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Shrinking density North Bend confirms changes in lot size, over devs’ objections BY CAROL LADWIG
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Staff Reporter
Over the objections of several housing developers, and one dissenting vote, North Bend’s City Council finalized changes to its low-density residential zoning on Tuesday, Oct. 21. The changes, adopted July 1 as an interim, or emergency ordinance, increased the minimums for lot size and lot width, and bumped up the average lot size required in the city’s R4 zone. Although the city made the initial changes on short notice, the city’s planning commission, assigned to review the zone requirements following the council’s action July 1, spent several months discussing the issue. Both the City Council and the Planning Commission have also held public hearings on the changes, Aug. 19 and Sept. 11, respectively.
Mount Si volleyball faces league’s best in tournament Page 10
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Above, Seth Truscott/Staff Photo | Below, photo by Tammy Barber
What color is your sky? NB artist ponders in new kids’ book Page 9
INDEX Opinion 4 On The Scanner 5 8 Calendar 9 Puzzles 11 Obituaries Classifieds 11-14
Vol. 101, No. 24
Restoring the 115-year-old Northern Pacific Railway locomotive 924 will be an exciting challenge for Stathi Pappas, new curator of collections at Snoqualmie’s Northwest Railway Museum. The 924 is the first steam engine in the museum collection to be restored under a new program that will add a new level of authenticity to the Valley’s railway experience. Pappas’ own Santa Cruz Portland Cement 2 locomotive, running below for Halloween Train rides, gives the museum a working model to train volunteers.
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Northwest Railway Museum bringing locomotives back to life with steam program
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Valley school warns of spreading virus By Valley Record Staff
Stathi Pappas, the new curator of collections at the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie, hikes up the tracks to see Locomotive 924. This 1899 engine, about to be pulled out of the immobile lineup along Railroad Avenue, once pulled trains around yards in Seattle and Tacoma, then hauled freight for a paper company.
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease has been confirmed at Cedarcrest High School, reports school nurse Jackie Boak, in an e-mail sent to Cedarcrest families Oct. 30. The disease, caused by a form of enterovirus, is painful but not lifethreatening. It is not related to hoofand-mouth disease, although the names are similar. It can cause flu-like symptoms, and sores or blisters in and around the mouth, hands, feet and legs.
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BY SETH TRUSCOTT Editor
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