Standard & Poor’s announced on Monday that they have upgraded the City of Redmond’s credit rating from AA to AAA.
The mood was festive on the morning of Aug. 14, as Redmond Mayor John Marchione and City Council President Nancy McCormick broke ground for the Bear Creek Parkway expansion that will serve as a new “gateway to Redmond,” south of Cleveland Street and west of Leary Way.
No one likes to think about a major earthquake, flood, terrorist attack or any other catastrophe that might occur while our children are in school.
Rotary International Club, Redmond Rousers, recently awarded five scholarships to graduating seniors at Eastlake High School.
Starting in September, the Old Fire House Teen Center will be open Monday and Tuesday in addition to the current Wednesday through Saturday schedule.
The August 19 primary election is quickly approaching. Be sure you know the correct location of where you should go to vote.
Reckless driving: Redmond police officers saw a man driving a vehicle recklessly in the 9000 block of Avondale Road. After pulling into a Education Hill Apartment complex, the man ran away, leaving the keys in the ignition.
Redmond hasn’t really been known as a “college town.”
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.