School starts Sept. 2 for the 20,000 students in the Lake Washington School District (LWSD), serving Redmond, Kirkland, Sammamish and a small part of Woodinville.
Relatively new LWSD Superintendent Dr. Chip Kimball, who replaced Don Saul in early 2007, knows he has challenging work cut out for him in the 2008-09 school year. Yet he’s excited about the steady march toward the district’s strategic goal of Vision 2020.
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Are you prepared for an earthquake? Major emergency? Or how about a wind storm that knocks your electricity out?
By the new year, King County residents will be able to weigh the nutritional value of their dine-out meals.
The 25th Annual National Night Out, a community crime prevention event, produced plenty of fun for Redmond neighbors — and two arrests.
A 10-year-old Redmond boy, Connor Burshears is hosting a lemonade stand and bake sale to benefit Camp Korey, Saturday, Aug. 9 from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Follow the signs to a multi-family garage sale on Union Hill Road, half a mile from Ames Lake Road. Many of the participating families will also donate proceeds from the garage sale to Connor’s fundraising project.
Allison Brucker said she is still recovering from last weekend’s Courage Classic Bicycle Tour, a three-day, 162-mile trek through three mountain passes.
King County now requires landlords in unincorporated areas to address drug crimes on their properties head-on instead of turning a blind eye.
Car prowlers caught: Police arrested two suspects who were car prowling near Northeast 76th Street and 185th Avenue Northeast at around 5:30 p.m.
Investigators believe the man who committed last month’s murder-suicide at a Redmond apartment complex wanted to carry out a much more obsessive, elaborate plan – possibly abduction.
Dentistry recently brought Dr. Alison Han of Redmond and Dr. Baptista Kwok to the heart of the Himalayas and its people, with the Himalayan Women and Children Foundation, founded by A.C. Sherpa.
Ruth Margaret Shrader of Redmond passed away Sunday, July 27 at Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue. She was 84.
Students from the Lake Washington and Issaquah School Districts, who are entering grades 8-12, are invited to Friends of Youth’s Challenge Day, either Wednesday, Aug. 20 or Thursday, Aug. 21 from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. The events takes place at Pine Lake Covenant Church in Sammamish. Cost is $25 per participant and includes lunch.
Redmond High School (RHS) had the first solar electric system of any school in King County. Since 2005, the six solar panels at RHS have created enough electricity to power about 60 homes for one day.
The King County Bar Association has rated nine candidates for judicial election as “exceptionally well qualified” for contested positions on the King County Superior and Washington State Supreme courts. An additional 12 judicial candidates appearing on the Aug. 19 primary ballot also received ratings from the organization.
A multi-million-dollar helicopter for crimefighting and search-and-rescue work has arrived in King County.
The new Guardian One, a Bell 407 model officially unveiled by the county’s Sheriff Department during a media event last Wednesday at Boeing Field in Seattle, has a spotlight, infrared equipment, mapping software, and a downlink so a ground-based command post can see what the pilot sees, officials said.
Parts of the Eastside could soon seem like the Wild, Wild West because of King County budget cuts that will significantly affect law enforcement.
Redmond’s Tom and Judy Briggs will again participate in the Puget Sound Garden Railway Society’s Public Days event called “Railroads through the Rhodies” Aug. 16-17.
More and more schools across the U.S. are incorporating chess as a way to increase their students’ academic performance.
