Several ambitious Kirkland women met at the Baldwin home on Jan. 24, 1920.
The blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical round-up of all calls to the Kirkland Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police officers. The Kirkland Reporter Police Blotter is not intended to be representative of all police calls originating in Kirkland, which average about 800 per week.
The Kirkland Fire Department has initiate its Basic Life Support (BLS) Transport User Fee Program. The program was established to create a sustainable revenue source to support essential medical services and provides for the reimbursement to the city for the cost of an ambulance ride.
The Year of the Rabbit began with debates in Kirkland. Three Chinese students and their coach visited Northwest University on Feb. 3–6 as part of a debating tour of regional colleges and universities.
Joseph Wu, a senior at Lake Washington High School was named one of the Washington state winners of the 2010 Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement, a signature program of the Siemens Foundation administered by the College Board.
Initial numbers from the 2010 Census having to do with ethnicity and population were released last week.
Friends of FSH research announced that its Seventh Annual “FiSHing for a Cure” Gala raised $172,500.
Washington State University’s President’s Honor Roll for the 2010 fall semester includes the following students from Kirkland:
Zoe Silver, Class of 2014 at Skidmore College, earned highest honors for the fall semester. She is the daughter of Robert and Eva Silver of Kirkland.
Leanne McCallum of Kirkland spent January studying abroad through a special study program at Linfield College.
Áegis Lodge in Kirkland was presented with the Turn Around Community of the Year Award during EPIC 2011, the company’s annual meeting. This year the annual meeting featured guests Harry Belafonte, Carlos Santana, Ted Kennedy, Jr. and others sharing their wisdom and experience with all in attendance.
During the past month, Totem Lake Malls has thrived on the weekends. Finding parking has been more difficult than just driving to the front of the parking lot. The sounds of shoppers walking through the lower mall has replaced silence.
Áegis Lodge resident Richard Frank reached a milestone lifespan of 100 years on Jan. 8.
Frank’s father William and his mother Marie Gottbarth were both born in the U.S. and were of German background. His grandmother was from the Berlin area and his father from Bavaria. Frank was born in Louisville, Ky. on Jan. 8, 1911.
The long-awaited new Kirkland Transit Center opened to great fanfare Friday. Snohomish County Executive and Sound Transit Board Chair Aaron Reardon, King County Councilmember Jane Hague, all of the governing leaders for the City of Kirkland and about 100 guests were on hand for the ribbon cutting.
All Kirkland area Lake Washington School District schools are open Friday, Feb. 25. The schools will opperate on a normal…
The City of Kirkland Public Works road maintenance crews have been plowing priority streets since midnight and say that no streets have been closed in the city. The priority streets include those near Evergreen Hospital, significant arterials that to and from I-405, along with transit, schools and fire station routes.
For the second day in a row the Lake Washington School District will be closed. The difference between Thursday and Wednesday…
A long-time community neighborhood group in one of the areas slated for annexation by the City of Kirkland in June has come out in opposition to the proposed location of a new fire station.
Like many Finn Hill residents, Margaret Horne is vigilant about Big Finn Hill Park use as she walks through the forest every day with her dog.