Bill Rynd of Windermere Real Estate Northwest recently presented a check for $30,000 from the Windermere Foundation to Jan Dickerman, executive director of KITH.
Hopelink Kirkland/Northshore is joining Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) to give away free $50,000 term life insurance policies to benefit children of working families throughout King County.
Juror No. 1 from a seven-week rape trial told lawmakers the current system lets accused rapists abuse their victims in the courtroom by acting as their own attorneys and cross-examining rape victims, often for days.
State lawmakers should prohibit government from seizing private property and transferring it to developers in order to boost economic development and tax receipts, witnesses told the House Judiciary Committee recently.
Free tax assistance and preparation for taxpayers is available from AARP Tax-Aide from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Fridays, Feb. 4 through April 15 at the Peter Kirk Community Center, 352 Kirkland Avenue. Call 425-587-3360 to schedule an appointment.
Lake Washington Technical College (LWTC) and the Lake Washington Dental Hygienists’ Society are offering free dental care for low-income children from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 5 on LWTC’s Kirkland campus. The program helps celebrate February as National Children’s Dental Health Month.
Cupcake is the Cat of the Week in the Purrfect Pals Adoption Center inside the Kirkland Petco store.
Seventy volunteers, including many kids, helped clear almost half an acre of blackberry, holly and other invasive plants in Cotton Hill Park
during the Martin Luther King Day of Service event on Jan. 17.
As a Kirkland neighborhood leader, you may be interested in learning what it’s like working for the Kirkland Police Department (KPD).
King County Metro Transit is updating its bus service, beginning Saturday, Feb. 5. This includes several changes for buses serving Kirkland and the Eastside.
The Kirkland Police Department discovered a marijuana grow operation and several explosive devices while conducting a follow-up welfare check at a Kirkland residence early Thursday.
King County residents still have time to register to vote for the Feb. 8 Special Election. If you are not currently registered to vote in Washington, visit the King County Elections office by 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 31.
The Kirkland City Council unanimously adopted legislation at its Jan. 18 meeting that suspends transportation impact fees charged to a business when the use of an existing commercial building is changed.
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.
When co-owners Coventry Real Estate Advisors (an investment management company) and Developers Diversified Realty (a real estate management company) purchased the Totem Lake Malls in 2004, they intended to redevelop the site.
The joint agreement between the two companies was not the first – but is probably the last.
This is the third part of a five-part series on Totem Lake Malls, which started with the history and continued with the demise of the property. This week, the Reporter will profile the two companies, their joint agreement to redevelop retail property and take a look at the lawsuit that has stymied redevelopment efforts in Kirkland.
Beginning at 7 a.m. on Tuesday, the City of Kirkland Public Works Department and Frank Coluccio Construction Company will repair a broken watermain on N.E. 85th Street between 122nd Avenue N.E. and 124th Avenue N.E., in the Rose Hill Business District.
Don’t bother giving Brian Colella’s mother a gift – it may end up going to someone else.
So before Brian came home recently to visit from Korea where he teaches English, he thought about what to get for his mother, Terry.
“It’s kind of a joke that there’s no point in trying to give my mom a gift because she’ll just take it and put it into the auction,” said Brian, 23. “I’m looking around like what would be a good auction item to bring home because I know that she would rather have that than have something for herself.”
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.
Do you know of a person, business or organization who fosters the arts, culture and/or heritage of the Kirkland community?…