Love is in the air and Cupid’s arrow is primed and ready for the Valentine season in Redmond. Nothing says love like buying local, so in preparation for February 14, we are providing you with a list of local options that will sweep your special one off their feet.  Whether it’s flowers, chocolates, dinner, wine or other, keep [...]

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What impact does the design on Redmond have on your health?  Can Redmond be better designed to reduce rates of obesity and diabetes? 
‘Designing Healthy Communities’  is a PBS series investigating how municipalities, health care professionals, designers and non profits are working together to transform our communities into places that improve our health.  While Redmond’s local PBS station [...]

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All King County and Sound Transit buses are operating on snow routes until further notice. For up to the minute information check out Metro Snow Alerts.    
Rapid Ride B line is also on its snow route, traveling along Bel-Red Road rather than NE 8th, and detouring from 148th north of Redmond Way to Willows Rd to 90th st.  The [...]

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520 or 90?  That is the question.  While not as famous as ‘To be or not to be’, it’s still an incredibly important question to Redmond commuters.  Well luckily there’s a free app for that! 
The developers at 520or90.com have created an app that can tell you how fast both routes will be and how much the tolls and fuel will cost [...]

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The word has been on the tip of everyones tongue this week, snow!  Whether you think it’s a good or bad four letter word, we have scoured the internet and rounded up a collection of links to assist you with a safe commute no matter how much snow falls.  
  
Many Radio and TV stations in the area provide [...]

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Join the 2012 Redmond Citizen Academy  
Redmond, WA – The City of Redmond invites community members to participate in the 2012 Redmond Citizen Academy – a series to help participants learn about the day-to-day activities involved in managing and operating Redmond government.
The Academy provides people who live, work, or have an interest in Redmond [...]

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We have four more winners in the game of R-TRIP Tag! Meet Libby B, Manik R, Glen S, and Brett C.  All won $50 Think Redmond AmEx to spend in Redmond. 
If you haven’t scanned the R-TRIP Tag, do so now. We’ll be drawing the Staycation and Kinnect later this month. Do it now for a chance to win!  
 
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Riding the bus at night? Have Metro be your private chauffeur!
While the days are only getting longer for the rest of the winter, Redmond can be very dark in the evenings.  If you’re taking the bus back home from a film at Big Picture, book club at a friends, or classes at Bellevue College, use King County Metro’s Night Stop program [...]

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Redmond residents may have noticed the impromptu holiday promotion on their “Trip Log” recently. Residents who (for their personal trips) walked, biked, bused or coordinated a multi-family carpool five times between Thanksgiving and New Years, would be eligible for a Redmond prize if they won the drawing.  Well, congrats are in order for Eric S, [...]

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Congratulations to the 50 Redmond commuters who won the R-TRIP November drawing. Each commuter won $25 Think Redmond dollars by saving a trip and biking, walking, carpooling, vanpooling or taking the bus. 

Brian R
Microsoft

Casey K
Marriott RTC

Chris G
Genie

Colleen J
Solutions IQ

Daland D
Microsoft

David D
Microsoft

Dawn C
Microsoft

Dean F
Microsoft

Derek D
Microsoft

Durga Y
Microsoft

Elizabeth S
Oak Street Law Group

Greg H
Microsoft

Himanshu C
Microsoft

Jeb W
Aerojet

Jon D
Microsoft

Joshua B
Microsoft

Julie S
Microsoft

Kyle M
Astronics

Laura M
Microsoft

Leszek M
Microsoft

Linzhen [...]

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