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    Articles by Jake Lynch
    Annex request in Sammamish adds to issues with fire service
    Annex request in Sammamish adds to issues with...
    By Jake Lynch • November 12, 2009 6:45 pm

    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.

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    Accusation made that Planning Commissioner Bump received special treatment on Town Center zone
    Accusation made that Planning Commissioner Bump received special...
    By Jake Lynch • November 10, 2009 8:42 pm

    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.

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    Washington Native Plant Steward Veronica Muskheli packs a fern into a plastic pot during the first ever City of Sammamish-sponsored native plant salvage in the Trossachs development on Saturday. The event was a significant step toward encouraging sustainable land use and restoring native environments in the city.
    Developer contributes to ecological restoration project in Sammamish
    By Jake Lynch • November 9, 2009 8:16 pm

    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.

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    Girl Scout Troop 41940
    Girl Scouts consider the ‘Power of One.’
    By Jake Lynch • November 9, 2009 1:35 pm

    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.

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    Endeavour Elementary School Principal Kathy Connally said she was very proud that her students managed to submit entries in every discipline - from painting
    The Jaguars get their claws into art
    By Jake Lynch • November 6, 2009 6:05 pm

    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.

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    Eastside Catholic High School students Ryan Gillespie
    ‘Industrious, determined, insightful, inquisitive’ – Rotary praises remarkable...
    By Jake Lynch • November 5, 2009 6:31 pm

    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.

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    Council makes way for new faces
    Council makes way for new faces
    By Jake Lynch • November 5, 2009 3:03 pm

    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.

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    With the election almost over… two new faces to join Issaquah City Council
    With the election almost over… two new faces...
    By Jake Lynch • November 5, 2009 3:02 pm

    The only incumbent in a contested race for Issaquah City Council has survived to sit another term.

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    Sammamish mayor ‘charged up’
    Sammamish mayor ‘charged up’
    By Jake Lynch • November 5, 2009 11:54 am

    Cities jostle for millions in grant money as alternative energy projects present new opportunities for public and private.

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    The small group of landowners raised more than $80
    Tired of the freeze, landowners create own Town...
    By Jake Lynch • November 5, 2009 2:20 pm

    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.

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    David Byrne (pictured) and Alex Bahm completed trail work at Timberlake Park as part of their Eagle Scout projects.
    Eastside cities benefit from the drive and generosity...
    By Jake Lynch • November 5, 2009 2:05 pm

    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.

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    Election: McCarry, Marts, almost home
    Election: McCarry, Marts, almost home
    By Jake Lynch • November 4, 2009 11:32 am

    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.

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    Mt Rainier became familiar terrain for Robert and Kathy Chrestensen
    Film celebrating the words and wildlife of Harvey...
    By Jake Lynch • November 3, 2009 5:37 pm

    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.

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    This popular photograph by Grand Ridge student Sid Thiagarajan was one of the many fantastic works on display as part of the school's Reflections Art Program.
    Grand Ridge students explore the beauty of art
    By Jake Lynch • November 3, 2009 5:02 pm

    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.

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    Issaquah featured in new tourism web site
    Issaquah featured in new tourism web site
    By Jake Lynch • November 3, 2009 1:17 pm

    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.

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    Despite being renowned as one of Issaquah's most successful tourist initiatives
    Tourism grants go to familiar faces as city...
    By Jake Lynch • November 3, 2009 1:15 pm

    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.

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    It was great to see Mum and Dad
    Streets turn weird and wonderful for Halloween tradition
    By Jake Lynch • November 2, 2009 5:12 pm

    A family that dresses up together, Trick or Treats together!

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    At Providence Marianwood senior center in Sammamish one group of students
    Eastside students serve community
    By Jake Lynch • October 30, 2009 2:27 pm

    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.

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    Sammamish City Council Candidate Q and A – October 30
    Sammamish City Council Candidate Q and A –...
    By Jake Lynch • October 30, 2009 2:19 pm

    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?

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    Humans, please
    Humans, please
    By Jake Lynch • October 29, 2009 6:30 pm

    I got a closer look at a few of our candidates for city council this week. What an unpleasant and demoralizing experience it was.

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