Snoqualmie Valley Record, September 02, 2015

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Marking a milestone

Man found dead on city street Saturday

Bike collector shares vintage wheels at North Bend VIC Page 2 Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo

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Wendy Thomas of Carmichael’s Hardware gets a little help from the audience as she sings “On the Boardwalk” in celebration of Snoqualmie’s nearly complete phase of work on the Historic Downtown infrastructure project, Saturday afternoon. See page 3 for more on the city’s milestone celebration.

Union and Confederate soldiers battle the weather Page 9

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King County Sheriff’s detectives are investigating the death of a man found on the side of a road in the Edgewick neighborhood of North Bend, just after midnight Saturday, Aug. 30. The man, unidentified so far, had significant head trauma, according to Detective Jason Stanley, spokesperson for the King County Sheriff’s Office. Because the case is under investigation, little information is publicly available. “We believe a car was involved,” said Stanley, adding that people involved in the case are cooperating with police.

Shifting soil at high school could change gym plans By CAROL LADWIG Editor

A new high school gym was not part of the plan in the $244 million bond issue that Snoqualmie Valley School District voters approved in February, but it might be soon, depending on how the school board decides to proceed at its next meeting, Sept. 10. The new gym complex, estimated to cost $6.4 million as part of the overall renovation of Mount Si High School — about half of what it could cost as a stand-alone project — is being recommended by both

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Engineers have proposed to build a new gym complex, in light blue, as part of the Mount Si High School rebuild. The gym would be located between the classroom wing and the performing arts center, blue-green, to be built where the gym is now. administrative staff and the architects contracted to complete the schematic design of the building.

In his update to the school board at its Aug. 27 meeting, Matt Rumbaugh of NAC Architecture explained that

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