Reversing an earlier position, King County Executive Ron Sims last week announced his support for preserving the tracks along a 42-mile BNSF Railway corridor running through Kirkland from Snohomish to Renton.
Moments after accidentally crushing the center of a model ship it took him nearly a year to build, LEGO hobbyist Scott Fowler snapped out of it.
Farmers markets are close to opening. Here’s where to find them:
Restaurants under the McLeod project umbrella have already begun to clear out. Peruvian restaurant Mixtura left two weeks ago. Sasi’s Cafe plans to be out May 3. World of Wrapps is long gone. And Italian-inspired Calabria is looking for a new home. The four are making way for a four-story, 157,000-square-foot mixed-use office and retail building along Lake Street South between the Bank of America property and 2nd Avenue South that recently gained approval from the city.
The Madison House Retirement Community will host its 2nd Annual Red Hat Extravaganza tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Area Chapters of the Social Club will attend the event, which will feature a Fashion Show and a wide range of vendors from chocolate, cosmetics, jewelry and purses. Madison House expects 300 ladies over the age of 65 this year.
The Rotary Club of Kirkland announced its annual scholarship awards April 7.
Athletic rivalry between the ‘Stangs, Kangs and Wolves is nothing new. Now students from Redmond, Lake Washington and Eastlake High Schools are facing off in a very different field — the field of poetry. And there’s money at stake.
Kirkland neighborhoods will be busy in the coming weeks with the following public walks:
Ever wondered what your impact is on the environment? With an online community of two million members, Kirkland-based EarthLab.com might have the answer.
A Kirkland neighborhood taskforce is ready to present proposed safety improvements to Slater Avenue to residents who live along the corridor between N.E. 97th Street and N.E. 112th Place.
The results are in for the latest neighborhoods improvement projects under Kirkland’s popular Neighborhood Connections program.
The Seattle Seahawks aren’t leaving Kirkland for Renton just yet. Team president Tim Ruskell said the Seahawks will hold training camp at Northwest University for one more year because of uncertainty over the timetable with the team’s new facility in Renton.
The Police Log is available to the public, free of charge, during Kirkland Police Department business hours Monday through Friday. A small number of the calls to police on a weekly basis are excerpted in the Kirkland Courier-Reporter. These summaries are prefaced by a brief synopsis describing significant numbers or important types of calls received.
A disease that has killed off honeybees and devastated crop production along the West Coast has some Northwest farmers growing uneasy.
Annexation proponents “Citizens for One Kirkland” talked up reasons for the incorporation of their neighborhoods into the city at a community forum at Heritage Hall last Saturday.
Nearly 150 supporters of democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and a few curious onlookers gathered at an impromptu Saturday morning campaign rally in Marina Park.
