Councilmember Kevin Wallace said prior to the defeat of emergency legislation he proposed Monday night to temporarily ban recreational marijuana businesses in Bellevue that there will come a time when the city regrets letting marijuana in.
Bellevue Fire Chief Michael Eisner will end his 40-year career with the city of Bellevue and retire next month, his retirement coming just two month’s behind the city’s police chief’s.
Puget Sound Energy, Republic Services and BECU have signed on as key sponsors of the 2014 Bellevue Strawberry Festival.
Odle Middle School’s chess team took ninth place at United States Chess Federation’s Junior High Chess Championship, held the last weekend of April in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ravishing Women Show 2014 will be held from 2-8 p.m. May 11 at Newport High School. The event honors all women entrepreneurs who are making difference in society, family or even for themselves in all positive ways.
Hopelink has launched a campaign to help feed kids at the end of summer. The effort targets more than 16,000 kids in north and east King County who may not have a regular healthy, nutritious breakfast or lunch. During summer vacation, kids who are part of their school’s free and reduced-price meal programs no longer have access to that program.
Two Bellevue students have won scholarships in contest sponsored by the Eastside Republican Club. Applicants had to write on the topic, “How would a $15 per hour minimum wage affect jobs?”
The Bellevue College Foundation’s “Become Exceptional” Luncheon raised nearly $250,000 from over 650 guests, that will provide crucial support for the foundation’s many school and program activities that advance scholarships and academic programs for BC students.
Habitat for Humanity Seattle-King County will host a homebuyer information meeting at 1 p.m. May 10 at the Bellevue Regional Library to begin the process of selecting 14 income-qualified partner families to purchase homes through their affordable homeownership program.
For the first time, the legendary Triple XXX Root Beer in Issaquah will be the site of a car show strictly for plug-in electric vehicles.
Issaquah’s Eastside Baby Corner, which partners with WestSide Baby as Side by Side Northwest to provide free diapers to needy families, together received received one million diapers Tuesday, May 6, from the National Diaper Bank Network and Huggies.
Bellevue College has named Dr. Gita Bangera as dean of undergraduate research.
The Angel Care – Breast Cancer Foundation will hold its Wings of Courage 5K Walk from 9-11 a.m. on May 10 at Marymoor Park.
The year 1907 was memorable in England. The Women’s Suffrage movement took root, the first taxi cabs began to operate in London and New Zealand and Newfoundland both became dominions of the English crown. It was also when Bellevue resident Sylvia Wells-Henderson was born.
Bellevue seventh grader Aum Upadhyay took home first place in the You Be the Chemist Challenge on April 19. Upadhyay competed against more than 90 middle school students from 35 area schools across the state.
Kemper Freeman unveiled on Friday his company’s new multimillion dollar leasing center for the $1.2 billion Bellevue Collection expansion, anticipated to break ground in July with tenants to be filled by the time construction is complete.
The FBI Seattle Division, with the Bellevue police and fire departments, on Wednesday coordinated a training simulation of a terrorist attack at the Crossroads Bellevue Shopping Center. A large number of emergency vehicles were stationed outside the mall from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Amrita Ram, 16, was awarded — “Without hesitation,” judge Tanya Fraioli said — first place for Fresh Steps, a company working on the development of flooring that can generate supplemental electricity for high traffic buildings.
A new seven-story Marriott AC Hotel is being planned for downtown Bellevue. The proposed 110,000-square-foot facility includes 234 guest rooms and nearly 41,000 square feet of onsite valet parking for 106 vehicles.
Chinook Middle School staff will return to their home campus on Clyde Hill at the end of June, after operating out of the Ringdall Junior High campus in the Newport Hills neighborhood. In preparation of an anticipated influx of new students, administrators are asking the families of expected Chinook students — the campus serves students graduating from the Clyde Hill, Medina, Enatai and Woodridge elementary schools — to register between now and the end of June.