Residents from a handful of Sammamish neighborhoods want their children to attend the Lake Washington School District, instead of the Snoqualmie Valley School District, according to Lake Washington School Board documents. The Lake Washington School Board formally recognized the petition Oct. 10 and began the process of negotiating whether to transfer a piece of the…
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Mount Si takes to the air in win at Interlake
Mount Si started strong, wavered and refocused to win 26-14 at Interlake. The Wildcats dominated the first half, taking a 17-0 lead into halftime. The offense faltered in the second half, but still managed to tack on another 9 points. Despite the school’s reputation for smash-mouth football, the team wasn’t afraid of putting the ball…
King County takes laissez-faire approach to medical marijuana
King County is adopting a more laissez-faire approach to medical-marijuana operations as North Bend and other cities tighten rules for patient-run collective gardens and other operations. North Bend City Council members imposed a year long moratorium on medical marijuana production and distribution facilities June 7. Issaquah, Sammamish, Federal Way, Kent and other cities have also…
County library system wins nationwide award
Library Journal Magazine, the oldest library periodical in the U.S., and Gale Publishing have named the King County Library System the Library of the Year. The nationwide honor has folks in the KCLS Valley branches, the easternmost in the system, every bit as thrilled as their coworkers to the west. “It’s a real honor to…
DirtFish Rally School draws noise complaints from neighbors
Gail McCullough works construction. She drives a dump truck for a construction company. Her husband Tim also drives a dump truck. Their workdays are full of loud noise, so they appreciate the quiet of their home the east of Snoqualmie, overlooking the former Weyerhaeuser Mill site. But the mill’s new tenant, the DirtFish Rally School,…
Snoqualmie Falls shows up in statistics classes
Snoqualmie Falls gets around. The impressive image of the cascading water has been regionally famous since cameras were first lugged to its location in the late 1800s. But Snoqualmie Falls is well known to some people for something not so obvious to visitors: data. The falls are used as an example of statistical forecasting in…
Flooding along Snoqualmie River shuts down several roads
Emergency officials have had to shut down several roads Thursday in Snoqualmie Valley due to flooding along the Snoqualmie River. Two roads in the city of Snoqualmie and several roads in unincorporated King County have been topped by floodwater. No injuries related to the flooding have been reported. The localized flooding is the result of heavy rains in…
State uses heavy artillery to keep Snoqualmie Pass safe for motorists
Keeping Snoqualmie Pass open in winter is serious work involving big explosions and a surplus U.S. Army tank. Without avalanche control, snow slides can bury vehicles or close Interstate 90, which crosses the Cascade Mountains through the pass, for hours, said John Stimberis, the Snoqualmie Pass avalanche forecaster for the Washington State Department of Transportation….
King County Elections finishes bulk of hand recount of Snoqualmie Valley school bond
It took less than two hours for eight 2-person teams of King County Elections employees to finish a hand recount of more than 9,200 ballots cast in the Feb. 8 election by Snoqualmie Valley School District voters. At issue is the district’s $56 million bond to build a new middle school. The department’s Canvassing Board…
Internal fight in Snoqualmie Tribe spills over into casino
A fight in the Snoqualmie Tribal Council prompted an unexpected $14 million buyout of the Snoqualmie Casino’s CEO, but doesn’t threaten the casino’s viability in the short-term. The decision caught many members off guard because it came only two months after the council had voted to maintain casino CEO Mike Barozzi’s contract. The experienced casino…