SNOHOMISH — Snohomish’s Earth Day celebration is growing for its third year at the Carnegie Building. The takeaway is to learn something you can do yourself to, as the event theme says, “move the needle” for sustainability.
Pretty soon, the county will be in the thick of candidate filing week, which runs from May 5 to 9. State Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) records reviewed April 17 give an indicative picture of the local races shaping up for Snohomish, Monroe, Everett and Lake Stevens.
Two teen golf caddies have won full-ride college scholarships
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.
SNOHOMISH — The causing driver of a March 9 head-on crash just north of the Snohomish River Bridge on state Route 9 had open containers of alcohol in her car and told state troopers she hadn’t installed her mandatory ignition interlock device yet. The woman she hit is still hospitalized five weeks later. No charges have been filed here. A follow up on a crash.
Whooping cough is rising in Snohomish County
SNOHOMISH — A federal government cutback has food banks such as Snohomish’s hunting for help.
SNOHOMISH — Prominent changes to First Street, displayed last week as concepts being evaluated, could see narrower road lanes to accommodate wider sidewalks and may see angled parking switched for parallel parking. These options are meant to make the street safer for crossing pedestrians and more attractive streetside. As the corridor is one of the city’s crown jewels, City Hall is taking as much feedback it can get.
CLEARVIEW — A second marijuana retailer wanting to open along Highway 9 aroused not just a formal complaint to county officials filed by a competitor but also a room-filling meeting about the topic last week.
MONROE — Online pictures of a yard filled with water at a house in the Fryelands Neighborhood during Ziply Fiber’s underground installation work caught neighbors’ attention last week.
SNOHOMISH — Numerous people came to G.A.R. Cemetery over the weekend finding the objects and tokens that had been on their family members’ graves removed and placed in an assorted pile by the main office.
MONROE — The appeal case of the “Firefighter 8,” a religious discrimination case of eight Snohomish Fire and Rescue (SRFR) frontline personnel suing for back pay after they were put on months of unpaid leave for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, has its next step in federal appeals court this week. Oral arguments will be heard April 3 in Portland in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
SNOHOMISH — City administration last week reaffirmed plans to add Flock-brand license plate reading cameras, which can aid in crime prevention when a car is being sought.
EVERETT — The man accused of stabbing a 13-year-old walking to school in mid-January, Andrew Freeman Jr., pleaded not guilty to charges last month.
Snohomish’s future city logo, signage unveiled
Monroe’s Red Robin restaurant closes
EVERETT — Everett Transit’s plan to dispense with nine of its electric buses isn’t part of a paradigm shift for the agency, its director said last week. It has 14 more electrics arriving over the next few months to keep half its fleet electric. The past few months, though, it has been ordering reconditioned diesels as part of its fleet turnover.
SNOHOMISH -- More than 35 photos of garden vegetables, bees and food that were printed onto canvas will be spread out in the parish hall of St. John’s Episcopal Church for an art show the evening of April 5.
MONROE -- The Monroe man who led a chase through the Fryelands in late January had a felony warrant for his arrest
Bill on Ag Open Space tax rules passes in House
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