Crab feed for charity
March 3, 2010
NEW — 4:00 p.m. March 3, 2010
Craving a crab? Join the Relay for Life of Snoqualmie Valley at its second annual crab feed, 5:30-7:30 p.m. March 6 at Snoqualmie Eagles, 8200 Railroad Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie.
Mount Si graduate and Marine dies in combat in Afghanistan
March 3, 2010
Eric Ward (Photo contributed by family)
By Brian Rosenthal, Seattle Times reporter
UPDATED — 2:35 p.m. March 3, 2010
Friends and family described Eric L. Ward, a 19-year-old Marine from Redmond and Mount Si graduate who died Feb. 21 in Afghanistan, as a proud and generous man who kept everybody around him laughing.
Snoqualmie Valley group seeks to separate elk and humans with seeds
March 3, 2010
NEW — 2:30 p.m. March 3, 2010
The Upper Snoqualmie Valley Elk Management Group wants to get the area’s elk some privacy — and diminish their interactions with humans.
Veterans program helps Valley vets, families housing, medical referrals
March 3, 2010
NEW — 1:40 p.m. March 3, 2010
Shannon Barrie, who hadn’t seen her father in years, suddenly found herself taking care of him in his old age.
James Arthur Barrie has dementia, and although he is aware of the present during his lucid periods, his daughter realized she didn’t have the resources to care for him on her own. She called Adult Protective Services. When they learned her father was a veteran of the U.S. Navy, they referred her to Joel Estey, manager of the King County Veterans’ Program.
Snoqualmie Valley schools face dire budget cuts
March 3, 2010
NEW — 1:55 p.m. March 3, 2010
The Snoqualmie Valley School District is facing a difficult fiscal year and in a worst case scenario, would have to lay off up to 26 teachers, business director Ron Ellis said at the Feb. 25 school board meeting.
Parents demand answers from school district
March 3, 2010
NEW — 1:42 p.m. March 3, 2010
A group of parents and teachers led a heated discussion about how the school district should expand during a comment period held by the Snoqualmie Valley School Board Feb. 25.
SLIDESHOW | Getting patients to safety when seconds matter
March 3, 2010
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NEW — 1:37 p.m. March 3, 2010
Murray Lorance said he didn’t feel so good. Pale and disoriented, he wandered into the Snoqualmie Valley Hospital emergency room, complaining of chest pain.
Police blotter, March 3
March 3, 2010
North Bend
Drinking and weaving
New school funding plan discussed in Olympia
March 3, 2010
NEW — 1:35 p.m. March 3, 2010
A new statewide basic education-funding plan is making its way through the Legislature this session.
David Iseminger, a Lake Stevens school director who represented school directors on a working group tasked with financing basic education, may provide a stable funding system under the requirements of Engrossed Senate and House Bill 2261, adopted in 2009.
Roll call, March 3
March 3, 2010
Y = Yes, N = No, E = Excused, X = Not Voting
Senate Bill 6130 passed the House 51-47, to temporarily repeal provisions of the voter-approved Initiative 960 until July 1, 2011. Senate concurred with House amendments 26-21 and the bill was signed into law by the governor.
