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Kids show what they can cook
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Cascade View Elementary School 4th grader AJ Hanson forms the ingredients to make one of his Peanut Butter Oatmeal Protein Balls during the Snohomish School District’s annual Kids in the Kitchen / Junior Chef Competition at Glacier Peak High School on Friday, March 8. Fourth through sixth grade students from the district’s elementary schools were invited to submit recipes for after-school snack foods. The top competitor from each school was given a chance to create their food, and judges selected the winners. Judged categories included, health-conscious foods, simple kid-friendly preparation foods, and fun foods.
Published March 13, 2024
SNOHOMISH — The homegrown Snohomish Affordable Housing Group nonprofit has plans to add more than 20 more units in the coming years, if not many more. Completing the purchase of a sliver of the Avenue D former public works yard will help get them there.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published March 13, 2024
EVERETT — The city’s automated red light cameras at six intersections and speed zone cameras at Horizon Elementary on Casino Road will soon be in position, and all will be active by this summer. What does this mean for you?
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published March 13, 2024
MONROE and more — A U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) investigation found multiple local Subway restaurant franchise owners stole tips and altered employee timesheets to avoid paying overtime at certain Subway stores in Monroe, Sultan, Lake Stevens, Arlington and Marysville.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published March 13, 2024
SNOHOMISH — A slate of additional citywide developer incentives for affordable housing got the OK last week.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published March 13, 2024
SNOHOMISH COUNTY — The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office will resume accepting a grant for Rapid DNA testing kits that can help police more easily discover when suspects they’ve placed in custody are connected to unsolved serious crimes.
More on this story...By RICK SINNETT, published March 13, 2024
SNOHOMISH — The Snohomish Lions Club, at its March 4 meeting, was very pleased to present a check in the amount of $75,000 to the Snohomish Boys and Girls Club to assist in the building of their new Teen Center.
More on this story... published March 13, 2024
SNOHOMISH — The school board voted 4-1 last week for Superintendent Kent Kultgen’s recommendation to continue the current model for elementary and middle schools versus moving sixth graders up to middle school for fall 2025. Kultgen spoke plainly that the proposal could be discussed again in a future year.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published March 6, 2024
SNOHOMISH — In early April, Fire District 4 plans to set alight some of the buildings of the block of Pine Avenue that formerly housed Steuber’s Distributing Co. for fire training purposes.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published March 6, 2024
SNOHOMISH — Flowing Lake’s floating dock needs to be replaced, and it will be. The county wants to know what people think of some ideas for the dock.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published February 28, 2024
MONROE — They fell in love, and have lived in bliss for the better of eight decades. What makes a beautiful love story? Let them tell you.
More on this story...By EMMA SCHWICHTENBERG, published March 6, 2024
MONROE — Attorneys for the now-adult woman abused by former Monroe police officer Carlos Martinez have petitioned for her trial to be re-opened, saying the opposing side did not produce a key audio interview police made with a state Department of Children Youth and Families (DCYF) worker.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published March 6, 2024
EVERETT — Parks officials are clear the 113-year-old Clark Park gazebo will be demolished. Since it’s within a historic park, though, last week city officials requested the city’s Historical Commission to informally bless the idea with directions on how to retain some of the gazebo’s history.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published March 6, 2024
SNOHOMISH COUNTY — As wildfire season approaches, authorities are planning to continue regular prescribed burns to proactively get ahead of potential wildfires.
More on this story...By McKENNA SWEET, published March 6, 2024
EVERETT — Neighbors east of Broadway are watching where a future power transmission line will run.
Utility planners are evaluating further after receiving much feedback.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published March 6, 2024
SNOHOMISH COUNTY — The end of this year’s Legislative session is scheduled for March 7. Bills from area state legislators that as of March 1 have made through both chambers, in alphabetical order, include these.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published March 6, 2024
High school senior Maverick Cradduck of Everett is returning to compete in the World championships in Irish dancing in a few short days.
More on this story...By EMMA SCHWICHTENBERG, published February 28, 2024
MONROE — It could be mid-March when the food bank's expanded shopping area has its official clearances to welcome shoppers to look and see. They’re re-branding the name for the shopping experience, revamping the feel and making it bright and clean.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published February 28, 2024
MALTBY — A contested development along Paradise Lake Road that would add more than 400 residents now has the green light, but the approval stipulates that key road improvements to state Route 522 and nearby streets must happen.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published February 28, 2024
SNOHOMISH — The city is preparing to ink a deal for trash collection to continue with Republic Services for seven more years to 2031. The City Council is scheduled to sign the contract at its March 5 meeting.
