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Principal asks parents to check computers BY DANIEL NASH ISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
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In the search for the author of a threatening letter, the principal of Pacific Cascade Middle School is asking parents to check recently used fonts on their computers — and possibly expose their children
to charges of felony harassment. The middle school campus reopened Monday morning following a winter break that began three days early due to a threatening letter found outside a classroom. The letter, discovered the morning of Dec. 17 as buses were already carrying students to school, indi-
would report new information in the case as it developed. No new information was released over the break, but the school reopened as scheduled Jan. 5, with an invitation to parents to stay on campus throughout the school day for extra security. Late afternoon Monday, Principal Dana Bailey wrote in an electronic
cated unspecified threats of violence to staff members at the end of a letter. The letter additionally promised violence at lunch time or at the school's Dec. 19 pre-break winter assembly. The Issaquah School District shut down the campus for three days as they worked with law enforcement to investigate the matter. In an email bulletin to subscribers, school officials said they
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The second annual Pine Lake Polar Bear Challenge brought more than two dozen hardy Sammamish residents out on Jan. 1 to take on an approximately three-mile run ending with a jump into Pine Lake. The air temperature was 30-degrees when the run started. Perhaps out of sympathy, no one took the temperature of the lake. Most of the runners jumped into the lake.
Huckabay re-elected as Samm. deputy mayor Sammamish City Council member Kathleen Huckabay retained her position as deputy mayor following a disputed vote during Tuesday’s council meeting. Councilwoman Nancy Whitten was attempting to nominate another council member, but Mayor Tom Vance had called for a vote to retain Huckabay.
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When Issaquah city officials met with their state lawmakers Monday for breakfast, Mayor Fred Butler asked everyone present what headline they would like to see at the end of the 2015 legislative session. “Just about everyone present picked transportation as the headline they would like to see,” Butler reported at the city council meeting held late Monday evening. The city officials held their annual legislative breakfast Monday with four of the six legislators representing the 5th and 41st districts. Lawmakers present included Reps. Judy Clibborn and Tana Senn of the 41st District, as well as Rep. Jay Rodne and Sen. Mark Mullet of the 5th District. The 41st’s Sen. Steve Litzow was absent and the 5th’s Chad Magendanz excused himself early due to illness. Of course, the truth behind Butler’s headline exercise is more complex: Giving transportation at least a run for its money were solutions for funding and the restoration of state tax distributions to cities; the compromise of medical marijuana with the recreational system warrants an honorable mention. Revenue share was certainly on Issaquah’s priority list for the session beginning Jan. 12. The state’s contributions to cities have dropped precipitously in recent years — most notably through a 50 percent cut in distributions from the liquor excise tax. “I agree with you guys,” Mullet said at the breakfast. “I think you got a raw deal on revenue share.”