The next few weeks will bring the opening innings of a bucket full of local political races. Enumclaw, Bonney Lake, Buckley and Sumner have four city council seats up for grabs. Wilkeson has two. Black Diamond has nearly the whole clubhouse on the ballot due to a mix of expiring terms and resignations. The filing period is May 11-15.
For the second time since the April 28 special election the Enumclaw School District bond, Proposition No. 1, moved across the 60 percent approval line according to the most recent post from King County Election.
The Enumclaw School District bond was unsettled Monday, too close to call. When ballots were counted Monday, May 11, the percentage laid at 59.99 in support, 40.01 opposed.
The Enumclaw School District bond fell three votes short today of the needed 60 percent approval following the latest post from the King County Elections website.
The Enumclaw School District bond crossed the 60 percent approval mark today, April 30, according to the latest posting from the King County Elections website.
The 2015 Legislative session officially reached the end of the line Sunday, sine die, with little or no agreement on the most important B words facing lawmakers – the biennial budget. The legislators spent 105 days, beginning Jan. 12, with each chamber and the governor scribbling out a budget, and that is about where it stands.
The Enumclaw School District bond measure is at 58.64 percent for approval, needing 60 percent to pass.
A King County District Court ruling rising out of the political heat waves surrounding the King County Fire District 28 was reversed by the Superior Court April 9. King County Superior Court Judge Veronica Alicea Galván reversed a district court decision against Ted DeVol and Michael Qualls and awarding $30,000 in statutory damages to Ted and Beth Fehr and $30,000 to Casey and Angelina Taylor.
The marquee race each year at Emerald Downs is the $200,000 Longacres Mile, Grade 3. It is the top-billed race among a series of stakes featured at the Auburn oval. The 2014 winner of the Mile, Stryker Phd, will be attempting to become the third horse in the 80-year history of the Mile to win the stakes back-to-back. The most recent was Simply Majestic in 1988-89. Trooper Seven won in 1980-81.
April 18 marks the 20th year of thoroughbred horse racing at Emerald Downs and another evolution for the sport in Washington that extends back to the opening day of Longacres Park in 1933.
The central nervous system of Emerald Downs is tucked away behind Sally and Joe Steiner’s Quarter Chute Cafe – the racing office. It is the one spot possibly least known to the public. Without the daily work going on behind the chest-high counter, the gates do not open either for the public or the horses.
The marquee race each year at Emerald Downs is the $200,000 Longacres Mile, Grade 3. It is the top-billed race among a series of stakes featured at the Auburn oval. The 2014 winner of the Mile, Stryker Phd, will be attempting to become the third horse in the 80-year history of the Mile to win the stakes back-to-back. The most recent was Simply Majestic in 1988-89. Trooper Seven won in 1980-81.
The Enumclaw School District Proposition No. 1 bond for school renovation and construction is on the April 28 special election ballot. It is an all-mail election. The ballots and voters pamphlets were mailed last week and must be postmarked by the 28th to be valid; or, ballots can be taken to a drop box location or a special “drop-off van.”
