EVERETT — The Everett public library system will be open fewer days and fewer hours starting Dec. 1, and be providing fewer general services, its director outlined at City Council.
SNOHOMISH — This month Snohomish County Fire District #4 received two new pieces of safety equipment: the StormStick and an oxygen cylinder lift. One is to reduce the risks of carcinogen contamination and the other to reduce injury to firefighters.
EVERETT — Since 1981, Christmas House has helped lower-income families throughout Snohomish County provide gifts for their children. Qualifying families for Christmas House have to be at or below the 150% federal poverty line.
EVERETT — A free, weekly health care clinic that opened on Casino Road is being called the first time “low-income adults in South Everett who lack health insurance will have access to primary care at no cost,” say organizers Connect Casino Road.
SNOHOMISH -- Bickford Motors, the Ford dealership, has reached 90 years of operations.
SNOHOMISH — While it may not have been one of the largest of fires in the Snohomish’s history, The 1956 Rabenstein gas station fire tends to be one of the most remembered by those who were here at the time.
County Council alters property tax rate
Caseloads at the county haven’t kept up with the growing population, and cases are getting denser and more complex. Meanwhile, the recategorization of drugs and drug possession as a gross misdemeanor has driven an estimated 90% of this caseload increase in Everett for Everett prosecutors.
MONROE — The nonprofit that runs youth quarter midget racing at the Evergreen State Fair Park fears it will get shut out of running on its longtime track.
County Executive Dave Somers’ proposal to raise the county property tax rate by 8%, which would pencil to about a $15 increase to a $600,000 home according to the county finance office, has generated two separate countermeasures from the County Council ratcheting the rate down. Council Vice President Nate Nehring proposes taking no increase, and making multiple budget cuts to offset not having as much revenue come in. Nehring said the public doesn’t have an appetite for more taxes. Council President Jared Mead proposed a middle ground of 4%.
SNOHOMISH — Glacier Peak High School’s theatre students are turning back the clock to bring history to life onstage with their fall production of “Radium Girls” that has shows Nov. 22 and 23.
“When is the tree lighting” and other questions answered for events in Snohomish, Monroe and Everett
SNOHOMISH — The chamber is doing a new initiative this weekend called The Big Give, a free-entry event meant to show off some Christmas spirit.
SNOHOMISH — There’s no quick fix for the pothole covered by a steel plate on the Bickford Bridge over state Route 9.
EVERETT -- Profile story on Janice Greene.
Cold weather shelters around Snohomish County available for when freezing temps threaten
Ways for seniors to give back through their time.
The City Council is going through the final stages of deciding Everett’s near-$950 million budget. Public hearings will be at the Nov. 13 and Nov. 20 council meetings. The final council vote will be Dec. 4.
MUKILTEO — On Aug. 18, the crew from the Suquamish ferry on the Mukilteo-Clinton route rescued a woman stranded in the water near the Boeing Pier. Those involved were recently honored with Life Rings.
Backyard poultry keepers have been on alert of a new wave of avian flu, and are calling on people to lock up their flocks.
