The Redmond Rotary Club invites the public to attend their lunch meetings on July 10 and July 24. Meetings are from 12:15 p.m.-1:30 p.m. at the Redmond Marriott Town Center, 7401 164th Ave. NE.
Redmond’s Hartman Park, atop Education Hill, was the site of two unusual occurrences on Wednesday, June 25.
Two home-schooled teens from Redmond, Keren Stewart and Crystal Marshall, were awarded The Congressional Award Gold Medal, Congress’ highest honor for youth service, in Washington, D.C. on June 19.
On July 10, Aegis of Redmond and the Aegis Living Corporation are teaming up to host a special fundraising event to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association.
Celebrate your independence from dull, tasteless vegetables at the Fourth of July Weekend Farm Celebration at The South 47 Farm in Redmond.
The Redmond Police Explorers are painting curbside house numbers in and around the city this summer. Having a visible house number can speed up police and fire response in the event of an emergency.
According to AAA, for every pound of pressure your vehicle’s tires are low, fuel efficiency is reduced by as much as two percent.
A ban on the continuous chaining or tethering of dogs will be studied under a motion introduced earlier this week before the Metropolitan King County Council.
Monday, June 23
Eastside community members, political leaders and residents joined together at Bellevue City Hall on Wednesday to review the latest progress of the State Route 520 Bridge Replacement and HOV Project.
The open house gave the public a chance to view the current progress of the four key components associated with the project including: the proposed toll on the existing bridge, the pontoon construction, the design of the east side corridor and the proposed alternative plans for the west side corridor.
For the past 68 years, the Redmond Derby Days Summer Festival has been a vital part of summer in Redmond. This year, the festival will be held Saturday, July 12 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. at the Redmond City Hall Campus, 15670 NE 85th St.
Redmond-based Pacific Northwest Bridal is hosting its first annual Dream Wedding Giveaway in Washington State.
With the help of multiple vendors in the wedding industry, they have organized a complete wedding package valued at more than $50,000, to be awarded to one lucky couple.
Carsten Hansen, a senior at Lake Washington High School, is this year’s recipient of the Brian Gershon Environmental Leadership Award from the East Lake Washington Audubon Society (ELWAS).
On Sunday, June 29, Ann and John Lutz will open their residential garden to patrons of the Bellevue Philharmonic Orchestra’s Symphony of Gardens tour. Theirs is one of two Redmond homes for this year’s fundraising event. Three Kirkland gardens are also included.
The Alliance of Eastside Agencies (AEA), a professional membership organization of human service providers, held its fifth annual awards luncheon at Bear Creek Country Club earlier this month, to honor outstanding contributions to human services in East King County. The awards were designed to celebrate an elected official, a volunteer, a business, a staff member and a youth or youth organization. This year a legacy award was also given.
Amateur radio operators from the City of Redmond’s Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES), Microsoft’s “MicroHams” Amateur Radio Club, and the Redmond Top Key Contest Club will gather to set up radio communications equipment at Farrel-McWhirter Park on from 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 28 to 11 a.m. on Sunday, June 29 and test their communications capabilities during a simulated emergency exercise..
About 85 percent of this year’s 11th graders scheduled to graduate in 2009 have met state reading and writing standards required for graduation, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Terry Bergeson announced last week.
The help of the public is needed to find a driver who hit and seriously injured a jogger, then drove off without stopping.
The City of Redmond has rolled out a new Residential Green Permitting Pilot Program designed to streamline the permitting process.
