Mount Si and Cedarcrest High School students have donated hundreds of pounds of food and other essentials in the past month, as part of their traditional collections for people in need.
Although the schools no longer face each other on the football field, groups at both high schools are in the midst of their annual “Foodball” food drives, an event named for the annual Valley Cup football game between Mount Si and Cedarcrest. The event isn’t a contest between schools, but it still stirs the competitive spirit in both districts. Elementary schools vie to raise more donations of food and cash than their high schools, and at the high schools, students compete by class, and by period.
Jenevieve Fisher was a 22-year-old college student, pursuing a career as a child psychologist for terminally ill children, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Disease, a type of cancer.
It was difficult for Fisher’s kid sister Mallory, 20 years her junior, to understand why her big sister, who was always playing sports, was suddenly sick and beginning to lose her hair.
Most autumns, Halloween is a big deal at the Nursery at Mount Si. Families take their pick of a sea of pumpkins in the North Bend nusery’s field, and hay rides, cider and popcorn treats turn the visit into a picturesque excursion.
This season is different. Owner Nels Melgaard will shut down for the winter at the end of sales this month, because foul weather and a rampaging herd of elk did in his pumpkin patch.
After six years in a Railroad Avenue storefront, Snoqualmie’s Bella Vita Spa & Salon makes its move this month to a new location—just across the street.
Growth at the busy Truck Town hub was at the center of an hour-long discussion last week on future development in North Bend’s Tanner Annex.
Making way for Mount Si High School freshmen, Snoqualmie Middle School’s 420 students will move to a campus that is familiar yet new.
The Snoqualmie Valley School District Board of Directors last week approved a $50 million middle school design based on North Bend’s Twin Falls Middle School for a 40-acre site on Snoqualmie Ridge.
With most Valley students involved in team sports, many community parents want to support them.
For the third year, Bruce Brown, a motivational speaker and experienced coach, will help give that parent support direction in a talk on adult roles in athletics, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29, at Snoqualmie Middle School.
Mount Si High School freshmen could attend a different kind of high school at a Snoqualmie Middle School annex starting in 2013, under the latest recommendation by a Snoqualmie Valley School District committee.
For 28 years, Jeanne Marie Klein has scratched customers’ itch for a vintage find at her Bad Girls Antiques storefront in North Bend.
But with changing technology and rising upkeep, it is time for Klein to shut her doors. Bad Girls closes in North Bend at the end of September.
City planners are weighing approval this fall of a proposed expansion of trucking services in North Bend.
Bookstore owner Jackie Arbor gets a lot of surprised looks from customers walking inside Phoenix Books.
The North Bend store, based out of a small house on Bendigo Boulevard, looks small, but its interior contains more than 10,000 books.
Snoqualmie Valley School Board President Caroline Loudenback pounded her gavel numerous times, quieting the room during a heated impromptu comment…
North Bend’s contentious amendment allowing hotels to be built south of I-90 doesn’t look like it will be invoked soon.