The inboxes of the North Bend City Council and staff members and police had been filling up with complaints about things going on at the North Bend Library, but Police Chief Mark Toner said the library has followed through with its promise to make some changes and he’s hearing very few complaints from the public…
Year: 2013
Police blotter
North Bend No big deal Police took a report at 7:15 a.m. April 13 of a possible drug deal on Main Avenue South. Police checked the area but found nothing. Stop following me Police took a report at 4:51 p.m. April 13 of three males on South Fork Avenue Southwest. The males appeared…
Letters
Thank you for supporting the first North Bend Blues Walk The first-ever North Bend Blues Walk was a great success thanks to everyone involved. More than 1,200 people came out April 20, filling 13 venues downtown. Following in the same fashion as the successful Jazz Walk in September, music could be found all up and…
Battle of the books brings students into the library
The Fall City Elementary School library was packed with people, students and adults, and a nervous tension is in the air. Students sitting on the floor held construction paper pennants and poster boards with team names on them. “In which book does a character eat a delicious shelled fruit called a rambutan?” librarian Meg Handy…
Project Crayon Drive collects crayons for Seattle Children’s
For the eighth year in a row, Cascade Team Real Estate is collecting crayons and coloring books for hospitalized children. Every year, Seattle Children’s goes through 240,000 crayons, according to the Cascade Team Real Estate website. Amid the medicine and blankets, something as simple as crayons and coloring books are often overlooked, but are just…
Students draw close to friends through Anime
An old Disney cartoon starring Donald Duck and Pluto was called “The Eyes Have It.” No word on how prescient ol’ Walt was back in 1945, but he might have well been talking about a different brand of cartooning hailing from Asia: Anime. Anime’s young acolytes in the Snoqualmie Valley all agree that expressive peepers…
Hoof rot strikes elk
Corrected version. The earlier story said Erland found that the three elk had selenium and copper deficiencies. Elk hoof rot, a disease seen predominantly among elk in Southwest Washington, has found its way to the Snoqualmie Valley herds. Harold Erland, a wildlife biologist with the local Elk Management Group, said Feb. 20 that three elk…
Missing Redmond man shot himself at Rattlesnake Ridge
A Redmond man missing near Rattlesnake Ridge was found dead at about 10 a.m. Feb. 9, according to Jim Bove, spokesman for the Redmond Police Department. Bove said King County Search and Rescue found the body of Ira Thomas Clodfelter, 28, about three-quarters of a mile from the main trail, and it appeared to be…
Search ends for skydiver
After four days of trying to find a skydiver who went missing when he jumped from a helicopter near Mount Si, King County Sheriff’s Office has officially called off the search. Sgt. Cindi West with the sheriff’s office said Jan. 7 that 386 search and rescue volunteers from 19 different agencies had gone over about…