King County wants to honor the very best students, teachers, staff, school volunteers, programs and even entire schools that are contributing to student environmental education and environmental protection, through the county’s Earth Heroes at School awards program. Nominations for the 2013 Earth Heroes at School are due on Feb. 23. Winners will be honored at an event featuring King County Executive Dow Constantine on April 25, during the county’s annual Earth Week celebration.
Discount Tire announced the opening of its new store located at 17977 N.E. 76th St. in Redmond.
James Mulvaney, store manager, has been with the company for 18 years.
The new Redmond Discount Tire store phone number is (425) 897-7411.
Téa Freedman-Susskind, 11, of Redmond received honorable mention in the September 2012 Cricket League poetry competition. For this contest, each entrant was asked to submit an original poem about striving toward a goal. Téa’s name appears in the Cricket League pages of the January 2013 Cricket magazine, and Téa’s poem “Climb Your Tree” is posted at www.cricketmagkids.com/contests.
AAA Travel will partner with Holland America Line for an informative seminar to reveal top travel trends and affordable luxuries available on board while traveling to destinations including Europe, the Caribbean, Asian, Alaska and more. The event will take place at 6 p.m. Feb. 5 at the Redmond AAA office, 7950 164th Ave. N.E., suite 102.
The Lake Washington School District (LWSD) and Lake Washington PTSA Council is sponsoring a parent-education program on cyber safety featuring Seattle attorney Charles Leitch.
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.
The Redmond Library board of trustees is seeking interested Redmond residents to volunteer for a board vacancy.
Kyle Sawtell rattled the nets with 30 points to lead Redmond to a 59-56 victory over rival Eastlake last night in 4A Kingco boys basketball action.
Brandon Lester led Eastlake with 18 points.
Redmond, which led 35-33 at halftime, is now 1-5 in league and Eastlake is 3-3.
On the girls’ side, Eastlake’s Maggie Douglas had 20 points to lead the Wolves to a 55-39 win over Redmond.
Lauren Bogard had 15 points for the Mustangs.
Redmond is now 1-5 in league while Eastlake is 4-2.
A firefighter keeps the bonfire going last Sunday evening at Redmond City Hall. About 2,000 people attended the centennial celebration.
While an editorial is suppose to take a pointed view – it is, after all, an opinion – too often the space we use isn’t enough to give a topic justice.
Kyle Sawtell poured in 17 points to lead Redmond to its first basketball victory of the season by a 67-52 count over Kennewick on Dec. 29. Conrad Croshaw added 13 points and Marshall Cherrington had 11.
Redmond (1-10 overall and 0-5 in league) will travel to Eastlake at 7:30 p.m. tonight.
The Redmond/Sammamish Boys & Girls Club has announced Sulynn Miao as its 2012 Youth of the Year.
A new health-conscious eatery is coming to town.
Hugo Tapia is planning on opening Hugo’s Restaurant — with its tagline “Live Healthy, Eat Organic” — sometime next week, he said this morning while standing in the kitchen at 8110 164th Ave. N.E.
The restaurant will be similar to the recently closed Graces 5 — which occupied the same space — but with some different recipes, Tapia said.
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.
The Redmond Police Department (RPD) will be presenting a free women’s personal safety class on at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 24 at the RPD Training Room, 8701 160th Ave. N.E.
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Boy Scout Troop 557 will be recycling Christmas trees again this year. Scouts will collect trees from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday and Sunday curbside in Redmond at Bear Creek Country Club and in the Trilogy, River Trail and Meadowview communities and a few other smaller neighborhoods.
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.
(In response to the Dec. 28 Reporter letter, “GOP stranglehold continues.”)
The reason Susan Rice withdrew from the job of secretary of state was the false testimony of the events in that took place in Benghazi this summer, that led to the death of four Americans.
Apparently Sen. Rodney Tom isn’t listening to his district’s voters, who last month chose Democrats to serve in the state Legislature, to be governor of Washington, and to be president of the United States. And although Tom was elected as a Democrat, he announced he will join the Republican minority in the state Senate to create a Minority Majority to control the floor and committee leadership of the Senate.