Preston Isom, a 2011 graduate of Issaquah High School, was named AP Scholar by The College Board’s Advanced Placement Program.
Tuesday is the deadline to have a ballot postmarked or returned to an official ballot drop-off site. A ballot drop-off site in Issaquah is located at Issaquah City Hall, 130 East Sunset Way.
Skyline used another stellar offensive performance Friday to dominate Monroe, 59-21, and advance to the first round of the 4A state playoffs.
When faced with the decision to buy a fourth car for his teens or start riding his bike to work, Paul Winterstein realized he needed to lead by example.
The 50-year-old rides to Redmond twice a week, pumping up Squak Mountain on his return home. He’s an outdoorsman by heart with a human services bend.
“I have moss growing on my feet,” he said with a laugh.
Winterstein is running unopposed in the Nov. 8 General election for John Traeger’s seat on Issaquah City Council.
Sen. Cheryl Pflug, R-Maple Valley, is inviting area students ages 14 to 16 to apply to become Senate pages during the upcoming legislative session in Olympia, which runs for 60 days starting Jan. 9.
The Cascade Land Conservancy, the leading land conservation group in the state, announced that it was changing its name to Forterra Tuesday.
Swedish Hospital Issaquah delivered its first baby Tuesday, marking the opening of inpatient care.
The new baby, Liliana Yozelin, was a healthy 8-pounds and 20-inches long. She’s the second child born to Issaquah’s Zulma Gutierrez-Tiznado and Francisco Javier Rodriguez.
Eastside Baby Corner announced its keynote speaker for its annual free luncheon Nov. 14.
Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna would continue his national fight against human trafficking if elected governor in 2012.
Highlighting his role in a recent national attorneys general effort, he spoke at the Issaquah Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday on non-profit and civic leadership Wednesday.
Japanese American World World II veterans from Washington were given the highest civilian award in the U.S. in Washington D.C., today. The recipients included Issaquah residents Frank T. Matsuda and Roy H. Inui. Others honored hailed from Bellevue, Bothell, Edmonds, Friday Harbor, Gig Harbor, Issaquah, Kent, Seattle, Shelton, Silverdale, Spokane and Vancouver.
This week’s police blotter for Issaquah and Sammamish
Here’s a quick glance at this week’s state-qualifying playoff games for the four area football teams.
Slides of Bandera Mountain consumed in flame click in and out of a projector in the basement of a Sammamish home.
A picture of a man tipped over with gear, a windsock draped over his shoulder, pops up on the screen.
While Ben Harrison, now 86, had plenty of equipment, he still fought the 1958 fire in a button down, sleeves rolled above his elbows.
The fire blazed a week and a half, scorching six miles along the I-90 corridor. It was another three months and a second swell of fire, before the U.S. Forest Service put out the flames.
An Eastside non-profit is taking donations for a homeless Harvest Festival Nov. 19.
Swedish Hospital technicians in Seattle painted a pumpkin using their surgery robot to celebrate Halloween.
Police are still looking for the suspect in an Issaquah bank robbery Friday.
The white, 20-something man was wearing a dark jacket with white stripes down the sleeves and a gray baseball hat.
This the third of three questions posed to two candidates running for the only challenged seat on Issaquah City Council this November.
The following information was compiled from City of Issaquah and City of Sammamish police reports:
Police visited 15 homes scattered throughout Sammamish after 10 p.m., Oct. 19-20, after the owners had left their garage doors open.
The officers warned the residents that there have been several recent burglaries through open garage doors.
The officers had done the same check the week before, and found 15 more homes with garage doors wide open.
Once a corporate lawyer, Nancy Whitten is still surprised that it was the environment that first pulled her into Sammamish politics.
After eight years in Position 4 on the City Council, she gave it up this year to challenge Kathy Richardson for Position 2.
Spurred on by opposition from an established Issaquah hiking group, mountain bikers overwhelmed a park board meeting Monday night to ask for more trail.
It was a spectacle for the board, which is often so scarcely attended it uses a historic farmhouse for its meetings.