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Nathan Perea was named as the executive director for the Snoqualmie Valley Chamber of Commerce, and starts April 1.
The position has been open since early January, when former director Kevin Dwyer left for a job in Oregon.

Garrett Rudolph, formerly of Issaquah, became managing editor of The Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle on March 1.
Rudolph spent the past five years as the sports editor of the Woodburn Independent in Woodburn, Ore.

Dennis Bennett wrote to tell me that his daughter, Julie Reiber, a Sehome High School and Western Washington University alumnus who has starred on Broadway and traveled the world to sing, returns home to share songs from her debut album, "Love Travels," at 7 p.m. March 29 at Firehouse…

The “Closed” sign has been on the door of the Oysterville Store for half a year. The red velvet drapes in the display windows block out even a glimpse of the goings-on inside the building. And, in the west window a plush, lop-eared bunny stares fixedly from his basket, giving not a hint of what…

Have you ever met anyone famous?
Yeah, I shook hands with Jimmy Carter when I was little kid. I was an Air Force brat and living on McChord Air Force Base. He was visiting base, and we were in a big crowd. And I was on my dad’s shoulders and I reached out and shook his hand. I was about 8…

Will Chen, certified public accountant, has opened an office in the International District. His office is located at 418 7th Ave. S., next to the Jade Garden restaurant.
Prior to establishing his accounting firm in 2012, Chen was an external auditor working for a national public…

Lynden-based Peoples Bank will open a new financial center in downtown Everett in May when it finishes refurbishing a building at the corner of California Street and Colby Avenue.

"We have hired a team of lenders from the former Cascade Bank, now Opus,"…

If all goes according to plan, Barbara Belshee's career in finance will begin and end as a volunteer in an elementary school library.

Belshee was a young mother with a son at Hillcrest Elementary in Lake Stevens when she first inquired about helping out.&#…