Kenmore liquor-store license rights are up for auction again

Kenmore
Andy Nystrom / Reporter
Kenmore's state-run liquor store at 6820 N.E. Bothell Way.
Devinder Sahota and his associates won't fill their proverbial Liquor Barn Enterprises bottle with the state-run Kenmore store after all.

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News 11:11 AM May 17, 2012 0

Sen. Murray, Northshore women wave the Title IX flag

Thanks to Title IX, Yonni Mills finally stepped off the sidelines and onto the volleyball and basketball courts for Shorecrest High. The current Bothell High athletic director, who graduated from Shorecrest in 1975 and later placed at nationals as part of Washington State University’s volleyball squad, had always watched her younger brothers play organized ball — and now, it was her chance.

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News updated 1:15 PM May 17, 2012 0

Are people driving safely on State Route 522 through Kenmore and Bothell?

As Jay’s Cafe owner Misty Qureshi glanced out the window of her business at the two smashed vehicles — one sitting on all four tires and the other laying on its side — she feels that driving has become a bit chaotic on Northeast Bothell Way, or State Route 522, in Kenmore. “I think the accident happened because of this median in the middle,” she said on May 7, “because people try getting out — any hole, they just see it, which is wrong. They’re not supposed to violate that, but they do it anyway.”

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News 12:57 PM May 17, 2012 0

DelBene sets up office in Bothell while running for First District seat

Suzan DelBene is a businesswoman, an entrepreneur — and a runner. She’s helped start up companies, managed small businesses, worked in large businesses like Microsoft and was director of the Washington State Department of Revenue. And the 50-year-old has also run a couple of marathons over the years.

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News 12:31 PM May 17, 2012 0

Obama visit: an emotional experience for teacher, student | Teen Scene

Leaning against the wall of Seattle’s Paramount Theatre on May 10, I watched with pride as my Inglemoor High biology teacher of two years, Sue Black, strode confidently onto the brightly lit stage, greeting reporters and audience members at a President Obama campaign fund-raiser. I listened, enrapt, as she told of her battle with cancer and I cried as the President embraced her, the emotion of the past week overwhelming me as I sat witness to my teacher turning the floor over to the most powerful man in the world.

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Opinion 12:19 PM May 17, 2012 0

Students will benefit from Milk Money Month | Letter

May is Milk Money Month. If readers see a milk bottle in Kenmore, Bothell or Woodinville with an adorable cow holding a Milk Money sign at a local merchant’s counter, please spare some extra change and you’ll be supporting the Northshore Schools Foundation’s Initiative to help Advanced and Disadvantaged Learners in the Northshore School District.

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Letters 12:17 PM May 17, 2012 0

School district names 12 Wall of Honor inductees

Twelve Northshore School District (NSD) alumni, former staff or board members will be inducted to the Wall of Honor for 2012 and recognized at a special ceremony at 6 p.m. Aug. 16 at Pop Keeney Stadium. The public is welcome to attend.

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Community 12:14 PM May 17, 2012 0

Bothell takes Inglemoor, 8-3, in 4A Kingco fastpitch tourney

Bothell defeated Inglemoor, 8-3, in fastpitch action last night at the 4A Kingco Tournament and will take on Newport at 5 p.m. tonight at Hartman Park in Redmond.

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Sports updated 10:32 AM May 17, 2012 0

Cedar Park falls to Ridgefield in 1A state soccer tourney

Cedar Park Christian's boys soccer team (11-6-3) lost to Ridgefield, 2-0, on May 15 in the 1A state tournament at Chinook Stadium in Kalama.

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Sports 9:47 AM May 17, 2012 0

Bothell High students get the message in DUI drill | Slideshow

Nik Gray didn't like seeing his friends, Abby Leonard and Austen Dahl, involved in a "deadly" two-car accident — even if it was a DUI drill at Bothell High. Thursday morning, while the senior class watched and some upcoming graduates participated, Bothell Fire and EMS staged the event, which featured two wrecked cars, "injured and deceased" students and a host of emergency vehicles and a helicopter to drive home the message that drinking and driving don't mix.

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News updated 8:02 PM May 15, 2012 0  

Cell-phone photos help Bothell investigator locate hit-and-run truck driver | Update

Aided by witnesses' cell-phone photos, a Bothell Police Department investigator tracked down a loaded tractor-trailer driver who struck a utility pole on State Route 522 in Bothell and drove away from the scene last Thursday morning.

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News updated 2:06 PM May 15, 2012 0

Question of the Day

Do you feel safe while driving on State Route 522 through Bothell and Kenmore?