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Kirkland off-leash dog park gets boost from Park...
By Kevin Opsahl • October 18, 2010 3:15 pm

If dogs were allowed in Kirkland City Hall for last week’s Park Board meeting, they would have left wagging their tails.
The Kirkland off-leash dog park proposal that has stalled for years was given unanimous approval by the Kirkland Park Board on Oct. 13.
The Park Board will present the off-leash area to the Kirkland City Council for a decision.

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Philip Wilson is challenging Deb Eddy in the 48th District.
48th District candidates Eddy, Wilson, debate budget, experience
By Kevin Opsahl • October 14, 2010 6:27 pm

Whoever is the next State House Representative in the 48th District is going to have to deal with big hurdles in Olympia – at least that’s one thing the candidates for position 2 can agree on.

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Gregg Bennett is challenging Rondey Tom in the 48th District.
Senate candidates for 48th District clash on budget,...
By Kevin Opsahl • October 13, 2010 4:25 pm

State Sen. Rodney Tom (D-Bellevue) and his colleagues in Washington’s 48th Legislative District – Rep. Ross Hunter (D-Bellevue) and Rep….

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Philip Wilson is challenging Deb Eddy in the 48th District.
48th District candidates debate budget, experience
By Kevin Opsahl • October 13, 2010 4:15 pm

Whoever is the next State House Representative in the 48th District is going to have to deal with big hurdles…

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Gregg Bennett is challenging Rondey Tom in the 48th District.
Senate candidates for 48th District clash on budget,...
By Kevin Opsahl • October 13, 2010 4:13 pm

Gregg Bennett has one question for his opponent in the race for the State Senator position in the 48th District: Who is Rodney Tom?
After flip-flopping on a number of issues –

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Diane Tebelius is challenging Ross Hunter in the 48th District.
Hunter and Tebelius vie for House seat
By Kevin Opsahl • October 13, 2010 4:07 pm

In the final stretch of a bitter campaign, former Federal Prosecutor and U.S. Attorney Diane Tebelius is gunning for Position…

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Diane Tebelius is challenging Ross Hunter in the 48th District.
Hunter and Tebelius vie for House seat
By Kevin Opsahl • October 13, 2010 4:06 pm

Trustee’s office -working as “a watchdog” for fraud and abuse in the bankruptcy-court system – and a year as chair of Washington’s Republican Party, The Seattle Times wrote in an endorsement.
She’s earned the endorsement of state Attorney General Rob McKenna and former U.S. Senator Slade Gorton and the Women of Washington organization.

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Maria Denny
Denny Fest! event brings out history of O.O....
By Kevin Opsahl • September 22, 2010 5:53 pm

It was almost 100 years ago that Helen Denny willed her husband’s Lake Washington estate to the City of Seattle to become a public park named in memory of him, Orion O. Denny.

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Keith Anderson
‘Deadliest Catch’ star seeks Kirkland community’s help to...
By Kevin Opsahl • September 15, 2010 12:27 pm

A star from the Discovery Channel’s hit reality series, “Deadliest Catch” will ask the Kirkland community for help to find his missing father during a benefit concert in Kirkland Sunday.

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Ex-Kirkland broker’s ‘toys’ up for auction
Ex-Kirkland broker’s ‘toys’ up for auction
By Kevin Opsahl • September 8, 2010 1:56 pm

For almost eight years, Kirkland investment broker Rhonda Breard led the life of a lie. While her clients saw her as a charming, intelligent broker who led them down the road to financial success, she was really using that money to fulfill her wildest dreams.
Breard was sentenced to six years in prison for mail fraud in U.S. District Court on Aug. 11. Exactly a month later, the big items she bought after cheating dozens of clients out of $12 million will go on sale at 11 a.m. Sept. 11 at the James G. Murphy Auction office on 18226 68th Avenue N.E., Kenmore.

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A kitten pauses in the free roaming room as shelter manager Jason Thompson talks about the adoption process at Meow Cat Rescue and Adoption in Kirkland on Tuesday. The shelter is currently overcrowded and needs families to adopt and foster a cat.
Running out of room | Overcrowded cat shelter...
By Kevin Opsahl • September 1, 2010 5:29 pm

Navin is just one of the many felines waiting for a home at MEOW Cat Rescue in Kirkland. The no-kill rescue destination has run out of room to shelter, and until the old kittens come out, the new ones cannot come in and have a chance at finding a new family, said manager Marilyn Hendrickson.

