John Linder’s fingertips are cracked and calloused from long hours spent handling thread and needle.
Taking aim at narrow Carnation highways and rails installed by the state this spring, lifelong Valley resident Jackie Perriguoe has founded a group called Voters for a Safer 203. She has called a town hall meeting for 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30, at Tolt Middle School, inviting state and local officials and demanding new road standards with more space for bike lanes and shoulders.
A North Bend girl is on a mission to save and protect animals threatened by the Gulf Coast oil spill.
If you blinked, you probably missed the summer. A cool and rainy ‘dry’ season made for fewer Snoqualmie Valley tourists, slimmer local pocketbooks—even a potential pumpkin shortage shaping up for fall. The weather fun may be just starting. Last week, forecasters with the National Weather Service announced that La Niña is back.
A second round of public input on YMCA priorities and design is 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28, at Snoqualmie City Hall.
To historians like Fall City public artist Don Fels, history itself is under siege in the landmark Sycamore Corridor outside Snoqualmie.
As Mount Si High School students and teachers handled the big stuff, like full classes, fresh faces and new technology, Liz Piekarczyk handled the tissues.
With more than a hundred students shuffling in and out of every classes daily, many with summer-cold sniffles, the Mount Si PTSA co-president’s deliveries of tissues, part of a teacher wish list program, were a vital but potentially overlooked necessity.
What’s the Snoqualmie City Council going to do about school impact fees? Valley council members weigh in this month on the latest set of fees, which are levied annually by school districts and collected by cities and the county to provide funds for school growth. Fees are based on the premise that the more houses are built, the more potential schoolchildren that districts will have to house and educate.
When you’re used to writing 400-word stories, 140 characters doesn’t seem like a lot of text. But it’s surprising how much you can convey through a tweet.
The Valley Record signed up this summer for Twitter, the social networking and microblogging service that today claims more than 100 million users. Twitter users create 140-character posts that other users can follow.
Valley course’s scenery hits the spot for Edmonds’ Bob Kelly
Some city officials and developers are showing signs of sticker shock over Snoqualmie Valley School District impact fees set to take a 300-percent leap next year.
Fees are collected during construction to offset the impact of new development on school capacity, and have averaged about $3,100 annually over the last four years. However, the district’s proposed 2011 fee of $8,139 per single family residence is a $5,400 increase over 2010.
Ears were ringing Saturday morning, Aug. 21, as the Seattle Seafair Pirates made way down main street in the Snoqualmie Railroad Days Parade.
Atop an antique fire engine, gunner Arnie Stray of Kirkland stuffed two ounces of old, smoky black powder and a wad of five squares of high-grade toilet tissue into a steel barrel, then lit the fuse, sending out a plume of smoke and a lot of noise.
Sunlight dappled the grounds of the Grand Hunter Ring at Remlinger Farms Equestrian Center as trainer Lee Dennie rode Pharlee toward a four-foot-tall hurdle of wooden poles decorated with flowers.