Local
Churches, businesses hit with white supremacist graffitiA swastika and other white supremacist graffiti were drawn in spray paint on the side of the Church of the Nazarene in Snoqualmie June 9.
As shocking as that may have seemed to some, however, the act is actually anything but unusual. According to officials in the Valley, church vandalism is running rampant this summer.
“We’ve never had this much before and it seems to be targeting the churches,” Snoqualmie police spokeswoman Becky Munson said.
Over the month of June, Snoqualmie police received eight reports of vandalism involving white supremacist graffiti. Graffiti was spray painted both on the walls of churches and at Mount Si High School recently. A Christian bookstore in Snoqualmie was hit twice by acts of vandalism.

'White Power' was spray painted on the wall at the Church of the Nazarene in Snoqualmie.
Sports
Mount Si girls basketball gets new head coach
Megan Marson isn’t offering too much as to what kind of high school coach she’ll be.
But if the Mount Si girls basketball team shows an extra amount of competitiveness this season, feel free to throw a little of the blame her way.
“I’m really competitive,” Marson said. “Even in board games, I’ll sit down and always want to win.”
So goes the new leader of the Mount Si girls, who was announced last week as the replacement for Dirk Hansen. A product of Leavenworth, Wash., Marson takes over the reigns of the Wildcats after spending four years coaching a variety of middle-school sports in the district.

Megan Marson was hired last week as the new girls basketball coach at Mount Si High School.
Schools
Cascade View students offer salmon to bus shelter
Forget about bird watchers. It’s the salmon that are on the loose.
This summer, Metro riders at the Railroad Avenue Southeast bus stop near Sahara Pizza will get a fishy eyeful at their bus stop. As part of a beautification project, the third-grade students at Cascade View Elementary painted the bus shelter panels with salmon swimming against a blue background.
Cascade View PTSA President Lorraine Thurston first thought of the idea when she noticed some painted bus shelters in downtown Seattle. After some research, Thurston learned the Metro Bus Shelter Mural Program donates all of the materials, including the panels and paint, so long as a group submits a graffiti-discouraging design.

Amanda Wright, left, and Jessica Conlon work on a fish mural for a bus stop shelter in Snoqualmie.

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Opinion
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Sports
Mount Si girls basketball gets new head coach
Snoqualmie Valley club gets locals out and running
Schools
Cascade View students offer salmon to bus shelter
Mount Si High School honors its volunteers
Elementary students score well on prestigious test
Students happily return to boomerang lessons
Community
North Bend triplets celebrate first birthday
Local book donations down this year
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