A near-majority of City Council members are leaning toward banning fireworks use out of Snohomish, plus taking a few other steps
The city will bump up its sales tax rate as part of a goal to foster more affordable housing in town.
MONROE — SharinaBean’s on Main is hunting for a new spot. The coffeehouse at 103 W. Main St. announced it will be closing Saturday, April 19 as its lease isn’t being renewed. It has been here 8½ years. The building was purchased. McCrain said she sensed from conversations early on that her shop wasn’t part of the plan for the building’s future.
On a crisp, cool night, 747 No. 1,547 rolled out of the factory
Meth and fentanyl contamination prompted a red-tag on most units of the low-barrier Clare’s Place apartment complex, forcing the relocation of once-homeless tenants into a temporary village that was quickly erected late last week.
People come to pay their respects.
It’s almost time to hop over to the parade.
The Snohomish chiropractor accused of inappropriately touching clients faces eight criminal counts of taking indecent liberties with patients.
The city’s new lighted, all-weather playing fields at Lake Tye Park are ready for play.
Police are spreading photos of murder suspect Shawntea Hamilton far and wide in a growing search for her.
A rough outline of the combined properties the city bought for a future public space are marked in black.
Little children this summer will again get to mingle with the goats, chickens, rabbits and all the other friends they encounter at the Forest Park Animal Farm petting zoo.
The Snohomish United girls soccer team is going to Nationals.
Blackman Lake is still struggling. Water clarity is getting murkier. Phosphorous, which robs water of oxygen, is increasing. Some described that Blackman Lake is undergoing a slow, natural process of dying. A 2021 look at the situation.
A few native plants could go a long way to helping rehabilitate Blackman Lake.
When the state Supreme Court voided any penalty for the possession of illegal drugs
The Sky Valley Food Bank’s director Matt Campbell lately has had a certain sense of eagerness.
SNOHOMISH — A wedding at a farm can be the perfect backdrop, but those farms that converted their barns into regularly booked wedding spaces or other uses got put on the back foot this summer. The barn’s not agricultural anymore, so the land around it is not allowed to be given a special lowered property tax rate named Open Space. The tax fee for changing the land use out of Open Space is seven years of back taxes plus a 20% penalty. At least a handful of farms in the Snohomish River Valley received sizable tax bills last summer. Local lawmakers noticed. They have a new bill to clarify the rules, and the county assessor is on board.
A Snohomish woman worried that the Southern Resident Orca pods* could go extinct without immediate intervention set up a post at the Capitol grounds in Olympia last week on a hunger strike.
Come January, state legislators will begin cleaning up ambiguities within the slew of police reform bills passed this year to make them clearer to follow, according to Snohomish County Council members who have spoken with key state Legislators.
