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Come repair bikes
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Sharing Wheels volunteer Patrick Sullivan of Granite Falls replaces a damaged and rusted chain while refurbishing a used child’s bicycle during a volunteer work session at the organization’s shop in north Everett on Thursday, Nov. 3. The bikes will go to low-income families over the holidays. Volunteers are sought for work parties that will be 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday evenings through Tuesday, Dec. 6. Sign up at sharingwheels.org or call 425-252-6952. The shop is at 2531 Broadway in Everett. Published November 9, 2022
SNOHOMISH — The City Council might increase Mayor Linda Redmon's salary from $18,000 a year as part of budget talks. A special one-hour meeting on the topic starts at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10 in the Carnegie Building, 105 Cedar Ave. The public will be able to give comments at this meeting in person or onlne and or send written comments in advance.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published November 9, 2022
EVERETT — The Historical Commission said no. The city planning director overruled and said yes.
And the neighbors to a proposed small apartment building along north Grand Avenue’s hillside have been opposed since the very start for multiple reasons beyond demolishing a near-100-year-old house.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published November 9, 2022
MONROE — A new permanent superintendent will take the reins at Monroe Schools come fall 2023. A community forum about what the community expects in its next superintendent is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 16 at 6 p.m. at the District Administration Office at 14692 179th Ave. SE.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published November 9, 2022
EVERETT — City attorneys say Everett’s recently challenged redistricting public input sessions were A-OK. Also, a chance for teens to learn lifeguarding and a pause on altering the city animal code.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published November 9, 2022
 SNOHOMISH COUNTY — Food banks are facing a new squeeze as they are seeing more clients but have less spending power to buy food with the current situation of inflation. The area's biggest food bank has had to throtte back and ration how often people can visit to get food.
More on this story...By MARTINA POVOLO, published November 2, 2022
 SNOHOMISH — Harvey Field is proposing to lengthen its runway to meet FAA compliance. To do that, Airport Way needs to be relocated farther away around the end of the runway. A comment period for these proposals will open in December.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published November 2, 2022
MONROE — A recommendation built into Mayor Geoffrey Thomas’s 2023-2024 budget raises the city property tax rate 6.95%, which if enacted is a differential increase of five cents per $1,000 in assessed value versus taking no increase.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published November 2, 2022
EVERETT — A malfunctioning pump at the city’s wastewater plant allowed just shy of 10 million gallons of not fully disinfected wastewater to go into the Snohomish River in early June.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published November 2, 2022
 MONROE — Matthew House, a nonprofit located near the Monroe prison, ensures families of the incarcerated are taken care of with temporary shelter, food and clothing at the time in their lives when their world's been turned upside down.
More on this story...By AISHA MISBAH, published October 26, 2022
 SNOHOMISH — Mayor Linda Redmon’s preliminary $80 million two-year budget through 2024 adds more community services, outlines goals for modernizing the city and dedicates millions of dollars toward future projects. The City Council, though, will soon have to start making choices on how to ensure the budget is sustainable into future years as labor costs will be rising, Redmon told the council last week.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published October 26, 2022
SULTAN — The city is centering on a plan to gradually widen U.S. 2 to four lanes, and build roundabouts at multiple highway intersections within the city. Three fixes are looking promising in the immediate future. The city will start lobbying Olympia for specific projects in January.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published October 26, 2022
MONROE — A new emergency mental health service is coming to Monroe and Sultan in the next few months, once staff can be found for it.
More on this story...By JACOB KERST, published October 26, 2022
 EVERETT — A state airports committee is suggesting to either greatly grow services at Everett’s Paine Field in tandem with growth at Sea-Tac Airport or to construct a brand-new airport in either Pierce or Thurston counties. They’re working on deciding which option to put forward to state legislators next year.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published October 26, 2022
 ARLINGTON — These two guys are putting on quite a show while doing something they love.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published October 19, 2022
CLEARVIEW — Dozens of neighbors in Clearview want to have sound controlled from activities at a destination religious assembly facility located on rural land off of State Street. County Hearing Examiner Peter Camp is deciding whether to approve a conditional use permit for the Husaynia Islamic Society of Seattle to upgrade a barn's interior to be a better worship center.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published October 19, 2022
SNOHOMISH COUNTY — State Sens. Marko Liias and John Lovick, both of Snohomish County, would like to lower the state’s legal drunk-driving impairment limit to 0.05% blood-alcohol concentration.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published October 19, 2022
CATHCART — The County Council last week dismissed a land-use appeal crying foul to how county officials approved 286 townhomes at state Route 9 and Cathcart Way. Opponents say the fight's not over. Appellants contend multiple issues of transparency and incompleteness of the environmental review in relation to the county hearing examiner's approval of a private development on county surplus land at Cathcart Way and Highway 9.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published October 19, 2022
 SNOHOMISH COUNTY — Even drug users who'd never want to touch Fentanyl are being blindsided that somebody blended it in, and a drug testing expert is finding these incidences have skyrocketed.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published October 12, 2022
 A bipartisan coalition of city mayors seeking to re-harden some of the state’s police reform laws to help control crime launched last week.
