The Eastside’s largest 4th of July event in Bellevue Downtown Park will honor America’s birthday for the 23rd consecutive year, featuring a live performance by the Bellevue Youth Symphony Orchestra and a spectacular fireworks display. Here’s the lineup.
Dogs – and their people – will kick off the Fourth of July in Bellevue as the Acura of Bellevue Four on the 4th Dog Jog & Walk gets under way at 9 a.m. at Ashwood Park (adjacent to the Bellevue Regional Library, 1111 110th Ave. N.E.).
Aum Upadhyay of Bellevue’s Odle Middle School has continued his winning ways as a chemistry whiz. The seventh-grader, who won the state title in the You Be the Chemist Challenge on April 19, came in sixth in the national competition June 23 out of 25,000 students.
At 23 years and counting, Bellevue is host to the largest Fourth of July celebration on the Eastside – an undertaking organizers say they don’t take lightly.
The Bellevue School Board voted Tuesday night to pass a revised form of its emergency restraint policy for special needs students. The version of the policy passed Tuesday was extensively rewritten to specify the need for a clear and present danger to persons or property and exhaustively repeat the restraint methods’ status as a course of last resort.
The Bellevue Firefighters Community Support Foundation and the Parks & Community Services Department are hosting “Joy in July,” a toy and food drive throughout the month. Donations will be collected at all Bellevue fire station locations and City Hall.
Interim Bellevue Fire Chief Mark Risen is seeking a major investment in public safety from the City Council through a facilities master plan unveiled Monday, replacing a 1979 model as outdated as some of the fire stations around the city.
HikeAbout is an app detailing trails, flora and fauna in the Eastside and the Snoqualmie area. It was one of eight entries into the Verizon Innovative App Challenge to be recognized at the Technology Student Association conference in Washington, D.C., held the weekend of June 27.
Bellevue councilmembers voiced approval Monday of financing a $12.5 million renovation of the Meydenbauer Center to include technological upgrades in high demand by its users and modernizing the 20-year-old facility.
Republic Services has opened its new Customer Care Center in Bellevue. Residents and business owners can now drop off hard-to-recycle items at the center, located at 1600 127th Ave. N.E. Customer service hours are 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Saturday.
The Bellevue Strawberry Festival is in full swing at Crossroads Park and runs through the weekend. Come out for strawberries, strawberry shortcake, music, games, auto show, live performances and more.
Washington State Department of Transportation crews will, in addition to construction work on the highway, be conducting an annual inspection and maintenance work on the highway.
Two advisory votes will appear on the 2014 General Election ballot this fall.
People associated with the 520 Plaza building and office complex held a pizza party June 23 to protest plans by Sound Transit to buy the property for a maintenance facility.
Bellevue councilmembers continued their review of a draft Shoreline Management Program update on June 23. It was the seventh meeting at which the council considered the draft, including several in-depth policy discussion on issues identified as important to the Planning Commission and council.
Luna left his home on the 3000 block of 112th Ave. S.E. at 6 p.m. June 26 and has not returned or contacted his family. Police say he is known to walk around the southern area of west Bellevue.
Colorado may be ahead of Washington in regulated marijuana sales, but Bellevue Interim Police Chief Jim Montgomery said there is little to glean from law enforcement colleagues in the Rocky Mountain state about how to approach enforcement once pot shops start opening around the city.
Melissa Marie Dahl of Bellevue graduated with honors from Saint Mary’s College of California with a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science.
Tens of thousands of people will savor strawberries, view a marketplace of crafts and merchandise and enjoy day-long entertainment as Bellevue’s Strawberry Festival returns to Crossroads International Park this weekend.
A convicted sex offender committed for his sexually violent behavior pled guilty Thursday to the 1980 murder of a 19-year-old woman inside her Bellevue apartment, bringing a 34-year-old cold case to a close.