Andrea Lachmann said she will stick to networking and let her husband, Brian, do the gambling when they attend next Saturday’s big fundraiser for The Greater Redmond Chamber of Commerce.
Redmond Police are looking for two men who robbed a small downtown grocery store at gunpoint last Saturday night.
As I sat in a sea of brake lights, trapped in traffic on State Route 520, plenty of thoughts danced through my head as my frustration mounted.
Greg Bruns returned to Redmond High School Friday night and left with a “bittersweet,” last-second win against his former coaching mate and longtime buddy.
Bruns, a former Redmond assistant girls’ basketball coach and first-year head coach at Skyline, guided the Spartans past the Mustangs, 45-44, in a thrilling 4A Kingco Crest Division contest.
Redmond Police have found no “firm suspects” in the brutal murder of Arpana Jinaga, a 24-year-old software engineer who was strangled to death at her Redmond apartment after a 2008 Halloween party, according to Lt. Doug Shepard.
The Bear Creek School boys’ basketball team is back on the court, ready to deliver some big-time results.
“Our theme this year is B.I.G.,” said fourth-year coach Scott Moe, who, last season, guided the Grizzlies to a school-best 24-3 record and fifth-place finish at the Class 2B state tournament. “We want to act big, live big, play big. … First we want to become brothers in God, that’s big. And then secondly, on the last day of the season come March 7, we want them to still think that basketball is great, again big.
“We want to be big in everything we do.”
The woman who was found murdered in her Redmond apartment recently moved to the area, loved to ride motorcycles and was a “shooting star,” according to her supervisor at a Bellevue software-development company.
A 27-year-old Bellevue man who worked at Microsoft faces 20 to 26 years in prison for impersonating a police officer to force a woman to have sex with him at an apartment in Redmond earlier this month.
The race for United States Representative in the First Congressional District features a Democratic incumbent who would rather wage war against global warming than Iraq and a Republican candidate who is preaching for fiscal responsibility and deregulating health care.
If you haven’t noticed, the Redmond Reporter has a new Web site and there are plenty of reasons to go there.
I am utterly disturbed and disgusted by the concentration-camp-like details that surfaced out of Carnation earlier this week.
I do not believe in capital punishment, but right now I am thinking that the electric chair might be the best place for Rebecca Long, a 44-year-old Carnation woman who allegedly starved and tortured her 14-year-old stepdaughter.
As the economic crunch continues to pressure our well-being, two things are clear.
By BILL CHRISTIANSON
Redmond Reporter
Redmond High’s fourth loss of the football season featured a record-breaking performance by Cameron Sandquist and a heart-breaking injury for John Martino.
Can you name our country’s biggest problem?
No, it’s not a decay of morals, though there probably is.
No, it’s not our economic inefficiencies or the crash of Wall Street.
No, it’s not a desensitizing to violence and other people’s tragedies as a result of the TV news or YouTube.
No, it’s not the boatloads of money and mounds of mud being thrown around in the name of votes. And it’s not even the near-complete corruption of our elected officials.
These are all huge issues we must fix, but the biggest problem facing our country is apathy.
We just don’t care.
What started out as a competition has turned into a partnership for Redmond High cross country teammates Sarah Lord and Devin McMahon.
I guess Sarah Palin is trying to steal my thunder.
Maureen Cardwell, a talented, thrill-seeking swimmer from Redmond High School, hopes to strike more gold this fall.
Cardwell, who is battling shoulder injuries, hopes to overcome her pain and pin down another pair of Class 4A state gold medals.
Many see the Labor Day weekend as the last days of summer. It’s the last long weekend before the dreary days of fall and winter. It’s the last paid holiday before Thanksgiving.
People of all factions gathered at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center Wednesday evening to remember Melissa Catherine Brooks Batten and take a stand against domestic violence.
Melissa Batten just wanted to move on with her life. Joseph Batten didn’t allow that to happen.
