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		<title>LWSD secretaries went way too far</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere out there is a medical professional who could earn an award for studying this phenomenon. Somehow, about 60 percent of the secretaries in the Lake Washington School District got sick on the same day. Never mind that their union, legally prohibited from striking, is in the midst of a protracted contract dispute with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sammamish, Issaquah councils discuss animal control, fire service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Issaquah and Sammamish city council members met last week for a wide-ranging discussion about the challenges faced by the neighboring cities.
Talk about Klahanie Park, how the cities will provide animal-control services after June 30 and the future of emergency services dominated the March 9 meeting at Sammamish City Hall.
Future of animal services ‘is a very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dozens of Lake Washington school secretaries take ‘sick-and-tired’ day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About 119 secretaries and other support staff in the Lake Washington School District, frustrated over labor negotiations, called in sick March 8. The school district has launched an investigation into the mass sick day. Public employees, including school district secretaries, are not allowed to strike under state law.
“People stayed home because they weren’t feeling well,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sammamish relaxes standards for its own buildings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The City Council relaxed its own regulations on city-owned land March 2.
With the changes, buildings can be 30 to 40 feet closer to a park’s border, non-porous surfaces can take up 25 percent more land and lights can be higher than in comparable lots under private ownership.
In a letter to the council, Senior Planner Rob [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Controversial math choice for Issaquah School Board</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Issaquah School Board members got their first look at the superintendent’s recommendation to adopt a new high school math curriculum March 10.
After nearly two years of review and analysis by district officials, Superintendent Steve Rasmussen recommended Key Curriculum Press’ Discovering Mathematics books to be adopted for high schoolers.
A group of district parents is already threatening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sammamish to receive $27,457 for overheated lights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A set of 14 overheating light bulbs in City Hall has gotten on city officials’ last nerve.
At its March 2 meeting, the City Council approved a settlement fee of $27,457 from Lite Energy, a Canadian architectural lighting company with a Seattle branch.

The hanging light fixtures in the main hallway and lobby of City Hall were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Street setbacks drop from 7 to 5 feet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sammamish City Council corrected an inconsistency in their regulations for building setbacks on private property. The minimum setback had been 5 feet until March 2004, but became the stricter standard of 7 feet for five years. In February 2009, it reverted to the 5-foot standard again.
Community Development Director Kamuron Gurol went to the council [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 top fire officials will retire soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two central figures in Sammamish’s firefighting organization announced their retirement this month.
Tim Pilling, the fire marshal for Eastside Fire &#38; Rescue, and Dave Gray, the head financial officer for EFR, both retire at the end of March.
Deputy Fire Chief Jeff Griffin paid tribute to Pilling at the March 11 EFR meeting, pointing out that Pilling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youth fast to understand the realities of world hunger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Greg Peterson, an eighth-grader at Inglewood Junior High School, the hardest part of fasting for 30 hours wasn’t going without food at school March 5 or thinking about the feast on Saturday. The toughest part, he said, was when he went to sleep.
“It wasn’t that hard ‘til I had communion (at the end),” he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sammamishreview.com/2010/03/16/youth-fast-to-understand-the-realities-of-world-hunger</link>
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		<title>Chilean families rally local quake-relief support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Vicente Varas, an Eastlake High School sophomore, heard about the massive 8.8 earthquake Feb. 27, he knew he had to do something to help.
Varas was born and raised in Chile until age 11 and has family who were affected. He and his brother, Inglewood Junior High student Santiago Varas, along with about 10 Chilean [...]]]></description>
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