Floating the cool waters of the Snoqualmie on a hot summer day used to be an annual tradition for Carrie Laumb. But last year, Laumb decided that the excursion from the Falls to Fall City wasn’t for her anymore.
Silent for years, the cavernous planer shed at the old Weyerhaeuser mill site in Snoqualmie was alive with sound Friday, April 15.
Dozens of high-performance sports cars revved their engines, readying for an afternoon heat in the Global Rallycross Twin Peaks race, held at the transformed mill site now known as the Old Mill Adventure Park and headquarters of DirtFish Rally School.
Flora Jean Buso groans when she thinks about her teeth.
A four-year resident of Mount Si Transitional Health Center, Buso, 70, lost her only set of dentures one year ago.
Since then, her diet and her dignity have suffered. While her gums have tightened up, she sticks mainly to soft foods at mealtime.
Buso’s got a long while yet to wait for new teeth. In January, the Washington Department of Social and Health Services cut adult vision, dental, podiatry and hearing services, excepting emergency treatments, for Medicaid recipents. Small prescription co-pays were also eliminated for some Medicare patients. Wash. Gov. Chris Gregoire plans to reinstate adult services as part of her budget for the next biennium in July.
Longtime Snoqualmie resident Gloria McNeely still remembers what life was like before the infamous North Bend traffic light at State Highway 202 and Bendigo went up.
The light, which was installed at 3 p.m. July 1, 1965, replaced a problematic flashing yellow, and was installed by order of the legislature—the only such signal ever mandated by state law.
Geary Eppley, president of the Snoqualmie Valley Preservation Alliance, knew a decision was coming soon in his case, SVPA vs. Army Corps of Engineers. But there may have been some irony in the fact that Eppley was bracing for a flood when Judge John Coughenour ruled Wednesday, March 31, against the Alliance’s argument, filed in part as a reaction to Lower Valley flooding.
The Preservation Alliance had argued that the Corps avoided a permitting process that would have required more public input and study of downstream effects.
The city of Snoqualmie is exploring annexation of 600 acres of land centered on the former Weyerhaeuser mill site, with jobs rather than a new housing community in mind. The 593-acre Mill Planning Area, located in the city’s urban growth area, could one day house high-technology jobs, City Administrator Bob Larson said.
Does Snoqualmie need something more for its youth? I had the opportunity to ask that question several times over the last few weeks to residents of all ages, working on our series on the city’s young demographic, and I was surprised by the responses.
When avalanches close Snoqualmie Pass, all of North Bend turns into a truck stop.
Harold Erland could be the Valley’s most visible volunteer. Active with the Kiwanis, Salvation Army and Upper Snoqualmie Valley Elk Management Group, he can be found year-round furthering understanding of the local environment for animals and people.
The Lady Wildcats handled Lake Washington at home Thursday, March 24, with help from big bats and fast runners.
Freshmen batters Celine Fowler, Rachel Picchena, Nikki Caroll and Jenny Carroll accounted for six of Mount Si’s ten runs batted in.
Soldiers with a U.S. Army civil affairs unit may be visible in the Snoqualmie Valley this weekend, training their infrastructure-building skills for a real-world conflict.
Watching the images of destruction unfurl across my computer screen last week, I was shocked and amazed. The scenes that hit the Web in the wake of Japan’s triple earthquake-tsunami-nuclear disaster are some of the most dramatic I’ve ever seen—flames engulfing lots of parked cars and blazing up from burning refineries, water careening down urban streets, acres of floating debris and explosions at reactors.
Mount Si High School varsity boys soccer fell to visiting Eastlake in a rain-drenched home battle Wednesday, March 16. Sophomore Erik Stai, in his first year on varsity, scored the Wildcats’ lone goal with 3:54 left in the second half off a pass from senior co-captain Eric Baumgardner.