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This architectural rendering shows what Building F will look like once completed. Building F was the final building in the proposed Parkplace project that the DRB approved at its Aug. 30 meeting.
Kirkland Parkplace project moves forward as final building...
By Kevin Opsahl • September 1, 2010 5:11 pm

The new Kirkland Parkplace project is closer to becoming a reality.
The final building in the proposed Kirkland Parkplace redesign was given provisional approval by the Design Review Board (DRB) at their Aug. 30 meeting.

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Denny Creek was at the center of an investigation surrounding the death of two goats last week. The Department of Ecology has stated that it has no reason to believe that anything in the water had to do with the animals’ death.
Death of goats a mystery, tests on Denny...
By Kevin Opsahl • August 12, 2010 6:04 pm

What caused two goats to die in the Finn Hill neighborhood near 0.0 Denny Park more than a week ago…

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Rhonda Breard
Kirkland broker Rhonda Breard to spend nearly seven...
By Kevin Opsahl • August 11, 2010 6:07 pm

Kirkland Financial planner Rhonda Breard was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to six years and eight months in federal prison, meeting the prosecutors and defense attorney’s separate demands in the middle.

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Power outage leaves 1,800 without electricity in Kirkland
Power outage leaves 1,800 without electricity in Kirkland
By Kevin Opsahl • August 3, 2010 6:22 pm

A power outage in the Juanita neighborhood caused Juanita Drive Northeast to be closed to traffic in both directions for several hours on Saturday morning.

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Teddy
Go Dog, Go! Festival funds to benefit future...
By Kevin Opsahl • July 28, 2010 6:20 pm

It was a dog’s dream come true and more at the Go Dog, Go! Canine festival 2010 at Crestwoods Park in Kirkland Saturday. With 80 vendors, the all-day pooch fest provided fun activities for dogs – as well as their not-so-fuzzy owners.

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Leonid Milkin stands on his unfinished porch off the master bedroom during the rebuild of his Kirkland home on July 14.
Milkin memorial: Community rebuilds Kirkland home that was...
By Kevin Opsahl • July 16, 2010 7:44 pm

Sgt. Leonid Milkin looked out across Forbes Lake that backs out onto his brand new home on Slater Avenue on a bright Wednesday morning. He thought about the memories he had of his two sons playing and swimming there during the summer months.
“I can almost hear my kids laughing,” Milkin said.

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Bob Malte
New Evergreen CEO finds himself at home in...
By Kevin Opsahl • July 5, 2010 3:03 pm

When Robert Malte drove into Kirkland for the first time for an interview at Evergreen Hospital Medical Center, he thought…

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KPD Officer Patrick Gallagher believes that the new Text
KPD watching to see if drivers obey new...
By Kevin Opsahl • July 5, 2010 3:01 pm

The Kirkland Police Department (KPD) and the Washington State Patrol have been keeping a close eye on who’s using their…

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Conner Schierman formally sentenced by King Co. Judge
By Kevin Opsahl • May 28, 2010 2:07 pm

Four years after a Kirkland family was killed, it all came down to one moment for Leonid Milkin: The chance…

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Connor Schierman
Kirkland quadruple murderer Conner Schierman sentenced to death
By Kevin Opsahl • May 5, 2010 5:31 pm

A jury sentenced convicted quadruple murderer Conner Schierman to death by lethal injection Wednesday afternoon for killing a Kirkland family in 2006.
Schierman, who lived in Kirkland at the time and is originally from Bellevue, was convicted of the murderers of Olga Milkin, 28; her sons, Justin, 5 and Andrew, 3; and her sister, Lyubov Botvina, 24, who were killed nearly four years ago.

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Convicted quadruple murderer Conner Schierman speaks to jury
Convicted quadruple murderer Conner Schierman speaks to jury
By Kevin Opsahl • May 3, 2010 1:24 pm

Speaking slowly and dabbing his tears with a tissue, Kirkland resident Conner Schierman asked the jury Monday to spare his life for taking the lives of his four neighbors.
The 28 year-old took the stand at the end of a trial where the same jury will decide whether he gets life in prison with the possibility of parole or death by lethal injection.

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Bellevue native Conner Schierman
Convicted murderer of Kirkland family struggled with addiction,...
By Kevin Opsahl • April 27, 2010 5:57 pm

In the opening day of the penalty phase for convicted felon Conner Schierman,

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