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New: Sept. 2, 1:11 p.m.
The music, dancing and eating lingered late into the night Sept. 1 as thousands of families from around the Seattle area flocked to the Vedic Cultural Center along 228th Avenue Southeast. The line just to enter the temple stretched through the parking lot and down the sidewalk to the water district’s water tower.
Women hand out cakes at the altar in the Hare Krishna temple Sept. 1. Photo by Christopher Huber
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New: Sept. 1, 10:47 a.m.
While Sammamish’s Public Works department ruminates on the value of a road barricade that separates the Hidden Ridge and Timberline neighborhoods, it seems some residents have made their own decision.
A makeshift barricade stands in place of one destroyed by vandals. Photo by Caleb Heeringa
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A Sammamish man who went to jail last year for posing as a landlord and taking peoples’ rent deposits is charged with perpetrating the same scam again within months of being released.
Paul Bakovich, 37, is charged with four counts of second-degree theft for allegedly posting craigslist ads offering to rent out an apartment at the Saxony Apartments, in the 500 block of 225th Avenue Northeast.
Read moreWith school back in session, Sammamish’s drivers are once more sharing the road with buses carrying students to and from school.
Some drivers are more patient than others when driving behind buses.
Understanding bus safety rules would help everyone on the road, Issaquah School District Transportation Director Jo Porter said.
Read morePolice arrested an 18-year-old Sammamish man Aug. 11 who claimed to have been selling at least a pound of marijuana a day for the last couple years.
Sammamish police were tipped off to the alleged dealer by a local resident who said he had bought an ounce of marijuana from the suspect on several occasions. The tipster agreed to invite police along on the next purchase he made and told police what kind of car the suspect drives and where he keeps his pot.
Read moreA Sammamish administrator is a finalist for a leading position with the city of Newcastle.
Michael Sauerwein, director of administrative services for the city, is one of four finalists for Newcastle’s city manager position.
Sauerwein handles human resources matters and oversees Sammamish’s contracts with outside agencies, including police and fire services.
If hired, Sauerwein would replace John Starbard, who was fired from the position in January .
Sauerwein spent 11 years as the city manager in Sheridan, Ore., and earned a master’s degree in public affairs from the University of Oregon.
The other candidates for the job include Newcastle Interim City Manager Robert Wyman, former Puyallup Public Works Director Mark Hoppen and Garold Gillham, former city manager for the city of Lakeport, Calif.
Newcastle officials will likely make their decision within the next few weeks.
New: Aug. 30, 1:40 p.m.
Sammamish has a new cop on the beat.
Jessica Sullivan took over as administrative sergeant this summer, replacing Robert Baxter, who departed to take a job as a captain with King County Metro. Sullivan is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the department.
Read moreEric Oemig is a details guy.
He’s got a PowerPoint presentation tracking state funding to school districts across the state and will give you an earful on the ins and outs of the state’s education policy. He will wax poetic on the value of hard data in measuring what helps students succeed and which teachers aren’t helping.
The faces at the table and the exact numbers have changed, but the fundamental conflict is the same.
For the last two years, Eastside Fire & Rescue officials have pushed to add King County Fire District 27 – a rural, volunteer-heavy district covering Fall City – as a partner in the agency. Sammamish representatives, already concerned with the growing costs of its EFR bills, wonder what they’ll get in exchange for the tens of thousands more they might potentially pay if Fall City is added.
New: 1:30 p.m., Aug. 25
Sammamish really does have talent.
Cam Hodges, a 2008 Eastlake High School graduate and Sammamish native, played guitar and sang on more than 10 million televisions across the country Aug. 10 as a contestant on “America’s Got Talent.”
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