Don’t tell 77-year-old Judy Wolcott that you’re depressed about getting older.The 39-year Woodridge resident overheard someone say that recently and, “I was just as fierce as I could be,” she said, lowering her eyebrows and crinkling her nose to make a ferocious face, as she recalled the conversation. “I said, ‘Don’t you ever say that again! Just think about the alternative!’ “
Thousands of innocent American citizens died on Sept. 11, 2001, and I think it’s completely reasonable that the United States deployed soldiers to the Middle East to try to get rid of the terrorists who plotted those attacks. But more than 10 years later, why are troops still there? For me, the question is personal.
Mike Pezoldt doesn’t seem to see the cobwebs, dirt, broken windows and garbage that have made the 1925 house at 9420 NE 5th St., near Clyde Hill, rather frightening. He sees the home where he grew up.
The downtown Bellevue super-block with a Barnes & Noble, a Mars Hill Church campus and short commercial buildings could be redeveloped, according to David Schooler, the president of the Bellevue-based Sterling Realty Organization, which owns the site.
About 1,700 local philanthropists raised $1.1 million for Redmond-based HopeLink, during a fundraiser lunch at the Meydenbauer Convention Center in downtown Bellevue on Monday, Oct. 15.
International Community Health Services will open a 5,000 square-foot clinic in the Crossroads area next year to specifically treat low-income and uninsured patients.
International Community Health Services will open a 5,000 square-foot clinic in the Crossroads area next year to treat low-income and uninsured patients.
Bellevue saw a notable increase in taxable retail sales and retail trade during the second quarter of 2012, compared with the same period in 2011, the state’s Department of Revenue reported Friday.
Panos Properties, LLC, based in Seattle, has purchased the Overlake Village Shopping Center for $18.2 million.
Stacy Cube, a Washington DC native who has worked in human resources for the past 10 years, saw her career start to suffer when her husband’s army job forced them to move every couple of years. So she enrolled in the radiology technology program Bellevue College, to learn skills she could use to find jobs more easily following the moves.
King County Metro Transit’s Route 218 buses will no longer make afternoon westbound stops at Bellevue’s Eastgate Freeway Station in Bellevue, as of Oct. 15.
State Rout 520 will be closed from Montlake Boulevard in Seattle to I-405 in Bellevue Oct. 19 at 11 p.m. through Oct. 21 at noon, to allow crews to work on the road.
A fire, late Tuesday, ruined a $2 million, 5,800-square-foot home in the 9000 block of Northeast 28th Street that was under construction, and just one month from completion.
The space in the Factoria Mall that has been closed to the public since Mervyns left six years ago will open again, Oct. 17, with a new retailer. Walmart.
Design review approval and building permits are in for a new 15 story hotel with 378 rooms, guest space, meeting space, a restaurant and parking in downtown Bellevue, according to Toni Pratt, a senior land use planner for the City of Bellevue.
Bellevue’s Chamber of Commerce named Republic Services the Eastside business of the year, and KidsQuest Children’s Museum the small business of the year, at the 2012 Bellevue Chamber Eastside Annual Dinner presented by Wells Fargo at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue.
Fossil Inc. has officially announced plans to open a new accessories store at the Bellevue Square Mall, Oct. 29. Fossil plans to host a housewarming Nov. 11 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. to introduce the brand.
Bellevue fire investigators suspect that a smoldering cigarette butt in a plastic container started fire that significantly damaged two Newcastle homes Saturday afternoon.
Bellevue saw a notable increase in taxable retail sales and retail trade during the second quarter of 2012, compared with the same period in 2011, the state’s department of revenue reported Friday.
Panos Properties, LLC, based in Greenlake, has purchased the Overlake Village Shopping Center for $18.2 million.
An unattended cooking fire at the Newport Hills Condominiums caused an estimated $200,000 in damage to one unit in the building Thursday evening.
Firefighters from several local departments spent nearly two hours containing a forest fire near the Newcastle Golf Club Tuesday evening.
More than 100 Bellevue homes, most in Bellevue’s Enatai and Surry Downs neighborhoods could be negatively impacted by a $60 million cost savings plan that the city council is currently considering. The city would take over and demolish dozens of houses, cut into the yards of dozens of others and block neighborhood access to more. The proposal would also take the light rail out of a trench next to the road, and put it at the same level with the road, which, some argue, would make it much noisier and uglier.
