Two sets of transportation bills in the state Legislature that would have significant effects on Eastside traffic are moving closer to passage in the House and Senate.
Last month 19-year-old Charlotte Anthony’s home was robbed. The stunned University of Washington student learned that someone had stolen her laptop, jewelry, and oddly enough, a pair of cheap pink sunglasses.
“What they were interested in shows their age group, taking cheap jewelry that only kids would like,” she said.
Anthony’s home was one of a string of burglaries to hit a Lake Hills neighborhood last month with robbers sneaking in through small openings, stealing numerous small electronics and other keepsakes.
As Sound Transit and Bellevue continue to develop their desired East Link light-rail routes, a group of Bellevue neighbors is working on a wrinkle in the Bellevue Way/112th Avenue alignment (B2M) that they say could save money and assuage the worries of many Bellevue citizens.
Led by Bill Thurston, president of the Bellevue Club, the alignment shifts the track on Bellevue Way/112th Avenue over to the west side of the road, removing a key at-grade crossing, eliminating visual interruptions, and potentially avoiding major impacts to the Mercer Slough and the historic Winters House.
Thurston and his team began displaying the model to citizens and government officials in December, with positive reviews, he said.
Bellevue is inching closer to finding a permanent candidate for its planning director position.
Bellevue residents will receive their 2011 property tax bills this week, with higher rates, despite lower property values. The reason? Voters have approved increases in the school levy.
The Bellevue City Council on Monday displayed a collective reluctance to charge property owners more than $10 million of the $47 million package to improve 120th Avenue Northeast and extend Northeast Fourth Street.
It may be a matter of weeks before motorists face tolls on the SR 520 bridge as two bills debuted Monday in Olympia to set the rates.
A controversial policy to charge nearby property owners a portion of the bill to improvements on 120th Avenue Northeast and extension of Northeast Fourth Street will be back in front of the Bellevue City Council next week.
The policy calls for a local improvement district (LID) to pay for $10 million of approximately $47 million cost to extend Northeast 4th Street from 116th to 120th Avenue Northeast and widen 120th Avenue Northeast between Northeast Fourth and Eighth streets. The idea was widely panned by property owners at meetings with the Hearing Examiner last October.
A bill to build and authorize new variable toll lanes on Interstate 405 received its first public discussion in front of the House Transportation Committee on Wednesday.
A 12-year-old boy was shot in the face, likely by his brother, Monday night while the siblings were wrestling, Bellevue police said.
Police responded to a 911 call at the 12th Place Condos, at the 16200 Block of Northeast 12th Court, at 7:30 p.m. reporting a boy with blood coming from his mouth and face.
Medina Police Chief Jeffrey Chen has accused City Manager Donna Hanson of forcing him out of his post last month because of his attempt to investigate a city employee who, he said, was leaking sensitive information.
Tia Smith has reached the pinnacle of her sport, twice, at the tender age of 18. Few competitors can say that, regardless of sport or game.
Smith’s talent: Dog showing.
Smith will make her second trip to the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York City as a junior handler next month.
A bill to bring high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes to Interstate 405 is back in front of the Legislature, and it’s already drawn criticism from prominent Eastside individuals.
A small memorial rests in the center of Bellevue’s Downtown Park, flanked by trees. The more than 80-year-old memorial immortalizes the contributions of three Bellevue men who died in World War I with elm trees planted soon after their deaths. Now one man is attempting to revive and restore the memories often ignored, but never forgotten with a revitalized memorial that will serve as a renovated centerpiece of Bellevue’s beloved 20-acre green oasis.
A stalled van on Kamber Road near 145th Place Southeast exploded and caught fire at approximately 2:30 p.m. sending three people to the hospital with burn injuries.
The van began rolling backwards down Kamber and then ignited after an explosion from inside.fighters responded to the incident, which sent two males and a female victim to the hospital with burns.
Initial reports indicate the van exploded, then burst into flames.
Bellevue Fire Department arson investigators are on scene. Kamber Road remains closed for the investigation.
Fresh off a tense and painful election season, the wheels are already in motion for many local officials in 2011,…
When money for emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence dried up, the local Windermere Property Management office responded by putting up $5,000 to sustain the program in Bellevue.
With forecasts calling for snow in the Puget Sound area today, the scene of hundreds of cars slowly sliding around Interstate 5 for hours, pin-balling off each other while searching for traction, becomes a possibility once again.
The state’s Transportation Commission made a unanimous, but non-binding, decision Wednesday night to set peak toll rates for the Evergreen…
Bellevue will ask Sound Transit to hold off on its final decision on the location of light-rail through south Bellevue until additional analysis on the Bellevue City Council’s desired route is developed.
