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Snohomish public safety concerns for city residents outlined

Crime prevention emerges as a prominent concern for over 80% of city residents, a survey by the city’s Public Safety Board (PSB) revealed.

2024 Prodigies for Peace contest winners

Students from across Snohomish County wrote and drew of why Martin Luther King Jr. is meaningful for the 23rd annual Prodigies For Peace contest.

Snohomish chamber refocusing with future plans

Changes are happening at the Snohomish Chamber of Commerce. Its membership is growing, and it has ideas for adding more workshops and eventually creating a permanent business development hub.

Everett seals Waits Motel purchase

The city has bought the Waits Motel, 1301 Lombard Ave., as the City Council gave a 7-0 approval on it last week. A sale price of $1.85 million was agreed in December.

Monroe crosswalks at key locations to get more safety features

Work crews this summer will install flashing beacons at crosswalks near schools and other places through town, particularly along west Main Street.

Local water systems opting out of DuPont, 3M PFAS class action settlements

Local water systems have been opting out of taking settlements in two national class action lawsuits over PFAS “forever” chemicals for a variety of reasons.

GroundFrog Day to be retired after this year

Snohomish’s traditional GroundFrog Day is giving way after 18 years.

Everett’s city library system, fire department may eventually cease being independent

To rein in the city’s persistent annual budget deficit, city leaders may ask voters for a property tax lid lift greater than 1% in the near future.

Proposal to place Snohomish sixth graders in middle schools gets mixed views

The school district’s proposal to move sixth graders from elementary school to middle school in 2025 is creating vigorous conversation among parents of elementary-age children.

Don Schwab is Everett city council president this year

Councilman Don Schwab will lead council proceedings this year as president and Ben Zarlingo is vice president. The council voted 5-2 on both nominations.

Waits Motel sale to Everett nears finish

The city has a signed purchase-and-sale that completes eminent domain on the Waits Motel, which it had declared fit for condemnation over the summer after the city’s purchase offer on the open market was declined almost a year ago.

Sheriff Johnson sets new command staff

Sheriff Susanna Johnson was sworn-in the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 2

North Everett Bartell Drugs on Broadway to close

The Bartell Drugs at 1825 Broadway will close Jan. 15, its struggling owners Rite Aid confirmed to the Tribune.

New movement on Pine Ave. fire station-city campus plan, contamination still to be investigated further

Officials with Fire District 4 and the city say they are still on track with a joint public safety campus which will have a future fire station and future city hall and other services in the block along Pine Avenue between Third and Fourth streets later this decade.

The Murder on Pine

On May 28, 1933, blood shed at a house at Pine and Fourth with the crack of a gun.