It’s a new year and a new opportunity for citizen involvement in Sammamish.
Typically, this is thought of as the City asking for volunteers on various commissions and committees appointed by the City Council
But there are several organizations independent of those under the City auspices.
Here is a list, which is hoped all-inclusive. The trouble with lists is that usually someone or something gets left off inadvertently. Apologies if this is the case.
Personal message from Scott Hamilton, Editor of Sammamish Comment.
Scott Hamilton
After 20 years, two months and 10 days, I have moved from Sammamish.
For my wife, Gail Twelves, it’s been one month short of 16 years.
We’ve moved to Bainbridge Island, where we will build a home. For the first time in decades, we’re renters—for the time being.
Sammamish Comment will continue through next year, at which time this community service to Sammamish will close. The Comment was formed in 2003, so at the end of next year, this will have been a 14 year run.
Here are the Top 10 stories in Sammamish for 2015, as measured by readership on Sammamish Comment:
A precinct-by-precinct analysis of the Nov. 3 Sammamish City Council election demonstrates that 
Ramiro Valderrama faced only token opposition, and therefore Sammamish Comment hasn’t spent a lot of time analyzing his race against Hank Klein. Klein dropped out of the race too late to take his name off the ballot. He didn’t campaign or raise money.
Here’s what The Comment’s analysis found:
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How did two veterans of Sammamish public service lose their bids for election to the City Council in the Nov. 3 election to two unknown newcomers to the City?
They also had an unwitting helping hand from their own Deputy Mayor, whose obsessions galvanized the opposition to upset her allies.
This is the inside story of how Mayor Tom Vance lost to two-year resident Tom Hornish and how former Mayor and Council Member Mark Cross lost a comeback bid to a feisty young Mom in tennis shoes, Christie Malchow, invoking remembrances of another tennis shoe Mom campaign in Washington long before Malchow moved here.
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