When three blue book collection bins appeared in North Bend, Penny Humphrey did not think to give them a second thought. As President of the Friends of the North Bend Library, Humphrey was more concerned with organizing library programs with money earned from the library’s annual two-week book sale. Normally, the friends fill more than…
Year: 2009
Churches, businesses hit with white supremacist graffiti
A 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….
Arson scars Snoqualmie Depot, City Hall
Officials say three downtown Snoqualmie fires in one night were the work of an arsonist. The fires were reported in the early morning hours of June 30. The first fire was reported just after 2 a.m. at the Snoqualmie Depot of the Northwest Railway Museum on Railroad Avenue. The fire was set inside a plastic…