Chuck Henry is serious about sustainability, but he had the crowd chuckling at the Washington State Technology Summit.
Can a Safeco Field hot dog stand perform miracles? St. John Vianney’s Jan Kline thinks so.
COMMUNITY BRIEFS
A former Cascadia Community College student who was found with more than 57 pounds of heroin and cocaine at his Kirkland home at the time of his arrest was last week sentenced to more than 13 years in prison.
Kirkland Police Department
Rising gas prices and fears of a recession are beginning to impact local car sales, Kirkland dealerships say.
Slashes in the King County budget may force Sheriff Sue Rahr to cut as many as 100 deputies from the county roster, she told members of the Sammamish Chamber of Commerce last week.
Aggressive enforcement of two downtown parking lots may have worked to keep spaces free and visitors moving along in the past, but no longer.
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Sound Transit, the City of Kirkland, and the Washington State Department of Transportation will host a special event this Saturday to celebrate the new Totem Lake freeway station, overpass and access ramps at N.E. 128th Street.
Katie Shankle, a ninth grader at Kamiakin junior high, was recently recognized at a Puget Sound Educational Service District Regional High School Art Show for an “outstanding achievement” in acrylic painting.
Ben Franklin students color for green cause
The 27th Annual Spring Plant Sale at Lake Washington Technical College (LWTC) will run consecutive weekends April 25 and 26 and again on May 2 and 3 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. all four days in the school’s west parking lot.
Jim Verdier and his WAVE Aquatics swimmers are on the fast track to success.
Kirkland Police Department
Nokia has become the latest high-tech giant to call downtown Kirkland home, last week announcing it will move into a 25,000-square-foot space at Parkplace sometime this summer.
Like tulips and daffodils heralding spring, rising prices typically mark the end of the real estate winter slumber — until this year.
Despite pressure and incentives from county and state officials, Kirkland’s Potential Annexation Area (PAA), which includes Kingsgate, Juanita and Finn Hill, will stay part of King County for now.
