The Blotter is a summary of recent crimes and other law enforcement incidents in the city of Issaquah. All arrestees in the police blotter are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.
The city council on Tuesday signed off on an initiative to staff two additional full-time senior engineers and upgrade an existing environmental associate to full time.
Beginning this year, Issaquah city administrators will see lower pay for entry level colleagues and a reduction in the sick leave they can keep. In exchange, they’ll see a little more money in their health plan coffers and their union will be able to give input on business related to the city’s health plan.
Great Careers 2015 will take place 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. March 5 at Mary, Queen of Peace parish in Sammamish.
Not much new was said by Issaquah Mayor Fred Butler in his State of the City address Monday. From the Central Issaquah Plan, to the increasing business and operations tax, to Olde Town’s preservation, tourism promotion, transportation issues and the obligatory tributes to community pride, the talking points were nothing that hadn’t been repeated many times in the past year — some of them frequently in the first month of the new year alone.
But Monday’s speech marked the first time since the council began discussing transportation concurrency reform that a city official appealed directly to citizens to think about funding for transportation.
Should Sammamish citizens be able to write their own laws and approve them by popular vote? Sammamish officials hope to find out this spring.
If bid accepted by King County Elections, residents of the planned community will decide whether they want to be folded into the city on April 28.
Prosecutors are accusing King County sheriff’s deputy Daniel Murphy, 34, of threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend, who also works for the sheriff’s office.
The Downtown Issaquah Association will hold the first walk of its fourth season of Wine Walks this Friday, Feb. 6.
The King County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday that a deputy had been arrested in response to allegations of domestic violence and placed under criminal investigation for felony harassment.
“We hope to drive traffic at fair prices and generate repeat business,” General Manager Cliff Gehrett said.
All individuals in the police blotter are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.
The work, which won’t begin until May according to the city’s website, will consist of two major projects: The replacement of the street’s bridge and upgrades to the sidewalks and water main system. Construction on both will take place concurrently over the summer.
Friday morning, Issaquah High School students gathered on the mall outside Eagles Stadium to rally for the Seattle Seahawks’ upcoming Super Bowl XLIX against the New England Patriots.
The 20-acre three-building park is home to divisions of Microsoft and Costco, the latter of which began its lease in August. The office park is fully occupied by the two companies.
Though he said he would vote for the plan update, Councilmember Joshua Shaer warned that the city should avoid hastening into “a valley of walls and towers” without a plan to pay for future road projects.
As kids filed into the room Friday for their Martin Luther King Jr. Day assembly, 4-year-old Violet Spataro danced and spun across the makeshift stage in her bright red dress. She ran up to students she recognized, chatting and passing out high-fives as freely as candy on Halloween. For the better part of three years, Samantha Smith students have helped provide financial and moral support for Violet’s medical treatment for retinoblastoma, through their own chapter of Sparrow Clubs USA.
Are you the parent of a student in the third through eighth grade who struggles with writing?
Rest assured, your child isn’t the only one. Results from the 2011 National Assessment of Education Progress — the most recently published writing results from “The Nation’s Report Card” — showed that one-fifth of eighth- and twelfth-graders evaluated performed below federally recognized basic writing standards. Only one in four students in each group performed above a standard deemed “proficient.”
On Tuesday evening, the Issaquah City Council will vote on an updated transportation concurrency plan that was crafted to simplify the city’s work with developers and create new funding sources. But Issaquah staff have projected $304 million in infrastructure costs, largely around the site of the Central Issaquah Plan, through the year 2030. Of those costs, $191 million are unaccounted for, with no attached revenues in the proposed concurrency plan. $119 million of that come from anticipated traffic improvements alone.
Pine Lake Middle School administrators called police to campus for the second time in as many weeks to investigate a bomb threat found in a boys bathroom as the school day ended. The threat came on the heels of a similar incident Jan. 9 that forced administrators to evacuate the campus.
