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Articles by Peyton Whitely
Jody Orbits
1800s coverlet creates mystery for Eastside Thrift Shop...
By Peyton Whitely • November 28, 2011 7:01 pm

The fabric simply appeared in a donation one day, about in June, and now the Eastside Community Aid Thrift Shop is deeply involved in a mystery.

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The true value of journalism | Peyton Whitely
The true value of journalism | Peyton Whitely
By Peyton Whitely • October 26, 2011 4:22 pm

It seems like just a few weeks ago that I walked into an office in Kirkland and began working at the smallest newspaper I’d been with since graduating from college in the ‘60s.

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Jill Elaine Lane
Trial for alleged squatter of Kirkland mansion set...
By Peyton Whitely • October 14, 2011 9:32 pm

The next step in legal actions involving a trespassing charge brought against a woman accused of illegally occupying a multi-million-dollar Kirkland house has been set for November, with an anticipated trial date in December.

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Lovada Lambright tends to her giant pumpkin at the Gardens at Juanita Bay retirement community on Tuesday. The pumpkin has helped Lambright
‘Magic seed’ grows into giant pumpkin, new outlook...
By Peyton Whitely • October 12, 2011 7:55 pm

Depending on your age, you may not realize, or be able to accept, that eventually life will come to this: A pumpkin may become more important than the collapse of the Greek economy.

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Crews contain a small petroleum spill that caused a sheen on Lake Washington Sunday.
Crews contain diesel spill that caused sheen on...
By Peyton Whitely • October 10, 2011 2:11 pm

Investigators still are trying to determine the source of a small petroleum spill that caused a sheen on Lake Washington Sunday.

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A Potala Village development by Lobsang Dargey
Tibetan-themed development stirs disharmony amongst Kirkland residents
By Peyton Whitely • October 6, 2011 9:42 pm

As Kirkland struggles with another controversial development proposal, it finds itself essentially grappling with the ideas of one man.

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The Northshore Utility District offices in Kenmore display murals by an artist
City, utility officials and Kirkland residents at odds...
By Peyton Whitely • October 5, 2011 4:05 pm

Or maybe it’s because when Kirkland annexed some parts of what had been unincorporated King County last summer, it didn’t dig up all the water pipes and put in new ones.

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No charges filed against Kenmore driver who killed Kirkland bicyclist
No charges filed against Kenmore driver who killed...
By Peyton Whitely • October 5, 2011 2:52 pm

No charges will be brought against a driver who struck a bicyclist on Juanita Drive in July, an attorney for the victim’s family says.

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Signs denoting toll testing in progress over the westbound lanes of the SR 520 floating bridge in Medina on Sept. 23. Tolling is set to start in December
520 tolls: Good to go?
By Peyton Whitely • September 28, 2011 8:57 pm

When — or if — cashless tolling starts on the 520 Bridge in December, it will be one of the most audacious things that’s ever happened to state transportation.

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Dozens of Postal Service workers rallied at Congressman Dave Reichert's office on Mercer Island Tuesday to urge him to support legislation resolving post office financial problems.
Postal Service supporters rally to save beleaguered agency
By Peyton Whitely • September 28, 2011 4:21 pm

Now Postal Service employees, including some from Kirkland, are trying to rally support for measures that would preserve post-office operations and change perceptions about postal problems.

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A new video produced by the City of Kirkland takes on a somewhat flat subject - street paving - to make an interesting 7-minute-plus presentation about road repairs.
Road repairs, street preservation make cinematic debut in...
By Peyton Whitely • September 22, 2011 7:25 pm

Considering the topic, the treatment is pretty clever.

The subject is streets.

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Three Seattle men indicted on charges of burglarizing multiple Eastside businesses
Three Seattle men indicted on charges of burglarizing...
By Peyton Whitely • September 21, 2011 4:07 pm

A prosecution of an electronic theft ring that sometimes used a technique called “war-driving” to commit crimes on the Eastside and elsewhere has moved into the federal arena.

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Skimming ring accused of stealing $1 million centered in Kirkland
Skimming ring accused of stealing $1 million centered...
By Peyton Whitely • September 20, 2011 7:09 pm

A money-skimming crime group that federal investigators say took in more than $1 million was centered in Kirkland, according to filings in the case.

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Andy Wappler delivers a gloomy weather forecast - and some jokes - to the Kirkland Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday at The Woodmark Hotel.
Weatherman Wappler urges Kirkland residents, businesses to prepare...
By Peyton Whitely • September 13, 2011 5:10 pm

That’s the outlook for the weather season ahead delivered to the Kirkland Chamber of Commerce from someone who should know: Andy Wappler.

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Marc Patrick O'Leary
Alleged serial rapist charged in 2008 attack of...
By Peyton Whitely • September 13, 2011 7:39 pm

A Washington State driver’s license shown in photos of a woman being sexually assaulted played a crucial role in allowing charges to be filed in a 2008 Kirkland rape case, according to court documents.

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Jill Lane and her attorney
Alleged squatter of Kirkland mansion pleads not guilty...
By Peyton Whitely • September 13, 2011 3:26 pm

A woman accused of trespassing at a luxury home in Kirkland’s West-of-Market neighborhood last summer entered a plea of not guilty today at Kirkland Municipal Court.

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A Bellevue woman arrested in the summer of 2010 for allegedly squatting in this $3.2 million Kirkland mansion was charged with criminal trespassing on Aug. 23.
Alleged squatter of Kirkland mansion charged with criminal...
By Peyton Whitely • September 8, 2011 8:39 pm

A woman who was arrested at a luxury waterfront home in Kirkland’s West-of-Market neighborhood in the summer of 2010 has been charged with criminal trespassing.

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Kirkland stockbroker swindles clients of millions, feds say | Update
Kirkland stockbroker swindles clients of millions, feds say...
By Peyton Whitely • September 8, 2011 7:52 pm

The operator of a former Kirkland securities-brokerage firm was charged in both civil and criminal lawsuits Thursday with swindling clients out of millions of dollars and trying to hide the losses from the victims, who often were friends or relatives.

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Juanita Beach Park project faces $850,000 funding woes
Juanita Beach Park project faces $850,000 funding woes
By Peyton Whitely • September 8, 2011 6:25 pm

Kirkland is in another fiscal fight about Juanita Beach Park, this time over the possible need for as much as $850,000 more in funding.

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A view of the 520 bridge.
Lawsuit adds another hurdle to 520 bridge construction
By Peyton Whitely • September 8, 2011 5:59 pm

Thousands of drivers from Kirkland and other Eastside locations could be affected by a lawsuit filed in federal court in Seattle.

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Eastside faith communities to unite in Kirkland for 9/11 remembrance
Eastside faith communities to unite in Kirkland for...
By Peyton Whitely • September 7, 2011 7:07 pm

That’s a day of national commemoration, for one of the most apocalyptic events in American history, the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

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Newspaper boxes are lined up along the sidewalk at the Kirkland Post Office
Local Kirkland news at your fingertips | Peyton...
By Peyton Whitely • September 7, 2011 7:01 pm

If you’re reading this, you’re involved in a grand experiment, and you probably don’t even know it.

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Patricia Anders and her son
Lake Washington School District bell rings for 24,000...
By Peyton Whitely • September 6, 2011 2:29 pm

Cries of “Where’s first grade?” echoed over hundreds of kids and their parents as they arrived for the first day of the school year today at places like Rose Hill Elementary School.

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