Domestic violence increases
March 10, 2010
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The eagle has taken off
March 9, 2010
New: March 9, 5:29 p.m. A rescued bald eagle is flying free again after being released from the Ek family’s Pine Lake waterfront home March 9. The male eagle spent nearly a week recovering from a range of injuries at an aviary in Arlington, according to its rescuers, Tim Brown, of Snoqualmie, Dennis Brown, of Sammamish and various Pine Lake residents.
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Aldarra annexation runs into resistance
March 9, 2010
City Council elections likely to see campaign contribution cap
March 9, 2010
Great Waves win Sound Off
March 8, 2010
New: March 8, 1:15 p.m.
Great Waves, a Sammamish-based band, is the 2010 Sound Off winner. The band of mostly recent Skyline graduates and one Eastside Catholic graduate, won the underage-band event, put on by Experience Music Project and the Science Fiction Museum, March 6.
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Sammamish’s financial picture improves
March 7, 2010
New: March 7, 11:16 a.m.
In its first meeting March 2, the City Council’s finance committee reviewed promising signs that 2010 is shaping up to be better than 2009.
Finance Director Lyman Howard noted that property sale activity was up from last year, as was permit activity. The city issued 15 single-family permits in January, up from 5 in January 2009. In the same January-to-January comparison, remodels and additions were up — three in 2009 and 16 in 2010. Read more
Residents stick up for historic home
March 6, 2010
New: March 6, 3:33 p.m.
“Save the Reard-Freed House,” one sign read. “Strip malls and cul-de-sacs don’t have character,” another one read.
In the past, advocates of the city’s 115-year-old farmstead home have been adults and members of the preservationist group, the Sammamish Heritage Society. This time, many of the building’s would-be rescuers weren’t old enough to drive. Read more
Skyline cheer places 16th at national competition
March 5, 2010
The Skyline High School cheer squad is the 16th best small varsity co-ed team in the country.
The Spartans placed 16th of 38 schools after entering its first-ever national competition Feb. 11-15 in Orlando, Fla. The school’s non-tumbling team did not make the finals. Approximately 485 schools from around the United States participated in 18 categories at the UCA High School National Cheerleading Championships, which is televised on ESPN.
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2 Sammamish students advance to national Reflections
March 4, 2010
New: March 4, 2:29 p.m.
6 others earn awards at state judging
When Sunny Hills Elementary fourth-grader Jasmine Cheng sat down to practice piano one day last summer, she didn’t plan to create an award-winning composition. She had recently hiked to Twin Falls near North Bend with her family and was thinking about the beautiful waterfalls there, wondering how she could express it in music. Read more
Emergency medical response dominates firefighter workload
March 3, 2010
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