Three months ago, the people of Issaquah opened their collective arms wide to welcome the homeless men and women of Tent City 4 to their new temporary home on the grounds of the Issaquah Community Church.
One of the ideas brought to light at the Task Force’s most recent meeting on April 13 was the creation of a center which would foster local startup businesses, a business “incubator” area of sorts.
The purpose of such an area would be to encourage entrepreneurship in the city, lending a hand to business development at a grassroots level.
Sammamish resident Frank Blau, photographer and nature buff, lead a group of locals on a walk around Beaver Lake Park on Saturday. The walk was part of the city’s “Sammamish Walks” series, designed to get more people out and into the Plateau’s remarkable parks and open spaces, and help them learn more about the area’s environment and its history.
The Boys and Girls Club of King County has been forced to temporarily shelve plans for a gymnasium at the new Recreation Center on the site of the old Sammamish Library.
Sammamish Girl Scout Troop 41938 is working hard on its April Food Drive, to benefit Northwest Harvest, the Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank, and Tent City 4.
In the past few years, more attention has been paid to the role that our roads and transportation networks play in how our cities feel and function. Town planners, engineers and residents, increasingly frustrated with how poorly thought out transportation systems now impact their day-to-day life, are beginning to understand transportation in a more holistic manner, and comprehending the flow-on effects to local business, recreation, and quality of living.
It’s a stunning spring afternoon, the best of the season so far, warm and fragrant. When I heard earlier this month that a lady by the name of Mary Pigott had decided to gift her sizable property, north of Pine Lake, to the City of Sammamish to be preserved as a community park, my first though was “I’ve got to see this place.”
Venus and her husband operated four market stalls together in the outskirts of Lusaka, Zambia.
After her husband’s death, a male relative seized the stalls from Venus, despite Zambian laws dictating that the property be shared equally among surviving relatives.
Ladies — looking to do something nice for the environment on Earth Day, April 24? How about a visit to the salon?
Bullying at school continues to ruin the lives of many young students all across America. For students who may be questioning their sexuality, or who are having a hard time coming to terms with the defined roles of their gender that society demands, life is a whole lot tougher.
The body repair outfit is now in the capable hands of Joshua Luna and James Guse, two locals with a strong background in the industry and a real passion to make a success of their first business.
The Sammamish City Council has rejected a King County plan for the maintenance and operation of Klahanie Park. But their unanimous vote at last week’s council meeting not to support the county’s Memorandum of Understanding which says Sammamish should take over responsibility for Klahanie Park, does not mean the end of their possible involvement in the future of the facility.
Three Issaquah youths have been arrested and charged with burglary after a purse was stolen from an unlocked house in the Talus neighborhood.
Issaquah High School spreads the love about their carpooling program, Liberty High keen to roll
With sore thumbs mended, and weary arms rested, the Sammamish branch of Kiwanis will now return to a regular schedule of guest speakers at their Wednesday morning breakfast meetings.
King County Councilmember Kathy Lambert told The Reporter last week the county had no plans to close the District Court it operates in Issaquah.
The Issaquah and Sammamish Interfaith Coalition, the volunteer team which organized Tent City’s stay, were overwhelmed by the local support – donations of food, clothing and domestic supplies, but also the eagerness to engage with the residents, to do what they could to improve conditions at Tent City and make that light at the end of the tunnel a little bigger.
The best high school athletes from all over the Eastside and the Puget Sound area gathered on the Plateau on Saturday for the annual Eastlake High School Invitational Track and Field Meet.
Thursday night was a big evening at Margaret Mead Elementary School in Sammamish, with hundreds of parents and local art lovers filling the school for its annual Art Gallery Night.
With two bald eagles looking down from their perch high in a nearby tree, Eastsiders young and old worked busily on Saturday to remove invasive plants and weeds from Timberlake Park in Issaquah.
