Arbor School plants pinwheels for world peace
September 28, 2010
From left, Arbor School students Hannah Munson, Golda Chessler, Braden Corcoran and Brenda Studdard plant their pinwheels Sept. 21 along 228th Avenue Southeast. Photo by Christopher Huber
New advisory class strives to foster school community
September 28, 2010
Scoreboard Sept. 29, 2010
September 28, 2010
Football
Skyline blows past Issaquah
September 28, 2010
Skyline’s Jordan Simone grabs a pass in the first quarter. Photo by Christopher Huber
Undefeated Eastlake golf drives past Skyline 194-212
September 28, 2010
Eastlake’s Li Wang shot even par. Photo by Christopher Huber
Sammamish nears deal to get a new recreation center
September 26, 2010
New: Sept. 26, 3:22 p.m.
Sammamish appears close to finalizing a contract with the Boys and Girls Club for the operation of a recreation center in the old library on the corner of 228th Avenue and Inglewood Hill Road.
The building, purchased by the city in 2009 for $3.4 million, will be leased to the Boys and Girls Club of King County for a dollar a year in exchange for the club providing after-school activities for teens, according to a briefing on the agreement by Parks Director Jessi Ricardson at the City Council’s Sept. 20 study session. Read more
Sammamish council makes more Town Center decisions
September 25, 2010
New: Sept. 25, 10:42 a.m.
With months of public comment behind them, the Sammamish City Council rolled up their sleeves and attempted make changes large and small to the Town Center development regulations.
Among the proposals considered at their Sept. 21 meeting were:
To lower the maximum height of buildings and include rooftop structures like chimneys, elevator shafts and air conditioning units in the height restrictions. The plan currently allows buildings up to six stories tall in the densest areas of Town Center. Councilman Tom Odell proposed that buildings be kept to 50 feet, including their rooftop structures. Read more
Sammamish begins barricade discussion with 32nd Street
September 24, 2010
New: Sept. 24, 1:47 p.m.
To remove or not to remove?
That was the debate at Sunny Hills Elementary Sept. 23 as dozens of neighbors from the south end of Pine Lake studied a series of maps the city had produced that predicted what traffic flow would look like if the city were to take down the Southeast 32nd Street barricade. Read more
Contractor kills deer, gets charged for it
September 23, 2010
New:Sept. 23, 2:43 p.m.
A landscaper working on the Southeast 20th Street construction project, who seems to bring a bow and arrow with him to work, will likely be charged with a misdemeanor for killing a deer with the weapon.
Police say the 46-year-old Arlington man shot a deer that was grazing in a vacant field south of Southeast 20th Street near 222nd Avenue at around 7:40 a.m. Sept. 21. The man did not retrieve the deer and went about his work for the day, according to a Sammamish Police report. Read more
County asking for sales tax increase
September 22, 2010
