The dispute between nine homeowners, Puget Sound Energy and the City of Kirkland over the Juanita substation has turned from a battle of words into a lawsuit.
Coordination between four different groups resulted in a violet fugitive’s arrest on Mother’s Day.
Chester Marshall was captured at the Juanita Albertson’s thanks to a view tip generated by Washington’s Most Wanted. It is the 207th capture that the show has been involved.
Randall Barton has contributed a lot of time and energy to the City of Kirkland. He served on the Houghton Community Council, Kirkland City Council and was even elected mayor in 1990. But his biggest contribution brought an NFL franchise to Central Houghton and helped his alma matter, Northwest University (NU), prosper in a huge way.
The blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical round-up of all calls to the Kirkland Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police officers. The Kirkland Reporter Police Blotter is not intended to be representative of all police calls originating in Kirkland, which average about 1,000 per week.
In the hours after President Obama announced that Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, crowds spontaneously gathered in many cities to celebrate. People in Times Square, at the White House, on college campuses and all around the United States assembled to commemorate the killing. The jubilation was seen on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites as well.
Doris Munz Cooper was an outspoken member of the Kirkland community. From her days on the Houghton Community Council to her election as the first female mayor of Kirkland she always had an opinion. Cooper died on Friday at the age of 85.
The City of Kirkland is preparing to enter into a franchise agreement with the Woodinville Water District (WWD) that will bring the city nearly $200,000 during the next two years. But the agreement will come at a cost to 1,800 annexation residents. The rest of the annexation area that is covered by the Northshore Utility District (NUD) will also see a rate increase.
Election season is starting with candidates beginning to file for office and fund raising already underway for some Kirkland City Council candidates.
The blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical round-up of all calls to the Kirkland Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police officers. The Kirkland Reporter Police Blotter is not intended to be representative of all police calls originating in Kirkland, which average about 800 per week.
One of the largest real-estate sales in Kirkland’s history, Kilroy Realty purchased the Plaza at Yarrow Bay for $100.2 million on Thursday.
Susan Schwarz may have been the queen of her father’s heart, but it was her place as the queen of hearts in a deck of playing cards that may have led to finding her murderer 32 years after her death.
A Kirkland man has been charged with first-degree child molestation, accused of sexual contact with the 4-year-old daughter of a friend while babysitting the girl in Kent in 2004.
Kirkland resident Jayvone Jerome Blake was convicted of first-degree murder in a Snohomish County courtroom Monday in the shooting death of Marquise Brown in 2010.
The blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical round-up of all calls to the Kirkland Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police officers. The Kirkland Reporter Police Blotter is not intended to be representative of all police calls originating in Kirkland, which average about 1,000 per week.
There are several issues that have to be ironed out before annexation can take place on June 1. One of those matters could ultimately cost the City of Kirkland $144,000 a year – a bill the city had not planned on.
The Lake Washington Schools Foundation set its sights on the stars during its sixth annual “A Legacy for Learning” benefit luncheon at Juanita High School on Wednesday. The fund raiser, which drew more than 550 perspective donors who packed the school’s field house, featured keynote speaker, former astronaut Dr. Bonnie J. Dunbar.
Take some lumber, a little soil, seeds and add some caring members of the Kirkland community and a few more people will have access to fresh fruits and vegetables.
Not even rain can spoil Easter for many youngsters. Floppy-eared bunnies will be hiding eggs all over Kirkland this weekend and here are just some of the fun events for kids and families.
The blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical round-up of all calls to the Kirkland Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police officers. The Kirkland Reporter Police Blotter is not intended to be representative of all police calls originating in Kirkland, which average about 1,000 per week.
Many people’s first social recollections come from preschool. Learning their ABCs, to count, tie their shoes, making their first friends of the same age. For about 1,000 current and former Kirkland residents, those memories will forever live in the basement of Lake Washington High School in the classroom of Vicki Bundy – even after the building is torn down later this year.
