The police blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical round-up 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.
Wednesday, Jan. 19
Ten local businesses are holding a free Prenatal Women’s Fair Saturday afternoon at Discover Yoga in downtown Redmond.
The Bear Creek boys’ squad ran their record to 4-0 in Sea-Tac 2B league play on Saturday night with a 57-43 win over Evergreen Lutheran.
The Grizzlies took the lead early, taking a 32-17 advantage into halftime and never looked back.
The Redmond Historical Society has an opening for a volunteer board member.
This past holiday season, Redmond’s Cub Scout Pack 581 has seen to it that at least one platoon of soldiers in Afghanistan did not go without a few presents.
The City of Redmond invites you to provide feedback on the draft design for the Redmond Central Connector at a community meeting on Thursday, Jan. 27 from 6:30-8:30pm at Redmond City Hall, 15670 NE 85th Street.
The Redmond Senior Center (RSC) First Friday Coffee Chat on Feb. 4 from 10-11 a.m. will feature Teresa Kluver, Parks Operations Supervisor.
Kulver supervises the crews that maintain the flowers and shrubs in Redmond, is an arborist and an avid gardener on her own time. She will be on-hand to discuss the city’s parks operations and answer questions about gardens in general.
Students at The Bear Creek School performed “Love’s Labour’s Lost” by William Shakespeare at The Bear Creek School Cornerstone Theater last weekend.
King County voters will begin receiving their Special Election ballots and voters’ pamphlets this week. Only voters in districts with measures up for election will receive ballots, which will be mailed tomorrow. Printed voters’ pamphlets will be distributed only to voters in districts that requested a pamphlet. This election, voters’ pamphlets will be provided for the Lake Washington and Vashon Island School District measures. Voters in these districts will receive the pamphlets in the same envelope as their ballot.
Both basketball teams from The Bear Creek School remained undefeated in Sea-Tac B League play with road wins Thursday night as the boys’ team won in dramatic fashion and the girls’ team took home a blowout victory.
The Lake Washington School District (LWSD) has a growing space crisis.
In part a victim of its own success, more families and students want to go to our schools than the district has space. LWSD has already taken measures to use as efficiently as possible the classrooms and facilities it has now. Other low-cost alternatives to building additional space — like having students attend high schools in shifts over a longer school day —will have long-term impact to our students’ education, countless community activities, and the hard-earned district reputation.
You see the faces: A beautiful, wonderful child, born on Sept. 11, 2001, full of hope for the future when she could have been thinking the other way, gunned down by Jared Lee Loughner, who purchased his killing weapon from “Sportmans Warehouse” Tucson, Arizona.
Let us never forget her name, Christina Taylor Green, just 9 years old. If you have children or grandchildren it is so horrific it is hard to even comprehend such a senseless tragedy.
Thenos Dairy has been important to our family since we first relocated to this area in 1993.
Who is responsible for the driveway “modifications?”
This is completely nuts. Sorry to be so blunt, but I’m just getting right to the point.
They’ve barely finished counting the votes on I-1053 and already Gov. Chris Gregoire is trying to get out from under it’s restrictions. She now wants to change the operation of the state ferry system. It’s another case of the state ducking its responsibility and should be rejected by the Legislature.
With the ceremonial cutting of a gas hose, a new era in Redmond began.
With energy advocates, local officials and Redmond High School environmental students in attendance, the first Level II charging stations for electric vehicles opened today at Redmond City Hall.
Also on hand to address the audience was U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee, a longtime environmental advocate, a member of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and founder of the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC).
The police blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical round-up 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 Greater Redmond Chamber of Commerce annual awards event is Jan. 19 at Matts’ Rotisserie in Redmond Town Center, 16551 N.E. 74th St., from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Emily Dickinson-Explorer Elementary School presents “Just Another Day in Wonderland, The Story of Alice,” Jan. 21-22.
The public is invited to join the City of Redmond at the groundbreaking ceremony for Fire Station 17 in North Redmond on Thursday, Jan. 27 at 10 a.m.
Redmond-based ABODA Furnishings announced Monday that it is donating complete home furnishings to five of the families who have been forced to relocate as a result of the Sammamish Ridge fire.