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Stretching to the sky
Jim Scolman photo
Chuck Betker, of Spark Hot Yoga, center, back, leads a class of about 30 students in Slow Flow Vinyasa Yoga in a beautiful sunflower field at Bob’s Corn & Pumpkin Farm on a stunning Tuesday afternoon in Snohomish. “Farm Yoga” is one of many events Bob’s is hosting for its sunflower festival ongoing through Sept. 17. Betker has been teaching for about seven years and is from Everett.
Published September 7, 2022
CATHCART — How county planning staff proceeded with a proposed development at a large vacant corner at Highway 9 and Cathcart Way has prompted an appeal from neighbors crying foul to the County Council. Neighbors believed Cathcart would get a lively hub. Instead, 286 townhomes is
the plan that wasn't widely publicized.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published September 7, 2022
 EVERETT — A new graffiti museum and music venue is coming to Everett this fall at Everett and Wetmore avenues, within the former Club Broadway building.
More on this story...By JACOB KERST, published September 7, 2022
EVERETT — After three years on hiatus, the Everett Film Festival of independent films is back.
On Saturday, Sept. 10, a lineup of 11 movies, varying from animated shorts to documentaries and features, will be shown at the Everett Community College Jackson Center.
More on this story...By COLIN BURNS, published August 31, 2022
SNOHOMISH COUNTY — County Councilman Nate Nehring's effort to introduce a stipulation that illicit drug users must go through treatment as a condition of being given shelter in county-funded housing for homeless individuals can be done without precluding federal funding, but it must be done narrowly to avoid pitfalls, the county prosecutor's office found.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published September 7, 2022
EVERETT — Local union members organized a leaflet campaign Wednesday, Aug. 24 to raise attention to chronic understaffing at Providence’s two campuses in Everett.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published August 31, 2022
 MACHIAS — How did a zebra end up a woman's ranch? Well, here's the thing...
More on this story...By JACOB KERST, published August 31, 2022
 SNOHOMISH — The school board’s newest member is Sarah Adams.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published August 31, 2022
 EVERETT — The buyer appears to be Kendall Automotive Group, one of the region’s largest auto dealer groups.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published August 31, 2022
 MONROE — A woman suspected of driving under the influence hit a King County Sheriff’s Office cruiser head-on Aug. 25 in a crash on U.S. 2 between Sultan and Monroe now faces felony charges.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published August 31, 2022
Overdose vigil honors deceased
Jim Scolman photo
Rayme Rogge-Springer of Everett lights a memorial candle at the conclusion of the Opioid Oversode Vigil held Wednesday, Aug. 31 at the Snohomish County Campus in Everett.
The event is called “A Night To Remember, A Time to Act.” The county’s event is held on International Overdose Awareness Day.
The opioid overdose vigil is an annual event. This year’s vigil coincides with a new recent spike in overdoses noted by the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.
Published September 7, 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?
Further clarification on Midtown tax exemption idea added to story
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
 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 — 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
 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
 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 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
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