Education, and its impact on the development of Washington State's workforce, is the top priority for Bill Bryant (R), who is challenging Governor Jay Inslee for that office in the November election.
North Bend's largest park, Torguson Park on North Bend Way, will be getting an update almost two years in the planning. North Bend City Council members voted Sept. 20 to approve the $1.6 million project to add restrooms and a concessions building, relocate two of the fields and add turf, build a trail looping through the park, and improving drainage on the fields.
Carnation is not a sleepy little town any more. The city of about 1,800 people is starting to grow, with 65 homes permitted, or almost through the permitting process, for construction in four subdivisions, plus infill development. That growth, while welcome for its potential revenue to the city, may be a threat to Carnation's "country cool" culture, according to about a dozen people — and two chickens — who spoke at last Tuesday's Carnation City Council meeting.
North Bend's streets and sidewalks will fill with visitors this weekend as the fourth annual Blues Walk returns to downtown. It will be a blues-lovers bonanza with live blues performances staged in 21 venues, large and small, throughout the evening, and admission to all via one ticket.
"How do you make the world a better place?" asked Snoqualmie Valley Women in Business Board President Jacqueline Fairbrass, at the organization's Sept. 14 luncheon meeting.
In a game marked by penalties and two scoreless quarters, the Mount Si High School football team still found some wins to celebrate after its Sept. 17 loss to the Bothell Cougars, 31-21.
Work will begin Monday on the delayed start of the Mount Si High School construction project. The city of Snoqualmie issued the building permit for the $195 million project this week, to formally authorize the three-year project.
"What a beautiful library!" a visitor declared as she walked through the double-doors of the Timber Ridge Elementary School library Thursday evening.
Since Sound Publishing, and this newspaper as a part of it, began a partnership with Leadership Eastside in recent months, I have been wondering what, exactly, makes a person a leader?
When pilot Nick Fischer was young, jet engines hadn’t been invented yet. When he was very young, the town of Snoqualmie Falls still existed — it’s where he was born, actually. Today, at age 94, Fischer jokes that he hasn’t been around long enough to have any history, yet.
We are now squarely in awards season, which is lucky for me, because I missed a fairly big story last fall, and it’s finally almost timely again.
North Bend’s City Council debated on density, affordable and cottage housing, and what citizens really want from city zoning at it’s Feb. 2 meeting. The end results of the discussion were an interim, or emergency, change to the city’s newest development zone and plans to further consider residential development in an employment park zone, and design standards for cottage housing.
The Snoqualmie Police Department is approaching the end of its second year providing services to the city of North Bend, Police Chief Steve McCulley reported to the North Bend City Council Feb. 2.
Crowds are not for me. I don’t like navigating through them, don’t like the weird rushed feeling that I get when surrounded by people, and really don’t like the way I always end up moving against their tides.
Fighting cancer and building community are one and the same for Relay for Life Snoqualmie Valley. The community party/cancer research fundraiser is now in its 15th year of walking, dancing, honoring cancer survivors and lighting up a summer night with hope, courage and luminaria.
The problems of King County are the problems of all 39 cities in King County.
Two Mount Si High School students enrolled in Running Start at Bellevue College told the Snoqualmie Valley School Board Jan. 14 that they no longer felt safe following the Jan. 7 discovery that other Mount Si High School students, also in Running Start, had named them on a ‘hate list’ on a social media site.
Roads and bridges throughout King County are deteriorating faster than the county’s Road Services staff and an annual $100 million in revenue can maintain them. Proper upkeep of the county’s transportation infrastructure will require almost four times that amount by county estimates, and even more by business consulting firm BERK Consulting’s calculations.
Principal John Belcher sent a message to Mount Si High School students and parents last week, reminding them to, basically, look out for each other over the long weekend. Watch for signs of grief and remember that help is available, both in school and out of it, he advised.
Two years. That was the estimate I heard last week for a new elected official to get up to speed in his or her governing capacity. Yikes, I thought. Another estimate I heard was six to eight months. Yikes again.
