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Inslee visit highlights kids BY DANIEL NASH ISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
On Wednesday, after raising a flag thanking the Seahawks above Seattle’s Space Needle, Gov. Jay Inslee embarked on a whistle stop tour of the greater Puget Sound to talk about his education budget and listen to local leaders’ take on schooling. Mid-afternoon, that tour
brought him to the YWCA Family Village in the Issaquah Highlands for a sit down with dozens of building residents, Issaquah and Sammamish city leaders, educators and nonprofit workers. The Family Village is a 146-unit affordable housing community for families. However, it also offers children’s recreational facilities, SEE INSLEE, 6
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Klahanie to vote on annexation to Sammamish on April 28 ballot
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Randolph Grove puts up his hand for a high-five from Cliff Gehrett, the general manager of the Issaquah Cannabis Company during the store’s opening Jan. 30.
A quiet opening for Issaquah's first recreational marijuana shop BY DANIEL NASH ISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
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When the Issaquah Cannabis Company opened Friday, there were no packed parking lots at the office building on 230 N.E. Juniper St., no lines out the door, no crowds clamoring for their first taste of entirely legal, non-medical marijuana. After all, more than six months after the first licensed stores opened in Washington state, the novelty has dissipated somewhat.
There was exactly one customer waiting in the shop’s lobby for the stroke of 10 a.m., when the store opened. At the top of the hour, 63-year-old Randolph “R.A.G.” Grove — a retired Marine and four-year Issaquah resident — was led through the hallway beyond the ID checkpoint, past a large canvas photo print of early 20th century Prohibition czar Ames Woodcock, into the store proper. SEE POT SHOP, 6
Klahanie residents may be voting themselves into Sammamish in less than three months. The Sammamish City Council on Tuesday night unanimously passed a bill requesting an annexation vote for the planned community and its associated neighborhoods on the April 28 special ballot. If the King County Director of Elections accepts the ballot, the city will be on the hook for the cost of a local ballot for Klahanie residents and the printing of an informational pamphlet, as well as the appointment of pro and con committees. Tuesday's vote was the culmination of a year of formal preparation by the city — and perhaps more than a year of informal preparation by council members. "This has been a long, long process," City Manager Ben Yazici said. Klahanie, an unincorporated planned community on the Sammamish Plateau, was once claimed by the city of Issaquah's annexation area. But after Klahanie residents narrowly rejected annexation for the second time in the Feb. 2014 special election — a similar vote SEE KLAHANIE, 2
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