The mayors say some of the laws swept in during 2020, such as prohibitions on police chases, are not working, and instead emboldened criminals.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published October 12, 2022
 MONROE — K-9 Sam's been the department’s narcotics K-9 for five years, paired with Officer Devin Tucker. He could hardly contain himself at his retirement acknowledgement last week.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published October 12, 2022
MONROE — Mayor Geoffrey Thomas's proposed $198 million 2023-2024 two-year budget adds staff and continues progress on plans framed by the city's six-prong "Imagine Monroe" vision that focuses on people.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published October 12, 2022
Keeping downtown Monroe clean
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Dorian Adams, center, and Maverick, 5, both of Monroe, scramble to collect litter during last month's monthly cleanup on Saturday, Sept. 24 in downtown Monroe. Dorian's mom Rachel is at left and Maverick's mom Heather Sevier is in the background with her stroller. Sevier, commenting on the cleanup, said, ”I like to clean and it’s good to clean up our community.”
MONROE — The Monroe Chamber of Commerce began organizing a monthly clean up in downtown. The group meets rain or shine on the last Saturday of every month. They meet at Sharinabean's on Main Street at 10 a.m.
More on this story about the cleanups...By COLIN BURNS, published October 12, 2022
 EVERETT — A feasibility study began last week for siting a new multipurpose outdoor stadium in Everett.
And if one gets built, the Everett AquaSox minor league baseball team is committing to a 30-year or longer lease to anchor it.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published October 5, 2022
EVERETT — It might not be readily apparent, but redevelopment of the Everett Mall is underway. A future, second-step plan would slice a big part of the mall to reshape its appearance.
More on this story...By ADAM WORCESTER, published October 5, 2022
EVERETT — Sound Transit again got an earful from local leaders against the idea of altering where the future Link light rail line is routed within Everett last week. An idea would cut Paine Field out of the picture. County leaders call foul to that.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published October 5, 2022
EVERETT — Mayor Cassie Franklin’s proposed $543.7 million budget avoids service cuts, and it continues the city's work on homelessness, affordable housing and climate change.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published September 28, 2022
Expanded museum open for play
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Children can run, jump and explore in more play areas now. Five-year-old Daisy Morado of Marysville leads her two-year-old brother Josiah through a rope bridge in the Imagine Children’s Museum’s new woodlands exhibit on Saturday, Oct. 29. Saturday was the grand opening of the museum's 33,000 square-foot expansion. The woodland exhibit features a full-size Sasquatch resting in a hammock in his tree house. It is one of 12 new galleries within the three-story expansion.
The 33,000 square foot addition practically doubled the size of the original museum by adding three new floors. The museum is located at the corner of Wall and Hoyt avenues in Everett. It began fundraising in 2018 when it recognized its popularity was leading to crowding in the museum. The expansion had a soft opening in September before last weekend's grand opening. The expansion cost $25 million. Published November 2, 2022
 EVERETT — One could say building rehabilitator Pete Sikov is a secret part of Hewitt Avenue's revival. Through selecting who to rent to, it transformed into a historic arts and culture district. The Hodges Building, smack-dab in the center of downtown, underwent years of restoration after a damaging fire and opened in May. A story of the landowner who has slowly curated whole blocks of downtown.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published September 21, 2022
SNOHOMISH COUNTY — If State Superintendent Chris Reykdal gets state legislation passed for universally free school meals, per a plan he announced last week to ask for $86 million in state earmarks, paying for school lunch could become a thing of the past next fall.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published September 14, 2022
SNOHOMISH — The city is investing in Blackman Lake. The lake off of 13th Street can use any help it can get.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published September 14, 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
Firefighters show off how they do it all
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Olivia Denney, 6, of Everett (left) and Owen Shelton, 7, of Lake Stevens learn how to use a fire extinguisher to put out a
controlled fire as part of Snohomish Regional Fire & Rescue’s annual open house at Station 31 in Monroe on Saturday, Oct. 15. A number of hands-on activities, demonstrations and close-up looks at firetrucks were part of the afternoon-long event. The station's open house, which has happened now for 20 years, is timed to coincide with National Fire Prevention Week. Published October 19, 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
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
 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
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Stretching to the sky
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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
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