The wild Pacific Northwest can pull at any artist’s imagination, whether that artist is a painter, writer, photographer or unsuspecting hiker. The region’s gloomy winters, dense forests, rugged mountains and deep Puget Sound act as an ideal backdrop for mysteries, thrillers, UFO sightings and legends. Ask any “Twin Peaks” fan who has visited the Snoqualmie…
Author: Laura Geggel
Two killed, two injured in I-90 crash
UPDATED — 2:49 p.m. June 29, 2010 A 30-year-old man and his 26-year old wife were killed in a one-car rollover accident just after 6:45 a.m. June 29 at Interstate 90’s milepost 34, near North Bend. Three other passengers in the car — the couple’s 4-year-old son, and two family friends from Spanaway, a 15-year-old…
Mill site could become rally car course
NEW — 3:03 p.m. March 24, 2010 Rally car aficionado Greg Lund wants to put a little zoom in Snoqualmie Valley. The Issaquah native plans to buy Weyerhaeuser’s old mill site, located above Borst Lake in Snoqualmie, and build a rally car-driving course that would open this fall. Not everyone, especially the neighbors, is happy…
Valley residents turn to the earth for their home heating needs
True to his last name, Jack Greathouse decided to build a place of his own, complete with geothermal heating. He and his wife, 1983 Mount Si graduate Melinda Horiuchi, bought property in North Bend near Mount Si Road and have been working on their house for the past two years. Greathouse spent part of that…
Muckleshoot Tribe hunts black bears in Valley
The Cedar River Watershed is normally closed to hunters, but for three weekends in October, the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe was allowed to hunt up to nine black bears.While hunting is allowed in areas across the state, the Cedar River Watershed has been closed to trespassers, including hunters, since 1911. That changed in October, when the…
Cedar Falls Watershed offers free Twilight Tour
Grab your flashlight and bug spray before heading out to the free Twilight Tour offered by the Cedar River Watershed Institute. The third annual tour will showcase the historic Cedar Falls town site, the birthplace of Seattle City Light. The tour will be held from 6-8:30 p.m. Sept. 12 and from 4-6:30 p.m. Sept. 13….
Mount Si High School to get geothermal system
Captain Planet would likely approve of the Snoqualmie Valley School District’s updated light bulbs, not to mention its new geothermal system at Mount Si High School. Using funds from a $27.5 million school bond, construction crews are changing all of the district’s inefficient light bulbs, as well as installing improved heating, ventilation and air conditioning…
Local book donations down this year
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…
Snoqualmie Valley schools cut nine teachers
Snoqualmie Valley School District issued cuts to nine teachers May 13. The district’s expenditure reduction plan, a blueprint for the 2009-2010 budget, required that the district shave 19.5 certified teachers, but attrition lowered the number the district had to release. Of the nine teachers, two of them were part-time. The district would not say how…
School district weights potential I-728 cuts
The Snoqualmie Valley School District may have to sack teachers if the state Legislature does not fully fund Initiative-728. At a public hearing March 12, district administrators reviewed Initiative-728 funds and showed three options available to the school board regarding how to handle Initiative-728 money. The district is required to have an Initiative-728 hearing every…