Every day when the sun sets and rises, Sgt. Leonid Milkin will look out at the Pacific Sunset Maples in his yard and think of his family, gone too soon.
Dozens of volunteers gathered at Milkin’s Kirkland home on Thursday to pay a tribute to the veteran whose wife,
The blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical round-up of all…
Looking for a new way to engage residents and businesses in its budget process, the City of Kirkland has gone…
Concordia University in Portland, Ore. welcomed Kirkland residents Leslie Hanks and Oliver Wange this fall. Hanks was awarded a Dean’s…
AT&T recently donated $10,000 to the Lake Washington Schools Foundation to support expansion of its LINKS Mentoring Program with a…
KITH, a local non-profit that feeds low-income families weekly in Kirkland and helps the homeless transition to self-sufficiency, will have…
The Lake Washington College Foundation raised more than $70,000 to assist college students and faculty through their Pathways to Learning…
Teachers used to show kids pictures of what tennis courts looked like – that’s how little Marceil Whitney’s students knew about tennis when she started her non-profit organization nearly nine years ago.
Since then, Tennis Outreach Programs (TOPs), which offers low-cost tennis classes to under-served and at-risk Eastside youth, has familiarized thousands of youth with the sport.
Only two of this year’s six statewide initiatives passed and all of the measures translated in a strong anti-tax sentiment from Washingtonians. But the City of Kirkland may come out a winner thanks to its planning.
Initiatives 1100 and 1105, both to privatize liquor sales in the state of Washington, were defeated. While it was clear from first returns that 1105 would fail in a landslide 65-34 percent, 1100 held on until Nov. 3. It eventually went down to defeat 53-47 percent.
The failure of both measures has a direct impact on city budgets. For Kirkland, city planners adjusted the budget for passage of one or both of the measures.
There will be just one new face this legislative session from the 45th and 48th districts.
But two races have gone from upset, to a possible recount, to nearly over in the incumbent’s favor in one week as the newest vote totals on Tuesday afternoon were released.
State Rep. Roger Goodman holds a 1,196-vote lead against challenger Republican Kevin Haistings. The race for Pos. 1 in the 45th District is looking less likely for a recount with the difference being more than the state’s 150-vote threshold. In first returns, Haistings held a 3 percent lead on the incumbent Democrat, but as the week progressed Goodman turned the tide at 51.15-48.81.
Sgt. Leonid Milkin’s home, where the soldier’s wife, two boys and sister-in-law were brutally murdered in July 2006.
Sentenced to death in
The Kirkland Planning Commission will recommend that the Finn Hill neighborhood get six more months to decide on where or if to divide after annexation in June 2011, while coming to a decision on the division of the other three neighborhoods, the city announced on Friday. The council will review the Planning Commission’s recommendations as a part of its annual Comprehensive plan update during its December 7 meeting.
The City of Kirkland is noted as one of the most successful walkable suburbs in the U.S. in an Oct. 9 Wall Street Journal article. Cities were ranked by education levels, per capita income and travel time to work.
Scampers LLC, a daycamp for dogs, recently opened in Kirkland at 12532 N.E. 124th St. Scampers provides a clean, safe…
The Adopt-a-Family Program at Youth Eastside Services (YES) provides welcome economic relief to YES families by bringing community members together…
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.
Monday’s vote totals have been released by the King County Elections Office and the 45th and 48th legislative districts and the trend continues to be toward the incumbents.
This year’s crop of state-wide initiatives has helped to peak voter participation as King County expects a record number of mail-in ballots. But despite the high profile of many of the measures, only two of them were passing as of Tuesday night.
The Kirkland City Council officially recognized the Kirkland Dog Off-Leash Group (KDOG) as a non-profit 24-years ago – well, in dog years. But the long scamper to obtaining an off-leash dog park in Kirkland was officially fetched Monday night with unanimous approval from the council.