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Board picks bigger high school, lower bond rate Rebuild of Mount Si, room for 2,300, with elementary, goes to voters in Feb. BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter
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Voters will decide on a $246 million school bond in the Snoqualmie Valley School District in February. The district’s board of directors voted
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architects, the board has reached for something in between. Following several reports on enrollment projections, board member Dan Popp said, “It struck me as though the 2,400-capacity school is an overcapacity question, based on enrollment projections, and the 2,100 is…. obviously not big enough.” SEE SCHOOL BOND, 2
Deja vu? Happening again: ‘Twin Peaks’ television phenomenon returns to small screen in 2016 Worldwide, fans of the 1990-91 television show “Twin Peaks,” celebrated last week when a long-awaited season three was announced, to air on Showtime in 2016. Locally, they snapped up tickets to the Twin Peaks Festival, which are now sold out for the 22nd annual gathering of show-lovers and Lynch-followers, July 24 to 27 in and around North Bend. SEE TWIN PEAKS, 4
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The Andersons, Alexander, Olga (with an early prototype) and Alex, are developing electrical generating technology like this wind turbine that Alexander is fine-tuning at their North Bend home.
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4 to 1 on Oct. 9 to proceed with a bond, slightly revised from the proposal under discussion for the past year. A sixth elementary school, $20 million in repairs and updates to other district buildings, and a high school rebuild to bring freshmen back onto the main campus are all still components of the bond. Yet instead of either the staff-recommended 2,400-student high school, or the 2,100-student high school proposed by
High achiever NB teen’s electric project taking him places BY CAROL LADWIG
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Pat Cokewell, former owner of the Mar-T Cafe (now Twede’s) snapped this photo during filming of “Twin Peaks” in 1990. Pictured are actors Dana Ashbrook, Mädchen Amick and director David Lynch. Showtime is recreating the series 25 years after it ended.
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Alexander Anderson is no head-in-the-clouds academic. On paper, he may seem like one, having graduated high school, earned a bachelor of science degree, started classes for his master’s degree, accumulated a stack of research for his doctorate, surpassed a theoretical limitation on electricity production, and started a company, Odin Energy Works, all by the age of 18. Alexander,
though, knows how to talk to people, and when to go easy on his non-scientific audience. “This is just math,” he tells me on a recent sunny day at his North Bend home. He clicks through slides of a presentation he’s giving at a science symposium Nov. 1 in Everett. The screen fills with mathematical equations, 10 or 12 characters long, not one of them a number. “More math, more math,” he continues, then finally, words. “First, you have the Betz limit,” he says. That’s the highest level of efficiency you can expect from an open-rotor wind turbine, 59 percent. Anderson, with help from his parents, Alex, a mechanical engineer and aircraft and inspector, and Olga, a consultant, started trying to beat Betz “a long, long time ago,” he says, when he was 14. SEE ACHIEVER, 23
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