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Artist’s shindig held downtown
Doug Ramsay photo
Putting their artistic skills in action, Ben Danks of Everett (left) and Alexa Clark of Mill Creek contribute to the community paint-by-number mural at this year’s Fresh Paint in Everett on Sunday, Aug. 21. The annual art festival held by the Schack Art Center moved from the waterfront to Hewitt and Hoyt avenues in downtown. More than 100 artists showed off and sold their work.
Published August 24, 2022
SNOHOMISH — How much would homeowners in both the city and in the boundaries of the Snohomish school and fire districts end up paying extra on their property taxes to make up the difference if the City Council approves a builders' property tax exemption to encourage future affordable housing developments in the Midtown District along Avenue D and builders jump on the offer?
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published August 24, 2022
SNOHOMISH — The trees around the Avenue A gazebo needed to come down after all, the city said, and last week, they did.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published August 24, 2022
SNOHOMISH COUNTY
— A County Council majority last week approved proceeding to purchase two hotels for nearly $20 million, one in Everett and one in Edmonds, to convert to short-term transition housing for people experiencing homelessness.
The council did not attach a well-publicized contingency to require drug users to go through rehabilitation to be let into housing. County Executive Dave Somers said this contingency would remove the county's ability to use federal funding to feasibly make the hotel purchases.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published August 24, 2022
SNOHOMISH — The Snohomish Block Party is an annual 2-day festival which is going to take place Aug. 26 and 27 in Historic Downtown Snohomish.
More on this story...By JACOB KERST, published August 17, 2022
MONROE — Floats, equestrian groups, marching bands, classic cars and more will amble down Main Street for the annual Fair Days Parade Saturday, Aug, 27 starting at 11 a.m.
More on this story...By TRIBUNE STAFF, published August 24, 2022
EVERETT — The historic gazebo in Clark Park will soon get a modern makeover to add shutters and more if the City Council OKs a parks department plan at its Aug. 31 meeting.
More on this story...By ADAM WORCESTER, published August 24, 2022
SNOHOMISH COUNTY — The County Council signed a three-year contract to apply herbicides in various lakes, including potentially Lake Roesiger, to control invasive plants. Lake Roesiger residents can attend a Zoom meeting Thursday, Aug. 25 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. to hear the fee proposal.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published August 24, 2022
 ECHO LAKE — The Echo Lake community’s new Emergency Operations Center will help ensure they're not isolated if The Big One shakes through this unincorporated, isolated area of thousands of households midway between Woodinville and Monroe.
More on this story...By ADAM WORCESTER, published August 17, 2022
MONROE — The clock is ticking louder today on the historic Buck Houses, and fate will tell if they’re saved.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published August 17, 2022
 SNOHOMISH — Church members helped get him into housing. Now, they’ve helped get him transportation to have a stronger footing in the job hiring market.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published August 17, 2022
MONROE — A proposed new site for an addiction clinic in downtown Monroe will also help East County residents with opioid dependence as far away as Index.
More on this story...By RICK SINNETT, published August 17, 2022
EVERETT — People are getting help in Everett through short-term but intensive, 24/7 rehabilitation to try to put addiction firmly in their past.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published August 10, 2022
SNOHOMISH COUNTY — A countywide survey will dig deeper into internet gaps in rural county. Informal surveys show Machias, Three Lakes, and the outskirts north of Monroe, plus the Highway 9 corridor between Lake Stevens and Arlington, are populated areas have internet speeds below broadband standards. Residents in the most outlying pockets might be buying satellite internet services as no internet lines come to them.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published August 17, 2022
SNOHOMISH — At the Aug. 16 City Council meeting, the Snohomish County Assessor is expected to show their office’s calculations on the tax impacts for the broader area if council proceeds with a local development tax exemption for the Midtown District.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published August 10, 2022
SNOHOMISH — County prosecutors filed a charge Thursday against the owner of SnoTown Brewery on an accusation he molested a pre-teen girl. Second-degree child molestation is a class B felony.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published August 10, 2022
SNOHOMISH COUNTY — The nation’s baby formula shortage has left at least some food banks sometimes going without. They can use your help. People on WIC Cards faced further hurdles. Baby formula makers speak to what they're doing in response.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published August 10, 2022
MONROE — A new teen mentorship program has emerged looking to offer teens a safe place to hang out, seek resources, and receive one on one mentoring from a qualified volunteer at 17150 West Main St., Suite B in Monroe, between the St. Vincent De Paul Thrift Store and 911 Driving School.
More on this story...By JACOB KERST, published August 10, 2022
Tough athletes tackle challenges
Jim Scolman photo
After splashing through water and mud obstacles, timed competitors in the Seattle Spartan Trifecta event Aug. 13 and 14 make a slippery rope climb up a metal slope as one of the many course obstacles at Sky Meadows Park (the old Nordstrom Farm)
near Monroe.
Published August 17, 2022
EVERETT — A few new park rules would let children establish little businesses and put a ban on flying drones overhead, plus set speed limits in parks and add civil penalties for molesting wildlife. The council will vote to approve at its Wednesday, Aug. 10 meeting which starts at 6:30 p.m.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published August 10, 2022
 EVERETT — The Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum at Paine Field has a new collection owner who intends to reopen the museum by year’s end.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published August 10, 2022
SNOHOMISH — The state still would like the rebel barber of Avenue D to pay up a slew of fines which he’s said before are a violation of his Constitutional rights to make a living.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published August 10, 2022
 MONROE — Renee Uribe-Sayah endured much in her life: The domestic abuse, the migraines, the car accident, the brain tumor. She took each step as a challenge.
More on this story...By ADAM WORCESTER, published August 3, 2022
 EVERETT — The creation of more than 30 new murals went up in Everett during early August. It's thanks to a collaboration event led by one of the masters of the art.
More on this story...By JACOB KERST, published August 3, 2022
MONROE — The school board has selected a supe with years under her belt.
More on this story... Published oniine July 28, 2022
 MONROE — Progress is steadily being made behind the scenes to widen the last part of state Route 522 and completely redo the Maltby Road/Paradise Lake Road intersection to get rid of the stoplight.
Finding money to construct it is a known need.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published July 27, 2022
SNOHOMISH — Earlier this month, the National Education Association awarded three Snohomish residents for their work in fighting racism and for the documentary "What Happened on First Street."
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published July 27, 2022
SNOHOMISH COUNTY — The recently released final plan for Lord Hill Regional Park, the large recreational woodland between Snohomish and Monroe, again tweaks the trail system and reverses decisions.
Horse riders, though, take issue.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published July 20, 2022
 EVERETT — A high-tech approach to vertical farming is happening in Everett’s backyard and is feeding Everett’s schoolchildren.
More on this story...By RICK SINNETT, published July 20, 2022
 SNOHOMISH — An Italian Greyhound from Snohomish made it to New York and struck gold at the premier Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, but Sriracha and her owner Sarah Evans' admission to the competition came by a stroke of luck.
More on this story...By ADAM WORCESTER, published July 13, 2022
EVERETT — More children may be susceptible to migraines than once thought. A clinical research drug trial is ongoing for a dissolvable tablet to help adolescents when migraines attack. An Everett center is one of the few centers nationally taking patients.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published May 25, 2022
 SNOHOMISH — Snohomish High School career pathways and civics teacher Kathy Purviance-Snow won one of public education’s highest national honors for her work in lifting up education and her students.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published May 18, 2022
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