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GroundFrog Day to be retired after this year

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

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Affordable housing idea could be done in Snohomish

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An idea that could be used in Snohomish.

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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.

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The Murder on Pine

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

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County Council pauses Lord Hill Park equestrian parking lot swap

The county’s parks department must hold its horses on swapping the equestrian parking lot at Lord Hill Regional Park to one with back-in angle parking.

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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.

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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.

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Monroe suspends remote public comments at council andcity board meetings after recent hate speech disruption

Abusive hate speech by anonymous people online during the public comments period of the Dec. 5 City Council meeting has prompted the city to temporarily halt taking remote public testimony at all of its council, board and commission meetings.

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Remembering the summer Snohomish sent its band to Europe: The 1968 tour

In the summer of 1968, Snohomish High's band students performed in six foreign countries on a European tour.

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Letters in the Tribune from 2023 and 2022

Letters published in the Tribune from 2023 and 2022, in full

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City of Monroe finishes downtown land purchases toward future park plaza

The city announced Dec. 21 it has completed the purchase of two adjacent properties in downtown Monroe for a future large public plaza at Blakeley and Main streets.

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Monte Cristo Awards, for Everett’s finest homes, revived through Stonecipher’s allocation

The Monte Cristo Awards are expected to be back for 2024 and the short term future.

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Port of Everett seeks to expand tax district countywide

The port commission directed staff to approach the County Council to ask them to place a measure on the August 2024 ballot. The measure would ask voters outside the boundaries to put themselves into the port's tax district boundaries.

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Everett gives option to set mandatory minimum sentences onrepeat criminals

A split City Council voted 4-2 last week to allow prosecutors to elect to add a 30-day mandatory minimum jail sentence on repeat offenders for specific crimes such as theft, assault or vehicle prowling.

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Latest COVID variant JN.1 hardier than predecessors, but its risk deemed “low”

A more mutated version of the omicron coronavirus spreading worldwide, the COVID JN.1 strain, was named by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a variant of concern Dec. 19.

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Seahawks come visit Snohomish Senior Center

Longtime 12s saw them play, and now they can say they’ve met ‘em too.

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Decision nears on townhome development proposal near 522 – Paradise Lake Road

A proposed townhome community off of Paradise Lake Road faced a new round of neighborhood opposition last week.

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Snohomish brewer sentenced to six months in jail

Brewer Frank Sandoval was sentenced to jail for six months, which started Dec. 13, on one count of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes by Snohomish County Superior Court Judge George Appel Dec. 13.

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Everett City Council limit on serving two seats withdrawn

An idea to preclude people serving in other elected offices from being on Everett City Council was withdrawn last week by its originator

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Mayor Franklin hires retired Chief Templeman for vacant senior administration role

Retired Police Chief Dan Templeman has joined Mayor Cassie Franklin’s administration as one of her two senior executive directors.