Holding a red streamer of crepe paper high above the Bellevue City Council chamber room Monday night, Renay Bennett, joined by two neighbors, showcased the 30 foot buffer proposed by Sound Transit for the space between the East Link line and private residences.
Imagine spending the night in your car with your parents and siblings; doing homework without a desk; or having your school peers ask why you’d worn the same shirt every day for the past week.
Just as the Super Bowl pits championship teams against one another, advertisers use the screentime to spar for the game’s most memorable 30-second spot.
Bellevue is considering amending land use codes to allow for more auto dealerships in certain pockets of the city.
With 33,000 members and classes booked through the next few months, West Coast Armory is a hidden but beloved facet of Bellevue. Members come for sport, for practice and simply out of curiosity.
Eastside residents gathered Wednesday night at Bellevue City Hall to share feedback on the possibility of instating an I-90 toll between I-5 in Seattle and I-405 in Bellevue.
Noel Gomez tried to escape the streets many times. But something always drew her back. Her pimp would find her, or Gomez would convince herself that the prospects weren’t much better outside the life – a dependency she likened to domestic abuse.
When Farhad Korram first moved to Bellevue from Iran, he can remember only a single high-rise building in downtown Bellevue. Today, his store, Oriental Rug Co., is flanked by parking lots and retail space he hardly could have imagined three decades ago.
The Washington Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) fined Mayor Conrad Lee $300 for failing to timely file a series of reports for a super-PAC he formed back in 2010.
Last December, Patrick Bannon was tabbed president of the BDA. After seven years with the 250-member nonprofit, Bannon hopes to continue promoting the vitality and growth of the city. Recently, the Reporter sat down with him to discuss current projects in the downtown corridor, this year’s legislative session and the lesson everyone can learn from recent tragedies in the headlines.
Saturday, BAM hosted a tea ceremony, a Japanese tradition involving the ceremonial preparation and presentation of matcha, or powdered green tea.
Saturday, the Bellevue Art Museum hosted a tea ceremony presented by EWCC. The Japanese tradition involves the ceremonial preparation and presentation of matcha, or powdered green tea.
Many Eastside residents turned out to protest Sen. Rodney Tom’s Senate coup Tuesday, Jan. 8 at a town hall meeting in Bellevue, brandishing signs that read: “Traitor Tom” and jeering when he spoke. The 48th Legislative District attracted a crowd of nearly twice its normal size, observed Rep. Ross Hunter of Medina.
When news of the Sandy Hook shooting first broke, my thoughts turned to my own friends and loved ones – not because I feared for their safety, but because I could already see the tenuous link between mental illness and mass murder, starting to take shape.
While all eyes were on Bellevue’s capital and operating budgets this winter, utility rates faced an increase of 10.1 percent in 2013, and an additional 5.9 percent the following year, an increase that some residents have labeled stealth taxes, in a budget year otherwise referred to as “status quo.”
East Link light rail’s finish date of 2023 might seem a ways off for commuters, but Bellevue residents can expect to see the project shift from the planning to more nuanced design phase of operations early this year.
While talks of a stagnant economy still saturate the public dialogue, Turner Barr has spent the last year as a tequila harvester in Mexico, peddled tours outside the Colosseum, made pizzas in Italy and sold Christmas trees in Germany, just a few of his many odd jobs.
Bellevue started 2012 by finding itself in a new congressional district and ended the year with a fatal shooting at a popular downtown restaurant and lounge. In between it fought over light rail, saw tolls go into effect on SR 520, welcomed a new school superintendent of the Bellevue School District and a new president at Bellevue College. Here’s a quick look at the year that was.
When author Maureen Francisco emigrated to the U.S. from the Philippines at five years old, she struggled to keep up with her other English-speaking peers. Frustrated, but perseverant, she began watching newscasts and carefully practicing the words on the screen.
Platters of food, and bowls of dip covered every available square inch of counter space at a recent potluck lunch at Crossroads Community Center. Women brought fruit cake, fried plantains, Kenyan pancakes rolled in honey and Indian paneer.