Service rates will go up April 1. Details of the proposal in story.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published February 28, 2024
SNOHOMISH — The city could soon be the new stewards of Bob Heirman’s former family homestead.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published February 28, 2024
SNOHOMISH — Snohomish High School’s band and choir are going to be performing in Disneyland this spring in what should be a memorable trip.
More on this story...By NATHAN WHALEN, published February 21, 2024
SNOHOMISH COUNTY — County Councilman Nate Nehring has introduced an ordinance to require annual testing of drug chemicals in county-owned supportive housing facilities.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published February 21, 2024
EVERETT — Decisions about asking voters to annex the city library system into Sno-Isle Libraries, to ask voters to spin off the Everett Fire Department to be part of a regional fire authority and to ask voters to increase property taxes above the state’s 1% annual limit are coming. The target is to get one or more of these measures on November's ballot.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published February 14, 2024
SNOHOMISH COUNTY —A program directing people to the most efficient and appropriate level of care when calling 911 launched earlier this month.
More on this story...PRESS RELEASE published February 14, 2024
SNOHOMISH — Residents of Snohomish are proud of their town; they can balance the feeling of history in downtown, and festivals help continue its small-town feel.
It’s what drew Swapnil
Shevate to Snohomish to raise a family and pursue the American Dream.
More on this story...By RICK SINNETT, published February 14, 2024
MONROE — Residents still displaced weeks after a freak Jan. 15 flood in the River’s Edge Apartments are taking it day by day as their units are inhabitable, and have uncertainty on when there will be resolution.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published February 7, 2024
EVERETT — The 103-year-old gazebo at Clark Park will be removed because of safety concerns at the park, Mayor Cassie Franklin made public late last month. An off-leash dog park will take its place.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published February 7, 2024
SNOHOMISH — Remember When Antiques Mall is closing in the coming weeks due to circumstances beyond its control. The building's new owners plan a big renovation.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published February 7, 2024
EVERETT — Combining the city’s Everett Transit bus system into the region’s Community Transit system would yield more routes in Everett, later service hours and shorter bus wait times, leaders from both systems presented last week.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published February 7, 2024
VFW Post 7511 member Jeremy Blake views artwork hanging at the VFW Art Gallery grand opening in Monroe on Feb. 3. Blake, a member of the Army Infantry, has been involved with VFW Post 7511 for a year.
MONROE — Veterans, community leaders and members of the community gathered on Saturday to welcome and celebrate the opening of a downtown art gallery. The gallery is an initiative of the Veterans Arts Council for Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 7511.
More on this story...By EMMA SCHWICHTENBERG, published February 7, 2024
MONROE — The PUD intends to purchase First Air Field to eventually turn it into a central campus for quicker storm outage responses up the Sky Valley and to be the area’s sole customer service office.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published January 31, 2024
SNOHOMISH — Ashleigh Cruze is new to the Snohomish Community Food Bank, but not to Snohomish.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published January 31, 2024
Real mighty robots
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Student Ana Valencia puts “Maestro,” the Snohomish School District robotics team’s robot, through a few test moves before final competition at Glacier Peak High School on Sunday, March 3. The team is comprised of 60 members from Glacier Peak and Snohomish high schools. They competed in the FIRST Washington Robotics event along with 33 other teams from throughout the Puget Sound area.
Published March 6, 2024
SNOHOMISH COUNTY — Several cold weather shelters in Snohomish County are open. Locations and other information in story.
More on this story...By NATHAN WHALEN, published November 1, 2023
The Murder on Pine
SNOHOMISH — A shooting took place at a house at Fourth and Pine on the Memorial Day weekend of 1933. A mom lost her life. Decades later, her grandson went digging for what happened in this
forgotten story of Snohomish's history.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published January 10, 2024
SNOHOMISH — A majority of the restaurants told by the city to get official permits for their outdoor dining structures and canopies or otherwise take them down to meet life and safety codes are each now trying to navigate a maze of regulations. More than one expressed they're getting no help to figure all of it out. Here is what has been happening.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published December 6, 2023
EVERETT — A new lawsuit against the Everett School District by the parents of a middle school student who was verbally and physically abused by his peers for being gay contends this is a discrimination case because, they say, the school district didn't protect their son like how they would with other kids.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published November 8, 2023
SNOHOMISH COUNTY — The county has to rescind its rule that allowed more rural landowners to be able to build a second, smaller house anywhere on their property after a state board determined in June this conflicts with growth management land-use rules.
More on this story...By MICHAEL WHITNEY, published October 25, 2023
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Tai chi weekly
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Toshiko Renshaw of Everett (left) moves during a Tai Chi program at the Carl Gipson Center in Everett earlier this year. Instructor Maki Perry teaches the program which uses a Korean style of Tai Chi. The Tai Chi and QiGong classes at the Gipson Center are Tuesday and Thursday mornings.
Published February 28, 2024
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