By Highlands Community Council
There goes the City of Renton looking for additional revenue streams. The officer had no evidence. Read this story and it should shock you. We should all hunch over now in protest.
RENTON, Wash. — On the very first day the new cell phone law took effect, Dixie Mosher got pulled over.
“I’ve got the lights behind me, from across. He came across traffic,” she said. “I was like, ‘Is there a problem?’ He goes, ‘Yeah, I pulled you over, because you were using a cell phone.’”
But Mosher claims she never had her cell phone.
Read the reset of the story at KOMONews.com.
By Highlands Community Council
Via the TNT.
A 27-year-old Mexican citizen living in Renton received a 10-year sentence in Seattle’s U.S. District Court Friday for cocaine trafficking. Florencio Villa-Cruz, also known as Rodolfo Salas-Zarate, will likely be deported following his prison term. According to court documents, he had been previously been deported following a four-month jail term in Snohomish County in 1999.
Read more at the TNT.
By Highlands Community Council
Is gang activity continuing to increase? Why aren’t we being told about the shooter? Are we in denial?
By CELESTE GRACEY
Renton Reporter Staff Writer
May 28 2010, 12:24 PM · UPDATED
A 47-year-old man was shot in the leg at a gas station on the 300 block of Rainier Avenue South Thursday night.
The man was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to a Renton Police Department press release.
Read the rest of the story at the Renton Reporter.
By Highlands Community Council
From the Highlands Neighbors e-mail list via Claudia Donnelly. Keep in mind the e-mail was sent on Wendesday but the meeting is actually tonight, May 20, 2010.
Dear Neighbors,
Please have a look at the announcement of an important Public Safety Meeting scheduled for tomorrow night and that attached materials we have received from our Storefront Deputy, Tara Wilson.
Happy Wednesday,
Gwendolyn
C.A.R.E. - Community Alliance to Reach Out & Engage
…doing what we can, with our neighbors, for our community…
206.888.7152
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Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 12:59:40 -0700
From: Libertynews@ISSAQUAH.WEDNET.EDU
Subject: Public Safety Meeting
To: LIBERTY@LISTSERV.ISSAQUAH.WEDNET.EDU
Hello,
In the interest of safety, the Issaquah School District notifies the school community when the King County Sheriff’s Office holds a public safety meeting about an offender in the local area. There will be a public safety meeting about a level-three offender tomorrow, Thursday, May 20th. Please see the information below:
Safety notification: The King County Sheriff’s Office has just sent the District notification of a public meeting at 6 p.m. tomorrow, May 20, at Newcastle City Hall in regards to a level-three offender that has moved into the Newcastle area. The offender, Joseph Hemmert, resides in the 7000 block of 122nd Avenue Southeast (just outside the Issaquah School District boundaries). Sheriff’s Officers will address concerns and share safety tips during the public meeting. Hemmert was convicted of child molestation and indecent liberties. He has been known to target children between the ages of 5 and 12 and frequent locales where children congregate. A level-three offender is most likely to reoffend. More information about Hemmert is online. Immediate questions should be addressed to the King County Sheriff’s Office Offender Community Awareness Program at 206-205-7948.
Thank you.
Mike Deletis,
Principal
By Highlands Community Council
Posted: 6:28 pm PST March 11,2010 at KIROTV.com
Updated: 8:46 am PST March 12,2010
RENTON, Wash. — Police are searching for the gunman in a drive-by shooting in Renton Thursday evening that left a 24-year-old man critically wounded.
The victim was walking with two other people near 104th and Petrovitsky Road at about 6 p.m. when shots were fired from a passing car, police said.
Before police knew the shots came from a vehicle, officers converged on the scene and began searching for the gunman with a police dog.
Read and view the rest of the story at KIROTV.com.
