Merelyn L. Ballard died Feb. 16, 2010. She was 89. She was born Aug. 14, 1920. A memorial will be…
The Cougar Football Club will host the 8th Annual Bothell High Booster Auction April 17 at the Mill Creek Golf and Country Club (15500 Country Club Drive).
Salsa moves, belly-dancing wiggles and line-dancing kicks.
All this and more will be on tap at Evergreen Hospital Medical Center’s Day of Dance, a free event that will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 27 at the Lynnwood Convention Center. Molly Shen of KOMO Television will be the celebrity emcee at this inaugural event in Evergreen’s new partnership with Spirit of Women.
Haddis Tadesse of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will be at Cascadia Community College Feb. 23 to talk about development issues in Africa, the world’s second-largest continent with an estimated population over 1 billion people.
The University of Washington, Bothell’s Writing for Their Lives literary series will conclude in March with author Renee Gladman. Gladman…
A team of five master of business administration (MBA) students from the University of Washington, Bothell won the Pacific Northwest Investment Research Challenge organized by the Seattle CFA Society Feb. 5, after competing against teams from seven other universities in the region.
King County voters — along with a small number of eligible Snohomish County voters — appear to have approved a levy lid lift benefitting the King County Library System (KCLS).
Votes are still being counted from the Feb. 9 special election and numbers won’t be official until Feb. 24, but the lid lift was passing 125,102 to 114,685 as of the deadline for this issue.
As local residents might expect, Northshore School District officials were happy if cautious.
“I’m pleased,” said Superintendent Larry Francois. “It validates what I’ve believed to be true, which is that the state has not stepped up to the plate and funded basic education.”
Liberty Tax Service, 7016 N.E. Bothell Way, Suite 102, in Kenmore will host a roadside party to collect used cell…
In moving forward with the annexation of its urban growth areas both in King and Snohomish counties, Bothell city staff has recommended local officials use a newly authorized process that could allow the annexations to take place without a public vote.
Inglemoor High students Joe Becker as Gaston and Meowset Abbett as Belle and a host of others star in “Beauty…
A summary of local police activity
According to a department spokesperson, eight of Snohomish County Fire District 7’s employees have spent countless hours over the last year and a half forming an honor guard to represent Fire District 7 at memorials, ceremonies and events throughout the northwest.
The group Eastside Trail Advocates (ETA) held its first informational meeting Wednesday in Kirkland to express its ideas for the rail line formerly owned by Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF). And while the group stresses it is not opposed to a commuter train, or light rail, on the line, it would like a paved commuter trail be considered in the corridor, as well.
The 2010 Disabled Indoor Air Gun Sectional Championships will be held Feb. 27-28 at the American Legion Hall Post 127, Bothell.
The event is sponsored by the American Legion Post and the the Northwest Chapter of the Paralyzed Veterans of America and is part of the National Rifle Association national air-gun championship competition.
Lt. Pete Van Dusen received the Employee of the Year award at the 2009 Northshore Fire Department Awards Banquet held at the Elks Lodge on Jan. 29.