The proposed annexation of the Ravenhill subdivision, comprised of the 21 homes near the northern boundary of the Plateau Golf and Country Club, was thrown into some doubt at Tuesday night’s study session of the City of Sammamish council.
City of Sammamish Planning Commissioner Stan Bump, who owns property in the proposed Town Center, has been advised by the city’s attorney to excuse himself from future Town Center deliberations.
To anyone passing by the Trossachs development on Saturday morning, the group of rain jacket-clad people digging around in the forested lots might not have looked like an event of great significance.
But that is was.
One of the great things about youth groups such as Scouts is the perspective it gives members regarding their place in the wider community and their role as citizens.
The students of Endeavour Elementary School on the Issaquah-Fall City Road have proven in that past that they have a keen interest in the arts and in being creative.
Four Eastside Catholic High School students were recognized for their remarkable contributions both in and out of the classroom, during a special meeting of the Rotary Club of Sammamish on Thursday morning.
As it embarks on what could be the most significant period of growth and development in its 10 year history, the City of Sammamish looks set to welcome a few new personalities onto its seven member council.
The only incumbent in a contested race for Issaquah City Council has survived to sit another term.
Cities jostle for millions in grant money as alternative energy projects present new opportunities for public and private.
In first few months of 2008, the Sammamish City Council, and the city’s planning commission put the final touches on a document that will guide development in the planned Town Center — the broader brushstrokes of what the city’s planners want the center to be.
The cities of Issaquah and Sammamish are lucky to have a number of very active Scouts groups in the area, a number of which regularly contribute to volunteer works and service projects.
As of 9 o’clock Tuesday night, the picture was beginning to emerge in a number of races for city council seats in Issaquah and Sammamish. In others, it was still too close to call.
As a young man, looking back at 30 and more frequently looking ahead and wondering what life might hold for me in the years to come, talking to Kathy Chrestensen was a wonderful lesson in what might be possible.
For the past few weeks, the walls of Grand Ridge Elementary School in the Issaquah Highlands has been transformed into a bright and vibrant art gallery, with students hanging their works as part of the Reflections Art Program.
In the past two years, the City of Issaquah’s Lodging Tax Advisory Committee (LTAC) has invested $40,000 in a new tourism web site, discoveroutsideseattle.com, which features a number of cities clustered around Interstate 90 and State Route 202, east of Seattle.
The City of Issaquah’s Lodging Tax Advisory Grant Committee (LTAC) doled out more than $100,000 to local tourism and promotion groups last Friday, money raised by a 1 percent tax on hotels and motels in the city.
A family that dresses up together, Trick or Treats together!
One of the touchstones of Eastside Catholic High School is instilling students with a sense of responsibility, and exposing them to the variety of needs in the wider community.
How will you be voting on Referendum 71? Do you think that lesbian and gay couples in committed relationships should have the same rights and protections as heterosexual couples?
I got a closer look at a few of our candidates for city council this week. What an unpleasant and demoralizing experience it was.
