Coffee with Mayor Kartak
SNOHOMISH — Meet Mayor John Kartak to chit-chat at 9 a.m. Friday, Feb. 12 at the Starbucks at Snohomish Station shopping center on Bickford Avenue. The mayor will be at the standalone Starbucks in the corner of the shopping plaza, not the Starbucks inside Fred Meyer.
New Monroe school board member
MONROE — The Monroe School Board last week selected Jeremiah Campbell as its newest member. He is a dean of graduate studies in theology for Global University and an adjunct professor at Northwest University whose career includes K-12 education.
Campbell serves in the geographic district north of U.S. 2 and west of Woods Creek Road. Shawn Anderson vacated this board seat in December. Campbell will serve until the position is up for election this November, and he can run to retain the seat. Twelve people applied for the vacancy.
Walk-in vaccine site (for appointments only) opens near Boeing
EVERETT — A mass vaccination site opened last week at the Boeing Everett Activity Center (6400 36th Ave. W.). It replaces the Paine Field drive-up, which has been suspended and its resources moved to the Boeing vaccine site. People who received their first dose at the Paine Field site will have their second dose appointment at the Boeing site, officials said. The Boeing site is using Moderna vaccines.
Countywide, more than 53,700 people have received at least one dose of vaccine, and more than 8,400 people are known to have both doses as of the latest available data from Jan. 31.
Vaccine supplies continue to run out because of demand.
Deadline nears to help write ballot statements on Snohomish road tax
SNOHOMISH — People have until Feb. 19 to apply to help write the voter’s pamphlet statements either for or against the city’s transportation benefit district sales tax on August ballots.(story opens in new window)
If passed, money would go toward street maintenance as well as to replace the stoplight at Pine Avenue and Second Street and put a traffic light at Bickford Avenue and 19th.
To get involved, contact city clerk Brandi Whitson: whitson@snohomishwa.gov or send a letter of interest to City Hall.
