The Northshore School District’s ninth annual Backpacks for Kids donation drive will run through Aug. 8. It will benefit Northshore families who are unable to send their children to school with necessary school supplies.
The YWCA’s School Days program is ready to roll one month before school starts.
IMAGINE, the education program at the University of Washington, Bothell’s new summer youth program, began July 21 with an integrated math, science and language arts curriculum focusing on environmental stewardship.
The board for Leadership Eastside approved a new slate of officers and directors at its June board meeting.
The Northshore Public Education Foundation (NPEF) recently hired Ed Todd as executive director of the nonprofit organization.
Mark Lamb, founder and owner of the North Creek Law Firm and Bothell mayor, will be one of the honorees at the Puget Sound Business Journal’s 2008 40 Under 40 event starting at 6 p.m. Sept. 18 at The Seattle Repertory Theatre.
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Aegis Living will host a seminar on differentiating between normal-aging and more-serious-aging issues from 6:30-8 p.m. Aug. 7 at its Bothell location (10605 N.E. 185th St.).
The Sound Transit (ST) Board is discussing a new 15-year option for expanding mass transit. The new option includes further light-rail extensions and a series of Sounder commuter rail and ST Express regional bus-service expansions between 2009 and 2023.
The gifts keep arriving at Walter “Wally” King’s apple tree in Bothell.
The city of Bothell has received notice from the Washington State Auditor’s Office that it has achieved a seventh-consecutive year with zero audit findings.
• The Bothell Baseball Club is holding tryouts for the 2009 U14 Sandy Koufax season from noon to 2 p.m. Aug. 17 at Bothell High. Contact Mike Woods at (206) 730-7891 or e-mail BBCU14@Yahoo.com. Players must not turn 15 before May 1.
For longtime Bothell resident George Selg, who graduated from the Bothell High class of 1963, the Pop Keeney Field surroundings have always been home to him.
Bothell City Manager Bob Stowe has selected Joe Beck as Bothell’s new city attorney with a start date of Sept. 2. Beck comes to the city of Bothell with more than 12 years of municipal law experience, with the last five years as assistant city attorney for the city of Auburn. He will report directly to the city manager.
Concerned residents packed a Bothell City Council meeting July 29 to provide testimony on the location of a new city hall facility that is due to open by 2012.
Monique Kebbe wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary when a coyote claimed the life of her cat Elsie last year.