At the Thursday meeting of the land and shore committee, members of the council took a look at progress on the Central Issaquah Plan and the status of the city’s remaining potential annexation areas.
Tent City 4’s resident camp adviser and leadership for governing organization SHARE/WHEEL, in statements to the Reporter and letters to state and county officials, have painted a picture of a county government that is wantonly deaf to the plight of its homeless. County officials and a contracted homelessness consultant tell a different story: One where SHARE/WHEEL is ignorant of government process at best and openly combative at worst.
The Issaquah School District reported in a letter to parents and staff Friday that students at Issaquah High School, Pacific Cascade Middle School and Grandridge Elementary School had been diagnosed with pertussis.
The film stars Robin Williams as a banker who finds himself obsessed with the dropped pass that caused Taft High School’s 1972 football team to lose a crosstown rivalry match against Bakersfield.
Police direct traffic at Front Street, after the truck was towed away
At Monday’s council work session, Council President Paul Winterstein established a timeline in which the council would revisit the survey March 24, submit proposals for goals a week later, hear staff responses in April and cement goals at the work session and council retreat in May and June, respectively.
The Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank is expanding its service footprint through two new services adapted from similar programs in neighboring organizations: a grocery delivery service for clients who can’t easily travel and a supplementary food program for grade school students on spring break.
On the evening of March 6, Sammamish drivers were treated to a strange sight: More than 100 children and teens burdened with backpacks, duffels and sleeping bags walking in a columnar mass north alongside 228th Avenue Southeast.
More than 200 students attended the Great Careers Conference at Mary Queen of Peace March 5. The conference–put on by the Issaquah School District, the Issaquah Schools Foundation, the Greater Issaquah Chamber of Commerce, the Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County and a number of other private and public partners–focused on vocations that don’t require a traditional four-year college degree.
The Issaquah Citizen Corps will host a nine-week emergency training course beginning March 18.
The Reporter reached out to the detectives’ division of the Issaquah Police Department to find out about the most recent spate of license plate thefts, what motivates this particular crime and what citizens can do to protect themselves.
Issaquah citizens are happy, but they may also be more isolated than the average American.
The Washington State Senate on Monday passed a $15 billion transportation package 27-22 for improvements and programs for highways, public transit and local roads. The package includes three improvement projects, totaling $126 million, for Issaquah’s portion of I-90. The package must pass the state House of Representatives to go into effect.
Just as the Issaquah School District completing funding of its current capital campaign, administrators are apparently preparing for another bond measure in 2016.
On March 10, financial firm Piper Jaffray will sell its fourth and final issue of bonds for the sale approved by Issaquah, Sammamish and Renton Highlands voters in 2012.
The police blotter represents officers’ account of crimes and incidents in Issaquah. All arrested persons are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.
The festival will take place Feb. 28 and March 1 at Cinebarre Issaquah 8.
The city of Issaquah will be doling out more than $160,000 in grants in 2015, divvied among 30 projects selected by the Arts Commission.
The morning of Feb. 19, shoppers were lined up out the door of the retail center on the corner of Southeast 56th Street and East Lake Sammamish Parkway.
Responding to a report of reckless driving, an officer contacted a man behind a building on the 5100 block of 220th Avenue Southeast. The man explained he had been trying to drift his car. He said he would never do it again and he left the area.
