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Split after tense discussion, Snoqualmie school board comes full circle on freshman center, bond
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By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
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Snoqualmie Middle School teacher Jerry Hilburn spoke with verve about how much he hates to see a district so divided, and what a “horrible idea” middle school annexation would be: “First we’re told the high school is overcrowded, then we’re told ‘no, it’s for programs.’ Which is it?”
Spring calendar, previews for Mount Si, Cedarcrest Pages 9-13
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Drug store for North Bend?
Kicking cancer
Retail redevelopment in works on Bendigo Blvd.
By Carol Ladwig
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Annexed residents say sewer fees stink Shared costs may drive homeowners out of North Bend
By Carol Ladwig
No paperwork has been filed yet, but North Bend residents along Park Street and Bendigo Boulevard are speculating about what big-name retailer, Bartell’s or Walgreen’s, might be coming to their block by the end of this year. Several lots along Bendigo and Park, in the 100 block of West Park Street may be included in a commercial redevelopment that attorney Tom Sroufe, partnering with land-owner James C. Borgen, has proposed. Sroufe said he hoped to make an announcement on the project within the month.
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Tom Andrewjeski and daughter Chloe, 8, of North Bend, make a luminary honoring her grandmother, a cancer survivor, at a Relay for Life kick off event March 10, at the Snoqualmie YMCA. Teams can register at www.relayforlife.org.
The numbers are overwhelming. The city of North Bend has been working for five months on dividing $19.27 million worth of sewer project expenses among 403 properties, both commercial and residential, which are taxed at different rates, and assessed at even more widely varying rates. The properties, absorbed in 2009 with Ron Garrow the Tanner annexation, North Bend are “odd-shaped, differ- Public Works ent-zoned, in various Director states of development,” explained Public Works Director Ron Garrow. See APPEAL, 3
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A new bond, new middle school boundaries, and a new way of handling the ninth grade transition into high school are all becoming certainties for the Snoqualmie Valley School District. With a unanimous, if reluctant vote on some board members’ parts, the
Snoqualmie Valley School Board, at nearly midnight Thursday, March 8, ordered a bond issue for construction of a new middle school, in time for the February 2013 primary election. That vote was immediately followed by a 3-2 decision to proceed with the district’s 2010 commitment to annex Snoqualmie Middle School into the Mount Si High School campus, and convert it to a freshmen-only campus, called the Freshman Learning Center (FLC).