With the school year about to end and cycling season in the offing, two events this weekend provide an opportunity for kids to learn a little bike safety while they have a lot of family fun.
An Optimist Club Bike Safety Fair will be 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at Issaquah Valley Elementary School, 555 N.W. Holly St. in Issaquah. A second fair takes place from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Lake Hills Elementary School, 14310 SE 12th St. in Bellevue.
The community gathered at Samena Swim and Recreation Club Friday to celebrate the grand opening of its new facility and commemorate the club’s 50th anniversary.
“This is the fifth and final phase of major construction that we’ve done here since the ‘90s, which is great because it allows us to kick off our 50th year,” said Tonya Swick, general manager of Samena, a non-profit, member-owned recreation club in the Lake Hills neighborhood that serves about 6,000 members.
Bellevue firefighters collected $10,751 during their Fill the Boot campaign to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Even with the approach of summer, financial assistance from Puget Sound Energy remains available through PSE’s HELP (Home Energy Lifeline Program) program to eligible customers in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties who need assistance paying their PSE electric and natural gas bills. Depending on income and household size, a qualified PSE customer can receive up to $750 in PSE utility-bill credits.
The ninth biennial Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition will feature more than 35 sculptures sited both indoors and out, and the artists who created them.
The event kicks off on Saturday, June 14 with hors d’oeuvres and live entertainment from 6-8 p.m. at Bellevue City Hall, 450 110th Ave. N.E.
The event is free and open to the public. People can start at City Hall and end at the Downtown Park to launch into a summer of sculpture.
A King County Sheriff’s deputy sits just beyond the turnstiles, which are beeping because someone didn’t have a key card. Behind the deputy is a chain-link cage, guarded by a fingerprint scanner. Fifty-nine security cameras are recording in the building’s eight security zones. All visitors are wearing badges. Most doors automatically shut in 30 seconds.
A celebration for a new kind of playground featuring frogs, orcas, sinking ships and even the Loch Ness Monster spouting and squirting water is set for Saturday, June 7, at Crossroads Community Park.
The Bellevue Police Department on Saturday will offer car owners a valuable tool against theft, free etching of vehicle identification numbers into windshields.
The Bellevue Planning Commission today will consider whether to support new regulations designed to limit the impacts of large new homes in existing neighborhoods. City staff will host an open house at City Hall about the regulations before the meeting.
When it comes to Bellevue’s pavement management program, the guiding philosophy is that it’s better to repave now than rebuild later.
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Sound Transit is asking residents throughout the region to take part in the most intensive public involvement effort the agency ever has undertaken. In addition to open houses around the region, community members can sound off on their views about mass transit through an online questionnaire and, for the first time, using touch-tone phones.
Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Robert E. Milam Jr., son of Rebecca Milam of Greenville, Texas and Robert E. Milam of Bellevue, departed on a scheduled deployment as part of the Peleliu Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) while assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Halsey homeported in San Diego.
Rebuilding Together Eastside is offering free home repairs to eligible homeowners including the elderly, disabled or families with young children.
The release last Thursday of a report by the Brookings Institution ranking the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metropolitan area as the sixth lowest in the nation in terms of per capita carbon emissions comes at a time when Bellevue has been aggressively working to reduce its carbon footprint, officials say.
Four students with developmental disabilities will make history June 13 when they step to the Bellevue Community College (BCC) commencement stage to receive Associate of Occupational and Life Skills (AOLS) degrees.
Starting today, TOP Food stores will provide free prenatal vitamins to anyone who has prescriptions for them. No insurance plan is required.
When BECU opened its Neighborhood Financial Center in downtown Bellevue on Thursday, May 29, it did so with a statement. The ribbon-cutting came with the presentation of a $10,000 to the Bellevue School District’s VIBES program.
Medina Detectives are currently investigating a residential burglary that occurred between Thursday May 22 and Monday May 26.
