Eastside residents may have noticed a large airship gliding low above rooftops early on Wednesday morning. The green blimp, which carried the message “Costco: wholesale ocean destruction,” was part of a campaign by environmental advocates Greenpeace to draw attention to decimated fish species.
Just a few weeks ago he was idling in Triple A ball, hitting a respectable .280 for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre against such teams as the Pawtucket Red Sox, the Buffalo Bisons, and the Toledo Mud Hens.
The grocery store deal which Issaquah Highlands developer Port Blakely hopes will fill a nagging retail vacancy in the neighborhood may have hit a snag.
As the political jostling continues over how to preserve funding for county police, human services and public safety programs, King County Councilor Kathy Lambert met with Issaquah business and community leaders Tuesday morning to give her take on how best to address the county’s desperate financial situation.
While the seniors may have been getting all the attention at graduation ceremonies at Safeco Field and Key Arena, here in Issaquah there were smaller, but equally important, graduation ceremonies going on.
Go up to the new Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park any day of the week and you will see riders from all over Western Washington. Young and old, male and female, they come from Tacoma, Bellevue, West Seattle, and Bellingham, to use what is gathering a reputation as one of the best forested mountain bike parks in the state.
Sustainable Issaquah this week launched the Issaquah Sustainable Economy Initiative.
Twenty years ago, Jim Oswalt took his first job, at the fish counter of his local QFC. The young man had a passion for all things ocean – already a keen fishermen, working with fish just seemed to make sense.
Thanks to the magnificent setting, and the timely beginning of summer, Friday’s graduation ceremony will be a day the students will long remember.
With our state’s troubled education system likely to be a key issue in the upcoming election race for Washington’s 5th Legislative District, the Issaquah Valley Elementary School’s PTA will host a forum for the four leading candidates in October.
At the latest meeting of the Central Issaquah Plan (CIP) Advisory Task Force on Tuesday night, members laid out an ambitious blueprint for how they want the city to look and feel in 20, 30, or 50 years time.
Anyone traveling along Klahanie Boulevard in recent months will have noticed dozens of sawn off trees stumps and holes in the ground.
The removal of 179 trees was part of the Klahanie Homeowners Association’s (KHA) five year plan to re-landscape the boulevard.
Issaquah is a city known for preserving and honoring its colorful history. And nowhere is this more evident than during its annual Down Home Fourth of July and Heritage Day celebrations.
On the back of an almost 20 percent decrease in assessed home values, the people of Issaquah will pay an average of 2 percent less property tax than they did last year.
But in Sammamish, a similar fall in assessed values has been countered by an increase in school levy payments and the amount collected by the city to result in a marginal increase in taxes for 2010 – an average of $64 for the year.
The Issaquah Salmon Days Festival has been named 2010 Event Recycler of the Year by the Washington State Recycling Association.
The Issaquah Salmon Days Festival has been named 2010 Event Recycler of the Year by the Washington State Recycling Association.
In a time when society seems to be moving away from traditional magazines, papers and printed material, in favor of blogs, twitter feeds and websites, there is something nice and old school about a project in the works at Liberty High.
When Issaquah Highlands developer Port Blakely announced in August of last year that the Regal Entertainment Group would open a 14 screen, 64,000 square foot theater in the fledgling neighborhood, it was a timely piece of good news.
This Thursday, Kent Peterson will pedal down Front Street in Issaquah and out of town on his way to Banff, to line up for the 2010 Tour Divide.
Employees at Issaquah-based retailer Costco will start collecting voter signatures inside stores in support of an initiative to privatize liquor sales.
