SAMMIs honor service
March 16, 2009
Sandra Hopper, a longtime music instructor who founded the Sammamish Music Club in 1992, won the 2009 SAMMI Arts Award. Hopper’s Club holds a piano festival every year. Photo by J.B. Wogan
Deb Sogge peered out into the audience from her well-lit podium in the Eastlake High School theater.
“Wow. I didn’t expect this. I lost my shoe on the way, I was so nervous,” Sogge said as she accepted the SAMMI Business Award March 14.
Sogge, a Sammamish resident for 25 years, is the new executive director of the Sammamish Chamber of Commerce. She asked people to keep their consumer spending as local as possible.
Sogge was one of 10 winners at the 2009 SAMMI Awards Ceremony. Read more
Skyline parade to remain on 228th
March 16, 2009
The parade will stay. Read more
City gets stimulated
March 16, 2009
Federal funding may allow Sammamish to work on the East Lake Sammamish Parkway further north than it had initially planned. File Photo
Sammamish is due to receive $3.5 million in federal stimulus funding for an extension of its East Lake Sammamish Parkway project.
The Puget Sound Regional Council announced March 12 which projects it had selected to receive funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Read more
Lake Washington schools to hike user fees in fall
March 16, 2009
The Lake Washington school board voted unanimously March 2 to charge groups using school facilities a new set of fees for supplies and energy usage. Read more
County appoints David Irons
March 16, 2009
David Irons
David Irons joined the King Conservation District Feb. 23 as a voting member of their five-person board of supervisors. Irons, who lives on Southeast 27th Street, has been a Sammamish resident for 20 years.
The district board has three elected positions, one of which opened up in January when one of its members, Matt Livengood, left for personal reasons. The board also has two appointed members. Read more
Challenger principal to move to new school
March 16, 2009
As the Issaquah School District gets ready to build a new school on the Sammamish Plateau, Challenger Elementary School students will bid farewell to Principal Robin Earl. Read more
Sammamish Forum
March 16, 2009
Road Kill
Do I understand correctly that the East Lake Sammamish Parkway roadwork will be in three phases? The first phase will take three years, the second phase four years and the third phase three years. Read more
Review editorial
March 16, 2009
Loss of P-I underscores fragility of newspapers
The death of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is not to be taken lightly. Newspaper readers who understand the role newspapers play in our democracy — as government watchdog, purveyor of information and rough draft of history — will be feeling the pain this week as the Puget Sound region mourns the loss of its oldest daily newspaper. Read more
Roll call
March 16, 2009
E2SSB 5688 – Expanding the rights and responsibilities of state registered domestic partners
Artists compete for commission to build city’s clock
March 16, 2009
obert Massa (left) shows a model of the clock he is proposing. Photo by J.B. Wogan
$100,000 clock would decorate Sammamish Commons
obert Massa (left) shows a model of the clock he is proposing. Photo by J.B. Wogan
The first clock had long, curved legs, honey bronze gears spilling out of its chest, and a face topped off by a contorted green cupola.
“My work tends to be kind of whimsical,” said sculptor Wayne Chabre, who called his sketch “Time Frame.”
Sammamish plans to erect a large clock as a work of public art. The exact location has not been determined, but its likely to be somewhere in the vicinity of City Hall. Read more
