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By Daniel Nash
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The city of Bonney Lake will be allowed one marijuana retailer, according to revised proposed rules submitted Wednesday by the Liquor Control Board. With the submission, the rules concerning the white market for marijuana sales are one pass away from their scheduled adoption Oct. 16. A public hearing
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Weather The forecast for today, Wednesday, calls for highs to 91 with light 11 mph winds form the southeast. Overnight lows are predicted to drop to 62. Thursday calls for highs to 83 with Friday to 78 with partly sunny skies. Saturday and Sunday the forecast is for 75 with overnight lows to 57.
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Chad Chapin, a professional musician and owner of Nashville-based Pro Music Academy, recently opened a Bonney Lake satellite studio to connect music students to touring musicians via Skype. Photo by Daniel Nash
Name that dial tone A music academy connects students to pro musicians via Skype By Daniel Nash Staff Writer
On a Tuesday afternoon, Nashville musician Chad Chapin was giving a tour of his new remote learning classroom at Michelle’s Studio of Dance in Bonney Lake. The room is set up with an upright piano, drum set, four guitars — two acoustic, two electric
— arranged standing in a semicircle around a stool, and a lone webcam on a tripod stand. Chapin aimed the camera at the piano’s ivories, which were now being transmitted to a television mounted on the wall, and had begun walking through the student experience when an incoming Skype call replaced his hands on the flatscreen. “So let’s say a student has a lesson at 4 p.m., they just sit at the piano with the camera pointed like so,” Chapin said. “So the instructor can-” The call comes in. Chapin answered and the image on screen
Puget Sound real estate sees rise in demand By Theresa De Lay
became a man sitting at home, positioned in front of a keyboard, headphones on his head to prevent echoes from the other side of the call. “Oh, that was perfect timing,” Chapin said. “This is Andrew Higley, one of our instructors, and right now he’s calling from Cincinatti. So let’s say a student has a lesson with Andrew at 4 p.m. They sit at the piano and during the lesson they can look directly at him, and he sees his students’ hands on the keys — and if you look in the corner of the screen, that’s what our camera is showing
Many regions have started seeing healthier real estate markets emerge as the country begins rebounding from the market crash. Among them is the greater Puget Sound, according to the Northwest Multiple Listing Service. The listing service reports that pending sales for the month of August showed an 8.7 percent increase from one year ago. Rising prices, swift
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