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.
A group of fashion-forward women got “Carried Away” at a private screening of Sex & the City: The Movie on opening day, part of a breakfast benefit for Hopelink. Lincoln Square Cinemas buzzed with excitement as 240 people, most of them women, gathered to spend the morning with four of their closet friends: Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda.
Sheriff Sue Rahr has opened the Cedar River to recreation use.
A Bellevue physician has pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of controlled substances.
Judith Powers, of Bellevue, died on May 26, 2008 in Bellevue. She was 86.
