Thousands of people drive by the Fall City totem pole every day, but few people may know the person to whom the colorful carving is dedicated. Approach the pole on foot, however, and you’ll find a half-hidden plaque dedicating it to the memory of Julia Harshman, who pioneered the local telephone company.
Important lessons are learned every day for Rebecca Dale, eye doctor and founder of Snoqualmie Falls Ophthalmology, PLLC.
Members of the King County Council voted unanimously to pursue eminent domain ownership at a closed Snoqualmie Valley Trail access point in Fall City.
Some 50 members of the Snoqualmie Tribe called for a recall of nearly half of the tribal council in a general meeting that staff and other council members say was improperly noticed and therefore invalid.
Snoqualmie Valley School District and the city of Snoqualmie have signed a deal to share school parking spaces on Snoqualmie Ridge with a planned YMCA.
Councilman Charles Peterson was the lone dissenter in the Snoqualmie City Council’s majority decision to surplus the former River Street library building.
Riding the backcountry of the Lower Snoqualmie Valley has been getting harder for equestrians like Patty Bernard. Riders have looked on in frustration as sales of timberlands in the Lower Valley shuttered trailheads that had been freely accessed for years.
In the last six months, gates have been shut and “No Trespassing” signs posted at popular sites at Griffin Creek near Carnation and the Rutherford Slough at Fall City.
Festival grounds, overflow parking, disaster assembly point — Snoqualmie’s King Street lot has played a lot of roles in past years.
The future of the lot moves in new directions this spring with the Snoqualmie City Council’s approval last week of a design competition for development at the city-owned gravel lot.
The Snoqualmie Tribe seated a new chairwoman following tribal council elections in April.
Everyone from hiking enthusiasts to local businesses and city officials had cause to celebrate last week when word was announced that public trailheads would be saved at Mount Si, Little Si, and other state-operated recreation areas in the Valley.
The Messenger of Peace doesn’t get the celebrity status of Thomas the Tank Engine or as many looks as the curious old locomotives and rusty haulers parked along Snoqualmie’s Highway 202.
But the 112-year old chapel car, a church on wheels built by the American Baptist Publication Society to bring religion to Western communities without a house of worship, may get national attention through an online vote.
Visit the Reinig Road Sycamore Corridor, a registered King County landmark, today, and you will see rows of huge, stately trees, forming a natural cathedral of arching branches and thick trunks.
But a visit with North Bend resident Harley Brumbaugh, armed with an old black and white photo, reveals a very different place.
Once faced with closure, public trails at Mount Si, Little Si, Rattlesnake Lake and the Snoqualmie River’s Middle Fork are here to stay.