Night work began this week on S.R. 203 in Duvall, but the main event, requiring a complete eight-day closure of the road between Valley Street and Kennedy Drive, is still about two weeks out.
A lot has changed in the four-plus years since Black Canyon Hydro, a hydropower development firm, began talks about a proposed power plant on the North Fork of the Snoqualmie River. Two things, though, Black Canyon’s intentions to pursue the project, and affected residents’ opposition to it, have stayed consistent.
Snoqualmie officials have no plans to discipline or dismiss Police Officer Nick Hogan.
North Bend is known as a recreation destination for hikers, mountain bikers, kayakers, both nearby and distant, novice and experienced. The climbers we tend to see out here are more of the expert variety, but that is beginning to change, say the staff at Pro Ski and Mountain Service.
In a statement issued Friday afternoon, Snoqualmie officials publicly placed their confidence in Officer Nick Hogan, the subject of a recent Seattle Times story on court cases settled by Hogan’s former employer, the city of Tukwila, in 2013 and 2014.
Every election year, we see a jump in the number of letters to the editor, endorsing particular candidates or ballot measures.
A new proposal for the remodel of Mount Si High School would shorten the construction timeline from eight years to three and streamline the transition back to a comprehensive (grades 9 to 12) school building.
Al Rush has been the independent sort his whole life. It’s clear from the stories of his childhood in Massachusetts, where he worked as a pin-setter in a bowling alley and sometimes hitched a ride to Boston to see the Red Sox play —and from his present-day lifestyle of doing what he wants, when he wants, but regularly volunteering at Carnation’s Hopelink food bank, just because — that he’s always done things his own way.
Fire officials give out the numbers all day — record numbers of fireworks permits sold in Washington this year, 432 incidents of traumatic injury and fire damage directly attritibuted to fireworks on or near July 4, 2014, 306 wildfires started already this year. People talk about the high risk of fire in the coffee shops, on the radio, and in online community groups. I’ve been hearing about it several times a day for the past month, and noticing the August-level rivers everywhere I drive.
Snoqualmie Valley School District schools wished students and staff a happy summer Wednesday, June 17, with send-off celebrations throughout the district. At Fall City Elementary, though, there were mixed emotions.
Part of the Snoqualmie Valley Trail north of Carnation is officially closed this week, and will be through October. It has to be closed, because right now, a small stretch of it doesn’t actually exist.
Too slow. That’s what I was thinking as I scanned the crowd at Cedarcrest High School’s graduation ceremony last Friday. Austin Jenckes had just come on stage for a surprise musical performance for the students. He was getting set up, just about ready to sing, and I was not in position for the photo I wanted to get. I knew it would be there, just didn’t know where, and I knew I didn’t have a lot of time.
First, Fall City was known for its floaters, the hundreds of people who drift down the Snoqualmie River on sunny days in inflatable vessels of some sort. Soon, though, the little community at the confluence of the Snoqualmie and Raging Rivers, and the junction of State Routes 202 and 203, could be known for its Honkers.
