Snoqualmie Valley School District has laid off 9 teachers and has not filled 11.5 full-time positions as part of cutting nearly $4.1 million from the district’s general budget.
The way Max Ashbridge sees it, the best part of “Mother-Son Mania” is the balloons.
The King Conservation District will hold a series of six public comment sessions in May and June, including an upcoming Carnation session, to gather citizen input on conservation priorities and programs that would be funded by the reauthorization of the district’s special assessment tax.
King County businesses last year sent 220 tons of materials to landfills that could have been recycled, saving money, natural resources and space in landfills, according to King County Solid Waste Division.
MUSIC AND COMEDY
• SMS — Book fair starts
Opstad Elementary School’s cafeteria looked more like a carnival during Friday’s Family Fun Night. The annual spring event featured dancing, cheap food, ring tosses, face painting and other activities for students, siblings and parents.
Despite tough competition, Fall City Elementary School held on to win the Battle of the Books for the second year in a row. Sydney Hydell, Madison Hydell, Martin Rasmussen, Ein Chang and team captain Emma Mischke matched their knowledge of 14 books against teams from each elementary school. The books had been selected by librarians from the elementary schools for the Friday, May 8 event.
Legion to hold Memorial Day ceremonies
Valley residents can help honor local heroes by attending two special screenings of the story of an American hero.
After running for twenty minutes, Mason DeCola was out of breath and flush-faced. But the kindergarten student at Cascade View Elementary School didn’t want to stop running laps with his classmates on the school’s soccer field. He’d already run 16 laps, or two miles.
Bear sightings were reported near Snoqualmie Middle School, Cascade View Elementary School and Snoqualmie Fire Station, on Monday morning, May 11.