Bear Creek School students will perform William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” on Jan. 17 and 19.
Forterra, in partnership with Green Redmond, will host a Martin Luther King Jr. Day Restoration Event from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Jan. 21 at Grass Lawn Park, Westside Park and the Watershed Preserve.
Redmond’s Kelsey Dunn scored 15 points and Lauren Bogard added 11 points in the Mustangs’ 54-30 victory over Roosevelt on Wednesday.
In nonleague action, Redmond beat Kentridge, 56-39, on Jan. 5 behind Dunn’s 16 points.
The Mustangs will host Inglemoor at 6 p.m tonight.
• Redmond’s boys, who lost 56-35 to Roosevelt on Tuesday, will host Inglemoor at 7:30 p.m. tonight.
Katie Hill scored 11 points to lead Overlake to a 34-20 win over Northwest in 1A Emerald City League action on Tuesday.
Bear Creek’s girls defeated Seattle Lutheran, 55-24, on Tuesday night in 2B Sea-Tac League action behind 20 points from Kristina Engelstone and 13 points from Darryln McDonough.
Redmond brothers Phillip and Eric Klassen qualified for the 4A state diving meet with second- and third-place showings, respectively, at last Saturday’s meet at Juanita High.
Max Levy of Skyline took first with 516.20 points, followed by Phillip with 401.40 points and Eric with 388.85 points.
The 2013 legislative bell will ring on Monday as local legislators take the ring in Olympia to tackle a tough $900 million budget shortfall.
(In response to Lyndon Heywood’s letter, “Time for state action on guns,” Jan. 4.) While I abhor the recent gun violence and certainly don’t condone guns in the hands of criminals or those deemed not responsible for their actions, “gun control,” whatever that means, is not the answer.
Any crisis, whether it be an airplane crash from terrorists, automobile accident by a drunk driver or a mass shooting of innocent lives, often causes a public outcry to do something. Unfortunately, government action to do something often results in a loss of freedom to law-abiding citizens and no impact whatsoever on the problem being addressed.
Thank you for the recent invitation to become part of expanded discussions on your editorial pages. The Redmond Reporter’s print and online publications are an important community resource for sharing views on “issues of the day.”
When you see someone taking their young, healthy horse to an auction, do you think they know where it is going? Probably not. There is a good chance that horse will go to a slaughterhouse. Does that horse really deserve that fate?
On Wednesday, Lake Washington School District Superintendent Dr. Traci Pierce sent an email to the parents of students at Rosa Parks and Laura Ingalls Wilder elementary schools with her proposed temporary boundary change.
With the flu season in full-swing and three flu related deaths reported here in Snohomish County, doctors from Overlake Medical Center are currently offering walk-in flu vaccinations for $25.
The police blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical roundup of all calls to the Redmond Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police officers. The Redmond Reporter Police Blotter is not intended to be representative of all police calls originating in Redmond, which gets more than 500 calls (emergency and non-emergency) per week.
Sound Publishing, the state’s largest community news organization, today purchased the Seattle Weekly. Details of the purchase were not disclosed.
The police blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical roundup of all calls to the Redmond Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police officers. The Redmond Reporter Police Blotter is not intended to be representative of all police calls originating in Redmond, which gets more than 500 calls (emergency and non-emergency) per week.
CORE Theatrics will present its 2013 season opener, the Tony Award-winning musical “Urinetown The Musical.”
Washington ranked 36th from the top in state and local taxes paid per $1,000 of personal income in 2010, according to Census Bureau data published by the Washington State Department of Revenue.
LINKS (Looking Into the Needs of Kids and Schools) is a program of the Lake Washington School District (LWSD), with funding provided by the Lake Washington Schools Foundation. The program, which connects community volunteers with schools, needs lunch buddies, classroom helpers and academic mentors in Redmond, Kirkland and Sammamish schools in all grade levels.
To proactively prepare for coordination of critical health-care services in a disaster, hospitals, public health agencies and other health-care providers in King and Pierce counties have joined forces as the Northwest Healthcare Response Network (NWHRN).