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Mount Si football begins playoff run Page 8
November 8, 2012 VOL. 4, NO. 45
Fire service budget EFR set to pass a new budget. Page 2
Mill site discussion Chamber hosts a talk about the mill site. Page 3
Access road closed Except for emergency vehicles. Page 3
Dancing queen Local girl represents the region in dance contest. Page 6
By the dawn’s early light
By Jim Robison
In October just before the rains began, Jim Robison, of Snoqualmie, took a drive on Mill Pond Road just east of the Salish Lodge and snapped this shot of the sun rising over Mount Si reflected in the water.
School board to vote on North Bend company middle school boundaries will help military vote State-bound Volleyball team searches for revenge in tourney. Page 8
Police blotter
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Prsrt Std U.S. Postage PAID Kent, WA Permit No. 71 POSTAL CUSTOMER
By Sebastian Moraga On Oct. 30, Snoqualmie Valley School District school board members got an F. Jeff Hogan, executive director of technology services for the district, presented a committee’s recommendation that the board adopt Option F as the new middle school boundaries for the district. Option F, one of three final options available, would send all fifth-graders and all Snoqualmie Middle School sixth- and-seventh graders from both Fall City and Snoqualmie to Chief Kanim Middle School starting in 2013, with the exception of Cascade View Elementary fifth-graders.
Students at CVES, along with students from North Bend and all the way to the southeast corner of the district would attend Twin Falls Middle School. The recommendation ended a seven-week period of surveys, meetings and discussions, setting the table for a 6:30 p.m. Nov. 8 vote at the Snoqualmie City Hall. “Option F best serves the district until such time that the district returns to having three middle schools,” Hogan said. The current Snoqualmie Middle School — housing about 460 students — will become a freshman learning center in the See BOUNDARY, Page 2
By Michele Mihalovich A U.S. soldier in Kandahar, Afghanistan, a missionary in Africa, the U.S. ambassador to France, and even the American astronaut up in the International Space Station will have a much easier time filling out voting ballots this election. Bryan Finney, a North Bend resident and owner of DemocracyLive, said his firm, with 22 employees, was selected by the U.S. Department of Defense to deliver Web-based ballots to overseas American voters, which the DoD estimates is 6.5 million eligible voters.
“Just imagine how high voter turnout would be if people could vote from their tablets and smart phones.” — Brian Finney Business owner
Finney said his eBalloting system speeds up the process for absentee voters. Election officials around the nation snail mail ballots to military and other overseas voters, and often times, ballots See VOTE, Page 2