Former NASA astronaut Dr. Bonnie J. Dunbar discussed the United States space program and her five space-shuttle flights Friday morning at the Emerald Heights retirement community volunteer breakfast in Redmond.
Talk about ominous timing.
For a while now, we’ve been meaning to write a story about NAMI Eastside, the Redmond-based National Alliance on Mental Illness. This is the week, and while reporter Samantha Pak was meeting with NAMI representatives on Monday afternoon, the terrible news broke: actor and comedian Robin Williams, 63, had died of an apparent suicide in his Tiburon home in Marin County in northern California (on Tuesday, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office said Williams hanged himself).
When he’s not working as a senior program manager for Xbox Engineering Services on Microsoft’s Redmond campus, Vijay Garg can often be found cycling with his son, Amol.
Cheryl Manao and her son, Justin, sport the same facial expressions and inflection in their voices when reminiscing about when 2014 USA World Cup player DeAndre Yedlin honed his skills with the Redmond-based Crossfire Premier Soccer Club.
Recycling is easy.
It helps the environment and it makes you feel good that you’re contributing to something crucial each day.
I tip my cap to everyone who participates.
Microsoft chief executive officer Satya Nadella issued a memo to workers on Thursday morning, noting that the company will eliminate 18,000 jobs in the next year.
“The first step to building the right organization for our ambitions is to realign our workforce,” he wrote.
While Cameron Sandquist took a lunch break on Tuesday afternoon from his financial job in Stamford, Conn., he couldn’t help but relate his football career to his profession.
Nancy Wilson was the first one on stage to get the Heart music machine rolling.
She strutted in front of the packed Marymoor Park concert lawn on Tuesday night armed with her acoustic guitar and belted out a blues-infused jam that led into “Crazy on You” — and the crowd let out cheers that didn’t subside throughout the band’s two-hour set.
As Lynn Wood and Sandy Frazier look around their childhood Redmond home, memories of their parents come flooding back to them.
On one wall, there’s a purple ribbon that Joan Kinger received at a fair for baking. Her daughters say their mother also earned copious first-place blue ribbons for baking and canning during her lifetime.
What’s your legacy going to be?
When I was younger, I often wondered what people thought about me. I still do sometimes, but not as much. I figure that I am who I am, I do my best each day and go to sleep at night knowing that I accomplished a few good things at work and in life.
It’s a hometown show for Heart, and the band and its fans are probably chomping at the bit like a barracuda in the midst of a feeding frenzy.
Cameron Akker and Jazmin Diebler reach out and slap each other a high-five.
One week prior to their Redmond High School (RHS) graduation, the senior standouts are still celebrating something that happened three years ago. As sophomores, they were part of a group that pulled some all-nighters to prepare for a presentation about the history and literature of the Middle East. They nailed an A in a class that was tough to earn that top grade.
Two months ago, burglars broke into the backroom of The Redmond Mac Store and stole approximately 16 MacBook Pro laptops worth about $25,000.
Jonny Magee had a full plate of events and then some at the 2B state track and field meet last weekend at Eastern Washington University in Cheney.
Keri Hart used to ride her horse to Redmond High School (RHS) on Mustang Days.
During the rest of the school year, she drove a 1962 Volkswagen six miles from her home to school.
On May 29, Hart — who was part of the first RHS sophomore class in 1964 — returned to the school and helped celebrate its 50th anniversary with fellow graduates and teachers from the old days and current era.
It’s all about family.
Heidi May smiles when she thinks about her son Joseph Norris. Ever since the day the Redmond resident decided to have a mastectomy after doctors located cancer in three more places following her lumpectomy, Norris has worn a pink breast-cancer awareness bracelet around one of his wrists.
While talking about Redmond High’s epic fastpitch game the following morning, coach Parris Mamon seemed exhausted.
Redmond High was close to wrapping up a spot in the 4A state baseball tournament, but Edmonds-Woodway High wouldn’t fold on Monday in a bi-district game at home.
Eleven Redmond mothers received a permit today to hold a rally on Sunday in the City Hall commons to pray for the 276 Nigerian girls who were abducted from their school in Chibok by Islamic extremists on April 14. According to Associated Press stories, the girls are reportedly set to be sold into marriage to militants for $12 each.
A 54-year-old Redmond woman has been charged with assault in the first degree — domestic violence for reportedly stabbing her 66-year-old husband on the morning of April 28, according to King County Superior Court documents.
