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    Articles by Celeste Gracey
    Man plummets to his death off Rattlesnake Ridge
    Man plummets to his death off Rattlesnake Ridge
    By Celeste Gracey • March 13, 2012 2:58 pm

    An Auburn man plummeted to his death off Rattlesnake Ridge on March 9 in what so far appears to be an accident.

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    Sasha Visconty holds a hen inside a pen attached to her coop at her Tiger Mountain home.
    Urban poultry farming flocks Issaquah | Pictures
    By Celeste Gracey • March 9, 2012 3:11 pm

    As interest in sustainable food grows, urban poultry farming has had a major upswing over the past four years, said Michelle Boman, operations manager at The Grange Country Store in Issaquah.

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    A state trooper’s sacrifice | Celeste Gracey | Reporter’s Notebook
    A state trooper’s sacrifice | Celeste Gracey |...
    By Celeste Gracey • March 9, 2012 2:52 pm

    I never met Trooper Tony Radulescu, whose life was snatched away at the hands of a thief two weeks ago, but he was the type of man who believed with each DUI arrest, he was saving a life. He wasn’t wrong.

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    Dave Reichert
    Rep. Dave Reichert centers on Issaquah
    By Celeste Gracey • March 7, 2012 7:42 pm

    Congressional redistricting has pushed Rep. Dave Reichert’s district from Mercer Island and Bellevue. He’s now moved his office to Issaquah.

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    Teachers at Creekside Elementary School celebrate receiving a grant from the Issaquah Schools Foundation. From the left are teachers Megan Norman
    Foundation awards 10 grants for the classroom
    By Celeste Gracey • March 7, 2012 7:39 pm

    The third graders won a $550 grant from the foundation to improve the schools’ Northwest Indian curriculum, a favorite among students. It was among the smallest of the $8,189 in grants the organization awarded that day, but it went to the most teachers.

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    Fundraiser would help prevent extinction of Kokanee Salmon
    Fundraiser would help prevent extinction of Kokanee Salmon
    By Celeste Gracey • March 1, 2012 4:42 pm

    The Issaquah Salmon Hatchery is hosting its first major fundraiser for saving the Kokanee Salmon.

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    Stephan Daghofer finds the maple syrup at a grocery store in Issaquah. The ACT program
    Breaking Barriers: How a vocational program helped integrate...
    By Celeste Gracey • March 1, 2012 3:33 pm

    For 23 years now ISD has been giving students like Boss an opportunity to transcend her disability and join the ranks of working citizens. For the students, there couldn’t be a greater gift than the opportunity to be an ordinary member of the community.

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    Issaquah mountain bike recommendations pass through board, barely
    Issaquah mountain bike recommendations pass through board, barely
    By Celeste Gracey • March 1, 2012 3:14 pm

    Issaquah’s Park Board moved along a study that would improve mountain biking in the city, but not without hesitancy.

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    Issaquah hopes to recover $380,000 from its half-million dollar storm
    Issaquah hopes to recover $380,000 from its half-million...
    By Celeste Gracey • February 29, 2012 1:43 pm

    Issaquah is hoping to recover $380,000 from the federal government after it shelled out a half million dollars to manage the mid-January snowstorm.

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    DNR hopes to reopen Mt. Si and Little Si hiking trails by Saturday
    DNR hopes to reopen Mt. Si and Little...
    By Celeste Gracey • February 23, 2012 2:13 pm

    The Department of Natural Resources plans to continue its closure of the Mount Si and Little Si trailheads through at least Friday, as it cleans up wreckage from a small plane crash on the mountain.

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    Experimental program frees firefighters from non-emergency  medical calls
    Experimental program frees firefighters from non-emergency medical calls
    By Celeste Gracey • February 23, 2012 2:02 pm

    Eastside Fire and Rescue will no longer be sending out fire trucks to every medical call.

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    Preschool students line up outside Sunset Elementary School. It's one of three in the district that offers special needs programming before the kindergarten roundup. From the left
    Special needs preschool program gives kids a head...
    By Celeste Gracey • February 23, 2012 2:01 pm

    Over the past 40 years, institutions for the “retarded” have transformed into special education programs for the disabled. The hope is to see everyone improve, and the biggest reward is to see students like William able to enter normal classrooms.

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    Investigators close Mt. Si and Little Si trails through President’s Day after plane crash
    Investigators close Mt. Si and Little Si trails...
    By Celeste Gracey • February 17, 2012 4:35 pm

    The Mount Si and Little Si trailheads will be closed through President’s Day weekend, while investigators continue to investigate an airplane crash.

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    Sam Jarrett
    Raging River Forest full of recreational potential in...
    By Celeste Gracey • February 16, 2012 4:10 pm

    Surveying a path through the ravine, Sam Jarrett stands on the edge of a clearing. A screen of trees hides the Raging River from view, but not its sound.

    He glances back at a power substation, before slipping through a nest of blackberry bushes and down to the rivers edge. Mossy rocks turn logs into teeter-totters above swirling water, which washes out the eery buzz from power lines.

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    Rich Weyls
    Healing hands | Issaquah-Swedish chaplain meets spiritual needs...
    By Celeste Gracey • February 9, 2012 4:57 pm

    The light-footed chaplain slips open a curtain and pokes his head into Room 3306. His lips form a greeting, but before his first syllable is born, the patient snaps, “Are you a doctor?”

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    Mayor Ava Frisinger delivers her State of the City address at Issaquah City Hall Monday night. She focused on the city’s economic development.
    Issaquah in a ‘pivotal’ moment of economic development...
    By Celeste Gracey • February 8, 2012 4:23 pm

    The city of Issaquah is embarking on a year of economic development, or so it hopes.

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    Drive to benefit men and boys in need of warm clothing
    Drive to benefit men and boys in need...
    By Celeste Gracey • February 3, 2012 3:50 pm

    Churches are pulling together in a citywide effort to help keep homeless boys and men warm for the rest of winter.

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    Lauren Parsekian
    Finding Kind filmakers talks about why girls are...
    By Celeste Gracey • January 31, 2012 3:17 pm

    Issaquah & Sammamish Reporter writer Celeste Gracey spoke with filmmaker Lauren Parsekian about her documentary, Finding Kind. A 25-year-old from California, she was one of a duo that filmed Finding Kind, a documentary shot in September 2009 on why girls are mean. She lead discussions last weekend at Issaquah and Skyline high schools.

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    Jema Hayes
    Conservation begins at native plant nursery | Photo...
    By Celeste Gracey • January 31, 2012 2:53 pm

    Grasping the 2-foot saplings by their tender trunks, the gardener moved them to make room for the day’s potting – cedars so small they looked more like clippings stabbed in bits of earth than trees with roots.
    It’s the beginning of a several year process for Jema Hayes, who wearing mud-stained Carharts directs volunteers at the Mountain to Sound Greenway Trust’s native plant nursery.

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    Have a Mondo Coffee stamp card? Woman asks people to stop calling the number on it
    Have a Mondo Coffee stamp card? Woman asks...
    By Celeste Gracey • January 30, 2012 1:19 pm

    When Mondo’s coffee first opened it accidentally printed the wrong number on its stamp cards for free coffee, and as a result an Issaquah woman is getting bombarded with calls.

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