Snoqualmie Valley restaurants and pubs plan to celebrate New Year’s Eve
December 31, 2010
Several restaurants and cafes are planning parties for New Year’s Eve in Snoqualmie Valley.
The Riverbend Cafe in North Bend is having dinner, dancing and a champagne toast at midnight. The party starts at 7 p.m. Call 888-6600 to reserve a space.
Icy roads in Snoqualmie Valley cause minor accidents and delay waste pick up
December 30, 2010
Icy roads caused a few minor accidents in North Bend, and delayed garbage and recycling collection in Snoqualmie on Thursday.
“We’ve had several accidents around here today,” said Ron Garrow, North Bend’s Public Works director.
But crews were working to keep driving conditions as safe as possible.
“We’ve been sanding as much as we can,” Garrow said. “We’ll do more sanding tomorrow, too.”
Second-graders get glimpse of hard past at Pioneer Craft Days
December 30, 2010
If you don’t ask, you won’t get an answer.
That doesn’t mean the question has to be a likeable one. But after two weeks of learning about the 19th century settlers of the Snoqualmie Valley, someone in that second-grade class at North Bend Elementary was bound to ask.
And ask a student did, and second-grade teacher Chrissy McCloskey had to tell her student that no, she was not born in 1804 and no, she was not a 19th century settler of the Snoqualmie Valley.
North Bend men face theft charges for taking rails from Northwest Railway Museum
December 30, 2010
Two North Bend men are facing first degree theft charges for allegedly stealing railway track rails from the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie.
The museum’s director, Richard Anderson contacted the Snoqualmie Police Department on the morning of May 10 to report that rails worth an estimated $32,000 had been taken from the museum’s facility on Stone Quarry Road.
Earlier that morning, a museum employee had been at the QFC in North Bend, and he had seen a white Ford pickup following a flatbed trailer loaded with rails. Thinking it odd, he wrote down the trailer’s license plate number, which he later gave to police.
Snoqualmie offers drop-off sites for Christmas trees
December 30, 2010
The city of Snoqualmie is suggesting many ways to dispose of a Christmas tree after the holidays.
First, the Boy Scouts will collect trees curbside Jan. 8. Trees must be in driveways by 8 a.m. A city press release suggested a $10 donation to the Boy Scouts Of America’s Troop 425. Donations can be left inside an envelope attached to the base of the tree. Scouts have been distributing envelopes since mid-December.
The former Weyerhaeuser Mill site at 38800 S.E. Mill Pond Road will accept trees for free from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Dec. 31 and Jan. 8. Neither the Boy Scouts nor the former mill site accept flocked trees, tinsel, decorations or tree nails.
Freezing temperatures Wednesday night could bring ice to Snoqualmie Valley roads
December 29, 2010
Wet snow blanketed Snoqualmie Valley on Wednesday morning, but it did little to disrupt traffic. However, colder temperatures Wednesday night could cause ice to form on some roads, creating potentially dangerous driving conditions on some roads.
Much of Wednesday’s snowfall had melted off by afternoon, but it did cause King County Metro to reroute its 209 bus route in the morning due to slick roads around the North Bend Premium Outlets, according to Linda Thielke, a spokeswoman for Metro.
Snoqualmie and North Bend reported no serious problems on their roads. Both cities had crews out clearing roads early.
Michigan-based homebuilder buys residential lots on Snoqualmie Ridge
December 29, 2010
A Michigan-based homebuilding company has purchased several hundred lots in the Snoqualmie Ridge II Development, a joint venture of Quadrant Homes and Murray Franklyn Family of Companies.
The buyer, Pulte Group, of Bloomfield, Mich., built some houses in the first phase of development on Snoqualmie Ridge.
“This is an opportunity for the Pulte Group to establish an ongoing relationship with both Murray Franklyn and Quadrant, two of the Pacific Northwest’s most established and well respected home builders,” said John Ochsner, the company’s Pacific Northwest Division President, in a public statement.
Local group of investors looking into keeping Isadora’s open
December 29, 2010
Isadora’s Cafe in Snoqualmie is closing on Jan. 1 but possibly for only a short while.
The restaurant’s co-owner Jody Sands says that a group of local investors has told her they want to reopen Isadora’s in February.
The group includes Chris Coffing, who opened Isadora’s in 1993, according to Sands.
Sands and her husband, Mike, bought the cafe from Coffing in December 2008.
One year into office, King County Executive Dow Constantine touts his successes and county’s financial future
December 29, 2010
After his first year in office, King County Executive Dow Constantine says his reform agenda has put the county on a path to financial stability, while juggling problems that have popped up along the way.
Constantine credited the help of his leadership team and King County employees in a public statement.
Among the accomplishments he is touting are creating a regional partnership with cities for animal services, reaching consensus with regional leaders on reforms to Metro bus service, completing and adopting the first-ever countywide strategic plan, and reforming the permitting pay model for the Department of Development and Environmental Services.
Snow but not ice expected in Snoqualmie Valley
December 28, 2010
Snow could be on the way for lowlands, but don’t expect the cold blast that produced icy roads before Thanksgiving Day.
Snoqualmie and North Bend could receive 1 to 3 inches of snow on Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.
But above-freezing temperatures should keep roads ice free, according to Cliff Mass, a meteorologist at the University of Washington.
