Film celebrating the words and wildlife of Harvey Manning to screen on KCTS
This week Sharon Solie was recognized for her efforts to encourage her students to read more at home, as the recipient of a Big Ideas grant from the Issaquah Schools Foundation (ISF).
An 18-year-old Sammamish man is being investigated by police as to why he was on the grounds of Eastlake High School with a balaclava, a knife, and a bottle of last week.
Drunk driving arrests in Sammamish more than tripled in 2009 compared to the previous year, the city’s Chief of Police Nate Elledge told the Sammamish Kiwanis Club at their breakfast meeting last week.
As all around them the effort to provide better health care for uninsured and underinsured Americans is hijacked by insurance companies and political scaremongering, a group of local medical professionals has given us a timely reminder of the core tenets of this oath.
“I just wanted to see how it would work,” said Ryan Wickham, talking to The Reporter about his wind turbine model. Perhaps without realizing it the fourth grade Cascade Ridge Elementary student had described just why people have for hundreds of years been drawn to what we now call science – which is really just a better understanding of our world and all the elements in it.
“Science does not know its debt to imagination,” said the American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Olympic aspirant, Rusty Pruden of Kirkland, will host a workshop next week on how to prepare for the Issaquah Triathlon to be held in June.
A new 7,000 square foot gymnasium, a recording studio, a teaching kitchen, and space for both seniors and teens to hang out are the main features of draft plans to turn the old Sammamish Library into a Recreation Center.
Annexing the 273 homes in the Aldarra/Montaine estates would bring in $75,000 a year for the City of Sammamish of about $75,000, according to revised figures from the city’s Finance Department.
With a Pavement Condition Index (PCI) of 71, the quality of Sammamish roads sits toward the lower end in a ranking of comparable cities, higher than Kirkland and Auburn, but below Redmond, Issaquah, Mukilteo, Newcastle and Olympia, which have PCI’s between 84 and 76.
As the Lake Washington School District (LWSD) awaits word from Olympia on how state funding for the district will change next year, school administrators have decided to postpone some of the public meetings which were planned for coming weeks to discuss the budget.
Two things were made clear at Beaver Lake Middle School (BLMS) on Friday night. The community of Beaver Lake is really into Bingo, and they are really supportive of their school.
Launching their own version of Band Aid, young musicians from all over the Issaquah School District put on a show on the Plateau on Thursday night to raise money for Red Cross’ efforts in Haiti.
The Sammamish City Council will continue their study of the barricades/connectivity issue at their regularly scheduled study session tonight, March 15.
Community spirit was the common bond that brought hundreds of Sammamish residents together for the 9th annual SAMMI Awards of Distinction at the Mary Queen of Peace church on Saturday evening.
Sammamish Girl Scout Troop 41938 continued their great program of community service, serving a delicious hot dinner to the residents of Tent City 4 in Issaquah recently.
Hearings examiner rules for communications company despite residents objection to 120 foot cell tower in their neighborhood.
Construction of “Phase 1B” of the East Lake Sammamish Parkway project will begin in April. It will widen and make seismic improvements to an existing bridge along the parkway and extend other road improvements about an eighth of a mile north of where the “Phase 1A” ended at Northeast 18th Place.
Intertwined with the issue of who will look after the park is the bigger issue of whether Klahanie will be annexed to Issaquah or Sammamish in the future, remain as a neighborhood of unincorporated King County, or incorporate itself to become the City of Klahanie.
