Author: Sherry Grindeland

Some decisions are no brainers – what we’re having for dinner or what to wear to work tomorrow. Then there are the life-changing ones that come when we face and make seemingly impossible decisions, even knowing that when they are made, the paths of our life will forever be altered. That’s what author Eva Moon…

Beads, yes. Hurricane drinks on the sidewalk, no. But in North Bend it will be the traditional “laissez les bons temps rouler” when the Mardi Gras celebration takes to the streets at 5 p.m. March 4. “Laissez les bons temps rouler” is the Mardi Gras slogan and means “Let the good times roll.” Mardi Gras…

Organizers from both food banks agree: The important thing is to provide food for the needy people in the Snoqualmie Valley. Unfortunately, things will be confusing for a week or two for those who need food, those who donate and those who volunteer.   The newly-formed Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank opens Feb. 5 at the…

Small ferns wave in the slight afternoon breeze. Tiny strands of moss send out feelers along a blackened boulder. Saplings, just a few inches tall, sprout at the base of a fire-scorched tree. The forest between Mount Si and Little Si has begun regenerating itself.   Three months after the 444th Fire burned 18 acres,…