By Highlands Community Council
January 27, 2010
For more information contact:
Gregg Zimmerman, Public Works Administrator 425-430-7311
Alex Pietsch, Community & Economic Development Administrator 425-430-6592
Preeti Shridhar, Communications Director 425-430-6569
Renton, WA: New sidewalks are appearing in the Renton Highlands as part of the city’s redevelopment plan for the neighborhood. As part of the city’s Sunset Area Community Investment Strategy, work on a new concrete sidewalk is underway from NE 5th Street to NE 20th Street, between Edmonds Avenue NE and Monroe Avenue NE, in the Renton Highlands.
A total of 4,700 linear feet of sidewalk is being constructed. The project includes new four-foot wide sidewalks and installation of 20 wheelchair accessible ramps to significantly improve pedestrian safety.
“This project will greatly enhance safety for pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists in the Sunset neighborhood,” said Mayor Denis Law. “Sidewalk improvements were identified as one of the key priorities of the Highlands community and this project is part of our overall redevelopment plan for the neighborhood.”
The Sunset Area Community Investment Strategy (CIS) is based on the recommendations of the Highlands Task Force, and proposes a plan for redevelopment and public investments in the Renton Highlands. The timing of the CIS is in conjunction with redevelopment plans for Sunset Terrace, a Renton Housing Authority property, as well as potential development by the Renton School District. CIS recommendations include creating a “third place” or public gathering space in conjunction with a relocated and expanded Highlands library, initiating pedestrian and streetscape improvements, advocating for improvements on Sunset Boulevard, and the development of a sub-regional storm water drainage facility.
The sidewalk project will cost $148,606 and is expected to be completed by March. For more information on this project and the Sunset Area Community Investment Strategy visit RentonWa.gov.
By Highlands Community Council
UPDATE via E-mail from Claudia:
We met the man who is taking care of this little dog. He said Ozzie is home from the vets with a drainage tube. There was no damage done to the internal organs.
He is home in pain. Supposedly Animal Control will be out to pick up the complaint. It will take him about a month to heal.
From Claudia Donnelly via e-mail.
I was walking my dogs this morning at Hazen and ran into some I know — with his dog. He usually has a second dog with him.He told me this story.
He was walking both dogs across the street from a house where a dog is chained up. This chained up dog is well known with the Animal Control people. As this person passed in front of the house, the chained up dog lunged once and twice to get off the chain. The dog lunged a third time and broke the chained and attacked one of the little dogs. This little dog was mauled several times by this bigger dog before it was beaten off. Evidently this dog has done this before — but people haven’t reported. The person I talked to today plans on filing a complaint with Animal Control.
In the meantime, the little dog was at the Vets on NE 4th and was going to be operated on today — to sew up his wounds.
People need to get involved and report things. If they had reported this aggressive dog, the little dog would not be where he is today. But they don’t — they “don’t want to get involved”
Have a Happy New Year.
Claudia
By Highlands Community Council
By Craig Welch
Seattle Times environment reporter
The rows of giant sandbags now lining the Green River may calm residents who feared water could swamp its banks.But the new barrier only masks risks still hidden below.
Beneath the stacks of plastic designed to prevent flooding from a damaged dam rest aging levees in serious decay. The right mix of storms could wipe them out and flood the valley before the river even hits its crest.
Story continues at SeattleTimes.com.
By Highlands Community Council
SKYWAY, Wash. - A man was found dead from a single gunshot wound in Skyway on Christmas night, and the shooter remains at large, deputies said.The man’s body was found inside a vehicle in the parking lot behind the Hill View Apartments, in the 12800 block of 60th Lane South.
Read more at KOMONews.com.
By Highlands Community Council
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Cities around the country that have installed energy-efficient traffic lights are discovering a hazardous downside: The bulbs don’t burn hot enough to melt snow and can become crusted over in a storm - a problem blamed for dozens of accidents and at least one death.”I’ve never had to put up with this in the past,” said Duane Kassens, a driver from West Bend who got into a fender-bender recently because he couldn’t see the lights. “The police officer told me the new lights weren’t melting the snow.
Story continues at KOMONews.com.
