Bellevue · One useful thing

test the alarms when the clocks change

AI illustration: NE Spring Boulevard in the Spring District on a clear autumn morning, with modern office buildings and young street trees in fall color
NE Spring Boulevard, Spring District. AI illustration of the real place, checked against street-level imagery, November 2026.

Clocks fall back Sunday, November 1. Bellevue Fire asks for a monthly test of every smoke and carbon monoxide alarm. Alarms with replaceable batteries need new ones twice a year, so the time change is an easy reminder; sealed alarms run up to 10 years. Smoke alarms belong in every bedroom, outside each sleeping area and on every level, basement included. Carbon monoxide alarms go outside each sleeping area and on every level. Bellevue Fire

That's the week. Reply with anything you want tracked in Bellevue. Next Thursday: what council decided on parking, fees and the two rezones, the October 27 budget hearing, and the BelRed code hearing.

Curious what your place would sell for right now? Reply with your address.

Follow the Bellevue Dispatch on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bellevue-dispatch/

Know a neighbor who would read this? Forward it. They can subscribe at bellevuedispatch.com.

Live in Bellevue, work in Kirkland? The Kirkland Dispatch is the same five minutes for Kirkland: https://www.kirklanddispatch.com/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cross-bellevue

The Bellevue Dispatch is researched and written with AI tools, and an editor reads every issue before it goes out. Every item links its public source. Something wrong? Write to hello@bellevuedispatch.com; corrections run in the next issue and on this page.

Bellevue, once a week

Get this in your inbox every Thursday.

The Bellevue Dispatch is a free five-minute email every Thursday at 6 AM. One section is written for your own neighborhood.

Add your address and once a month your neighborhood block includes an estimate of what your home would sell for today. Kept private and never sold.

Free. One email a week, Thursday 6 AM. Unsubscribe in one click. Your email stays with the Bellevue Dispatch: never sold, never given to advertisers, and shared with no one unless you tick the box. Our standards.

Also in this issue