It has only been in recent months that the term “green collar industry” has made its way into the American parlance, partly as a result of the federal and state government efforts to build a new industry that is more environmentally and fiscally viable than those currently in crisis.
I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving break. My wife and I spent the holiday in Georgia, visiting her brother, his wife and their school-aged daughter. It was super chilled – plenty of eating, snoozing, fishing and shooting the breeze.
This year’s Thanksgiving holiday will have had a special significance for CJ Kahler.
Sitting in his home on the shores of Pine Lake, all the things most people in this part of the world have to be thankful for are in bold relief.
Here are some more great art works that local students have been submitting as part of the Reflections Art program.
Congratulations to all the students at Maywood Middle School in Renton who over the past few weeks have dedicating much of their spare time to creative pursuits, such as drawing, painting and photography.
Frank and Maureen Santoni have made a beautiful home for themselves.
Their 30 year old timber house sits in a small clearing, close to Sammamish City Hall and 228th Avenue but sheltered from the noise of the street by tall Douglas Fir, Maple and Alder trees.
Nancy Morris is a brave woman.
There aren’t many moms who would willingly volunteer to have her house invaded by eight hungry and hyperactive young boys between the ages of 9 and 11 once a week.
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 fate of promised Transit Now initiative just the tip of the iceberg hiding bigger issue of Highlands plan.
Just months ago, Tor Bell said, this whole area was covered in 6 to 10 feet of blackberry bushes.
We are standing in the Lake Sammamish State Park, 100 yards from the Issaquah Creek which flows through it, water which has passed through the valley between Squak and Tiger Mountain on its way to emptying out in Lake Sammamish.
The saying goes, in order to comprehend your future, you need to understand your past.
If that is the case then the city of Sammamish is rudderless, and lost at sea.
Students at Challenger Elementary School have spent the last few weeks exploring the many possibilities of artists creation, as part…
Members of the City of Sammamish Planning Commission have identified what they feel are flaws in the city’s Town Center plan, and are considering suggesting the council make a number of significant changes to the plan and its regulations.
With the rain falling, and more predicted, Issaquah residents will be casting a wary eye on Issaquah Creek to see if we are headed for a repeat of the floods in January of this year.
For someone whose estimations of the future of humankind fluctuate wildly from forlorn and despairing to proud and hopeful, there is a lot that I like about the direction the science and business of development is taking.
After more than three hours of math, geography and history lessons, dealt out and received by Eastside Fire and Rescue (EFR) officials and Sammamish City Councilors at a Nov. 17 meeting at City Hall, it was a simple piece of logic offered by councilor Kathy Huckabay which most succinctly surmised what is becoming a significant problem for her city.
With regular advances in wireless technology, cities all over America are trying to come to terms with how their municipal codes can keep track with the demand for new infrastructure.
The City of Sammamish will consider a 1 percent property tax increase to offset an increase of more than $400,000 in fire and police contract fees.
New rules throw city a lifeline as planners figure how to make Town Center work for the environment.
With the dust settled and just about all votes counted in the 2009 King County General Election, residents of Issaquah and Sammamish now have a firm idea of the makeup of their city councils for the next two years.
