Two Valley residents, Chris Bunker, and Wynter Rhys, have taken entirely different paths to get to the same place. Each of them has the honor of being selected for the National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY), this weekend in Seattle, and each with a first-time film. Both of them say they want to make movies in their futures, and both have something to say, right now, in their films.
Two Duvall families lost beloved animals, plus the next few months worth of feed, supplies and shelter in a barn fire Monday, April 13.
Area drivers assemble 74-truck procession Saturday in honor of Dennis Todd.
Few people know what they’d do if they witnessed a crime, but North Bend’s Cameron Heutmaker does. He found out recently, when he helped police apprehend a group of burglars targeting several businesses in the city.
Few words on a newspaper page get the same amount of attention as the word “correction.”
Small-town life comes with responsibilities, too.
The things I learned this weekend at the North Bend Jazz Walk were not terribly important — some of them weren’t, anyway — but most of them could be filed under some sort of positive heading, like “funny” or “good to know,” or “looking forward to that.” Even the sad news, that one of my favorite authors died just a few days earlier, came with a great conversation about his and other books. He’d been sick for years, so the news was not a shock, and it was less sad because we could talk about him.
More than two years in the making, a sixth elementary school in the Snoqualmie Valley School District got a substantial start Monday, May 16, when school district officials broke ground on the new building.
It’s all up-side for area teenaged jazz musicians performing at the North Bend Jazz Walk Saturday, and for their band directors.
The timing was comical. Just days after the Si View Community Center in North Bend was named to the National Register of Historic Places, crews began a remodel that will close the building down for months.
Trumpeter Swans are almost ready to leave the area and head north for another breeding season, but for some of them, the road ends here.
If you got a phone call from school bond supporters this past week, you may also have gotten a surprise. Although the Snoqualmie Valley School District can’t legally advocate for a specific election issue, many people got calls identified as from the district.
More than 1 million people visit Snoqualmie Falls each year, bringing spending money, and economic stimulation with them. They don’t necessarily visit the city of Snoqualmie, though.