The grand opening celebration of the new Bastyr University California campus in San Diego is set for Sept. 14, and marks a historic day as the Golden State’s first regionally and professionally accredited school for naturopathic medicine opens to students.
Here’s the final primary 2012 percentages from Washington State Elections for positions that affect Bothell and Kenmore:
• Legislative District 1, state senator: Sen. Rosemary McAuliffe, 44.27 percent; Dawn McCravey, 42.2 percent.
Seattle Prep standout Josh Martin, one of the state’s top basketball prospects about to enter his junior year, has recently transferred to Bothell High School according to a report by ESPN’s Husky Nation.
David Ulm was a giving man, always going out of his way to help friends and strangers in need, according to Charlie Wilson on a family memorial fund Web site.
The strike is over.
This morning at Union Hall in Tukwila, Waste Management garbage-truck drivers represented by Teamsters Local 117 approved a new six-year labor agreement by a 109-14 vote.
The situation began with a male driver trying to run down a Bothell police officer, investigators say, and ended with police apprehending the man in a Bothell back yard, just south of the Mill Creek Highlands neighborhood.
Police rounded up two female burglary suspects in Bothell while a male suspect got away in Kenmore yesterday afternoon.
Kenmore police and officers from other agencies searched a neighborhood around the 6200 block of 193rd Place Northeast in Kenmore for the suspect in a Brier burglary, according to Shari Ireton, director of communications for the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.
Careena Alaoui, Kristen Barclay, Meghan Tveit and Sierra Utton from Bothell and Kenmore were part of an FC Alliance girls U-15 team that took a soccer tournament in Spain by storm July 1-7.
An electrical malfunction to a bathroom fan caused a house fire in Kenmore this morning.
Gloria Fletcher has been named president of Sound Publishing, home to the Bothell-Kenmore Reporter.
Fletcher comes to Sound from Gatehouse Media, where she was regional vice president responsible for 85 publications spread over 13 states based in Joplin, Mo. Prior to Gatehouse, she was division vice president for Community Newspaper Holdings from 2000 to 2007, responsible for their Oklahoma group. She also worked for American Publishing Company from 1988 to 1999, after beginning her career working for a small daily in Woodward, Okla., in 1985.
“Yes”-annexation group Citizens for a Better Bothell planned to hold a debate with “no”-annexation collection Citizens for Responsible Annexations on March 28, but a community question-and-answer session is now the focus of the meeting.
Donald McNeely, a Bothell man accused of killing his wife, was released without bail from Snohomish County Jail on Friday.
Everett District Judge Tam Bui said the 54-year-old was not a flight risk or a threat. According to court documents and TV news reports, McNeely told detectives that his wife, Linda, 52, suffered from untreatable brain cancer and had asked him to kill her.
Seattle police arrested Joseph Phan, a city of Bothell project inspector in the utilities department, while on the job Thursday for allegedly diverting funds from his former employer, Seattle Public Utilities, into a private bank account and then using the money for personal expenses, according to a Seattle Police Department report.
Sherwin Shayegan, a 2001 Inglemoor High graduate and former Cascadia Community College student, according to his Facebook page, pleaded guilty on Feb. 1 to two misdemeanor assault charges after “jumping onto the backs” of two high-school soccer players during an Oct. 28 state tournament in Helena, Mont., according to charging papers.
Fred Stouder, who was voted in as Kenmore’s second city manager in December 2008, will be retiring soon.
The countdown is on for drivers who use State Route 520. Starting Dec. 29, drivers will pay an electronic toll to cross the bridge and the Washington State Department of Transportation is urging travelers to get ready by setting up a Good To Go! account.
Both the King County and Snohomish County canvassing boards certified the results of the Nov. 8 general election Nov. 29.
Kenmore resident Karol Osusky won a gold medal at the International Canoe Federation (ICF) Masters Kayaking World Championships in Szeged, Hungary last weekend, combining with Canada’s Marian Nemec to take the K-2 Men’s 200 meter sprint (65-69 age group) in 50.682 seconds.
Jenny and Joel Madrazo cherished the moments whenever they heard their son’s voice over the phone. During those calls back home, Bothell native Lt. Nicholas Aaron Madrazo was stationed in Afghanistan with the U.S. Marine Corps.
Three years ago, on Sept. 9, 2008, the 25-year-old was in the mountains of Kapisa Province, Afghanistan, supporting combat operations when his Humvee hit an improvised explosive device. He was killed along with Capt. Jesse Melton, Navy Corpsman Eickmann Strickland and an Afghan interpreter.
To honor Nicholas’ life and to support the troops, their families and veterans, they started the NAMES (Nicholas Aaron Madrazo Endearing Service) Foundation and will hold an all-ages 5K run/walk fund-raiser Sept. 10 at Westhill Elementary, 19515 88th Ave. N.E. in Bothell. Check-in and registration for participants start at 7:30 a.m. and the run/walk starts at 8:30 a.m.
The city of Bothell and the Snohomish County Boundary Review Board nearly made it through the 30-day appeal period before unincorporated Snohomish County resident Jeff Berg stepped forward.
On Aug. 12 — the 30th day — according to Snohomish County Superior Court documents, Berg filed an appeal that challenges the board’s unanimous decision that Bothell’s annexation proposal met all factors, objectives and planning goals required by Washington State law. The June 27 decision — followed by the board’s final written decision July 13 — cleared the way for citizens to vote in November on whether or not to be annexed into Bothell.
