Three DECA students at Redmond High School (RHS) are applying the skills they’ve learned in class to the real world.
After years with a restaurant focused on local wines, the Redmond Marriott Town Center hotel at 7401 164th Ave. N.E. in Redmond Town Center is now home to a new steakhouse.
Friday may be Earth Day, but Christian Culbert has doing been doing his part for the planet for several weeks.
Since school started last September, the sixth-grader from Emily Dickinson Elementary/Explorer Community School in Redmond has biked to and from school every single day this year. Not even the long and wet winter has been enough to stop him — from sun to snow and everything Mother Nature has delivered in between, Christian has pedaled about a mile each way from home to school and back again.
But Christian isn’t the only student who has changed his behavior to be more environmentally friendly. All students at Dickinson/Explorer have been taking steps to be more green.
In honor of Earth Day, the school will have a Wetlands Week from April 25-29 in which students of all grades, along with staff, parents and community members, will work on preserving the wetlands located on the school grounds. Each class will have a one-hour block during the week to do one of the following tasks: Remove invasive plant species, prepare the soil or plant native plants.
The City of Redmond is offering residents the opportunity to learn more about various aspects of the local government through a six-week Citizen Academy.
In the aftermath of last month’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Tomoko Boerman wanted to do something to help those affected by the disaster.
On April 22, Redmond High School (RHS) DECA students will be holding a spring market and silent auction to raise money to attend the International Career Development Conference (ICDC) in Orlando, Fla. later this month.
The last decade has not been easy for Bill Burns, but a recent fitness kick has jump started a new career — and attitude.
Students at Horace Mann Elementary School on Education Hill are working hard to make the campus a greener place.
Local residents have a lot of questions about the high school Lake Washington School District (LWSD) is proposing to build across the street from Louisa May Alcott Elementary School in Redmond.
Tent City 4 is coming to Redmond.
Robin Brown is in a constant battle with Mother Nature.
As acting street operations supervisor for the City of Redmond, a lot of her job depends on weather conditions.
When Rupa Wickrama was at Gene Juarez a few years ago, she noticed many of her fellow salon goers using reusable grocery bags to carry their things.
With so many people working to reverse the aging process, Eileen Allen has accepted it and even embraced it.
At 92, she has written a book about growing old. “I Like Being Old,” which was written with Judith R. Starbuck and published about two years ago, is about Allen’s experiences in aging and how she has made the most of her later years.
From Colorado and Texas to Oregon and Washington, Chris Hoffmann has lived in several states.
And later this month, she will be adding one more to the list. After eight years with the Greater Redmond Chamber of Commerce the Portland, Ore. native is stepping down from her position as president and chief executive officer and retiring in Sarasota, Fla.
Beginning April 15, eight musical acts will battle it out in Redmond for gift certificates, studio time and prestige in the Old Fire House Teen Center’s (OFH) fifth annual Rockathon competition.
Redmond City Council decided to table the possibility of creating a trolley line from downtown Redmond to Woodinville’s winery district.
For anyone who enjoys Mexican cuisine but wants something besides traditional fare, the Redmond restaurant scene will soon offer diners another option.
Meaghan McConnell hasn’t always made the best choices.
She has done drugs, had a few outstanding warrants and has been in and out of jail.
Barbara Jensen, manager of Evergreen Hospital Medical Center’s preparedness programs at all of its locations, including Redmond, said if the area is hit with a major earthquake or other disaster, Evergreen is stocked with the proper supplies and equipment.
When Joyce Teshima heard about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the first thing she wanted to know was what area of the country was hit.
