🌱 Why outdoor lovers nationwide are suddenly flocking to North Bend’s trails
North Bend, Washington Patch AM: a 4 min readGood morning North Bend! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- Why outdoor lovers nationwide are suddenly flocking to North Bend’s trails
- Why North Bend hit pause on big battery projects in the Valley
- Impostor nurses reached North Bend care homes—what state investigators uncovered
Also on today's calendar: Fenders On Front Street.
Today's riddle: What did the carpenter ant say when he walked into the bar? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Wednesday: Cloudy, with a high of 71 and low of 52 degrees.
- Thursday: An a.m. shower; mostly cloudy, temps: high: 69, low: 48.
- Friday: Cooler with showers around, with a high of 61 and low of 44 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
1. If You Love The Outdoors, You Owe It To Yourself To Visit This Beautiful Small Washington Town (everafterinthewoods.com) — North Bend takes center stage here as the jumping-off point for Mount Si, Rattlesnake Lake, and other nearby trails and waterfalls that locals know well. The piece walks you through favorite hikes, lake days, and winter trips to Snoqualmie Pass, all easily reached from town. It’s essentially a love letter to North Bend’s outdoor access and why visitors are flocking here. 
2. Valley cities place moratoriums on battery storage site development (valleyrecord.com) — North Bend has joined Snoqualmie and Carnation in temporarily halting new battery energy storage projects, reflecting growing Valley-wide concern about large BESS facilities. While Snoqualmie’s moratorium doesn’t stop the proposed 45‑acre site near Fisher Creek Park, it and North Bend’s pause give local leaders time to study safety, land-use, and growth impacts before any similar projects move forward.
3. Kent man convicted of using stolen nurse identities to place ‘impostor nurses' in nursing homes (kiro7.com) — Long-term care facilities in North Bend were among several statewide sites where unqualified workers posed as nurses using stolen identities, according to state prosecutors. A Kent man was convicted of leading organized crime, identity theft, and theft in the scheme, and now faces a potential multi‑year prison sentence after a King County jury’s guilty verdicts.
4. Seattle's only kosher grocery delivery service shutting down, cites taxes, rising costs, vandalism (kvi.com) — North Bend residents should know that Genie Industries plans to close its local facility, cutting 117 jobs as part of a broader wave of Washington business pullbacks. The story centers on Seattle Kosher, a long-running kosher grocery delivery service shutting down amid rising costs, taxes, vandalism, and a shrinking customer base, highlighting wider economic pressures across the region.
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- About 15 years ago we had a neighbor named Tim who claimed to be a time traveler from the future.
My father, Tom Antone, had a strange encounter with Tim while working on his apartment. He produced an unusual piece of technology from under the bed… (Nextdoor Heritage Acres) - Folks, there is a consistent pattern of "work at home" scams that keep appearing on this site.
They are 99.9% scams and are designed to lure you off this site so they can access your personal financial details so they can steal your assets such… (Nextdoor Silver Creek)
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