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Voters face choice between fewer library hours or higher property taxes By Eric Stevick, Herald Writer Chris Loos and Tom Balt are card- carrying members of the Sno-Isle Libraries system. Loos, an Edmonds resident who devours mystery novels, plans to vote for a libraries property tax rate increase on the Nov. 3 ballot; Balt, a rural Snohomish resident who's been reading the classics of John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway, will vote no. They are among the half-million borrowers in the Sno-Isle Libraries system database. Sno-Isle includes 21 libraries and 491 full- and part-time workers. It has a $38 million budget, including reserves, and checked out 8.4 million items in 2008. Sno-Isle Libraries Prop. 1 would increase the library district's levy rate by 9 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value. It would raise the rate for... [read full story]
Lenny Henry, Rachel Weisz and Juliet Stevenson are among the actors vying for a prestigious Evening Standard Theatre Award, at the ceremony which celebrates the cream of the London stage. Henry has been nominated for an...
Published Date: 23 November 2009 Seven bulls being used on the set of a film starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz have broken free in Spain and slightly injured two people. Cruise and Diaz were not at the rehearsal. The actors...
Real Salt Lake won their first Major League Soccer championship on Sunday with a penalty shootout victory over David Beckham's L.A Galaxy after the title game had ended in a 1-1 draw following extra time.
POLICE officers were pelted with missiles by a crowd of angry revellers as they tried to break up an illegal rave in a disused warehouse yesterday. Officers were called out just before midnight on Saturday following reports...
