The Edmonds Bookshop is the place to be to meet local authors. Coming up this month, the bookshop is welcoming Bernadette Pajer and Dan Raley.

This Thursday, Bernadette Pajer will be in the shop from 5pm to 8pm with her new book, "Fatal Induction". This is her second in the Professor Bradshaw mystery series. Set in Seattle in 1901 her books feature a UW Electrical Engineering professor and lots of authentic turn of the last century detail.

On Saturday, May 26th at noon, they will celebrate the release of Dan Raley's "Pitchers of Beer". This book is an entertaining account of the 27-year history of the Seattle Rainiers baseball team. Raley was a sportswriter at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for over 3 decades and has won numerous journalism awards.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF) will be making repairs to the rock seawalls and track embankments from Seattle (Carkeek Park) to Everett. The base of their operations will be near Port of Edmonds at the rail house on W. Dayton St. in Edmonds.

Repairing defects in the existing rock seawalls and embankments will be done by filling existing void spaces with grout. The City of Edmonds said that all repairs will be made by track-based equipment with a boat acting as a spotter to identify the next repair location.

Depending on the weather, the schedule for these repair efforts is expected to continue through the summer.

This work will start in Seattle and work northward. It is not expected to be in the Edmonds area for several weeks.

Meadowdale High School's baseball team has been named the 3A Washington State Academic Champions.

The team has a grade-point average of 3.606 which put them ahead of all 66 other teams in Washington state.

Congratulations to these hard working athletes on and off the field!

Click here for a complete list of state winners by sport.