Like all Americans of Irish descent (Fitzgerald), I look forward to celebrating St. Patrick’s Day each year. Hoisting a dark stout (or two, or three) over good food and socializing with agreeable company is something to enjoy.
With the closure of Juanita Bay Pharmacy, Kirkland is not just losing its only independent pharmacy but a level of service that many modern health providers can’t replicate.
Kirkland Police are investigating a drive-by-shooting that took place early Tuesday morning in the Evergreen Hill neighborhood.
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.
At the Capitol in Olympia, Kirkland resident Patty Dutt got to accept a posthumous award for her father, Seattle native James Campbell, one of the founding members of Western Washington’s Civil Air Patrol.
A letter from Lake Washington High School Principal Christina Thomas reveals that one of the main rationales behind removing the Kangs baseball team from Lee Johnson Field was to make things more fair for the girls softball team and address possible federal Title IX violations.
Potala Village, LLC has submitted a new plan for its project to the city of Kirkland after it failed in its efforts to have the State Supreme Court overturn a zoning change reducing the number of units on the property to less than half previously allowed.
A city of Kirkland study session looking to garner public comment on proposed solutions for parking downtown may have generated more questions than answers.
I am what might be known as a sucker for black and white films, especially film noir. There’s something about the emphasis on darkness and shadows, the heavy thick clouds of cigarette smoke hovering in the air as the characters rattle off the machine gun-speed dialogue in-between shots of whiskey that I can’t get enough of.
The city of Kirkland has filed an appeal with King County Superior Court after a Kirkland Municipal Court judge dismissed domestic assault charges against U.S. women’s soccer team player and Kirkland resident Hope Solo.
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.
Any doubt that playing high school baseball at Lee Johnson Field is a highly-cherished community tradition was removed Monday night at the Lake Washington School District Board meeting.
A California-based retail development company may be on the verged of purchasing the Totem Lake Malls property in Kirkland and begin a long-talked-about redevelopment put on hold by economic problems and legal troubles.
A 31-year-old Kirkland massage therapist has been charged with second degree rape for allegedly sexually assaulting a 26-year-old woman late last year.
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.
The Kirkland City Council voted to approve a proposed ban on most plastic bags at city businesses, despite a 2013 survey of residents that showed overwhelming opposition. The ban prohibits single-use plastic bags while allowing exemptions for plastic bags such as those used for transporting bulk food, hardware items, frozen foods, meats and newspapers. It also requires retail stores to charge customers at least a five cent fee for recyclable paper bags.
The proposal to toll Interstate 405 from Bellevue to Lynnwood received less than an enthused response at a public meeting held at Kirkland City Hall Feb. 19.
Four of the five Juanita High School football players charged with second-degree attempted rape pled not guilty at the King County Juvenile Court in Seattle Friday. The fifth defendant’s arraignment was moved to Monday because his attorney was not unavailable.
To be in a plane flown by Kirkland resident and retired Navy captain Philip Smiley is to be in good hands, and he now has the award to prove it.
The Kirkland City Council joined several other cities in Western Washington in adopting a plastic bag reduction policy ordinance on Feb. 17.
