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Snohomish gazebo vandal selected his targets

The vandal had a falling out with the son of the private company owner who orchestrated the gazebo’s 2022 renovation.

Snohomish mayor might be given salary increase by council, meeting to discuss is this Thursday, Nov. 10Followup coverage:

The City Council is prepared to make Mayor Linda Redmon's salary $30,000 a year, up from $18,000. Five council members came to this consensus at a workshop last week.

Everett trying to stay on course with its budget

Mayor Cassie Franklin’s proposed $543.7 million budget avoids service cuts

Outrage in Snohomish over situation, leadership response to May 31 events

As the evening progressed Sunday, May 31, the crowd shifted on First Street. A few bore Confederate flags.

News Bites for April 14, 2021

Midtown to be Council topic April 20

Paine Field could be designated to grow

A state airports committee is suggesting to either greatly grow services at Everett’s Paine Field

New Snohomish City Hall / PD campus designs shown, funding plan nearly done

SNOHOMISH -- Details of the future City Hall in Snohomish to be built at Pine Avenue and Third Street.

Not much wiggle room in Everett’s budget balancing plan

Mayor Cassie Franklin is scheduled to release her 2021 budget on Sept. 16

More activity on First Street Monday night, teen injured in conflict

Monday night saw a huge gathering people of standing at Avenue D and Second Street, while armed people again stood guard along First Street.

Local water systems opting out of DuPont, 3M PFAS class action settlements

Local water systems have been opting out of taking settlements in two national class action lawsuits over PFAS “forever” chemicals for a variety of reasons.

Everett balances budget, mayor to add more police officers

Better-than-predicted economic growth seen this year is helping allow Everett to prepare a balanced city budget for 2024

196-unit Maltby development could be sign of similar to come

County Hearing Examiner Peter Camp last week denied an appeal from two area residents seeking to reopen the land-use approval of the 196-unit Snohomish Garden Townhomes development east of state Route 522 and Paradise Lake Road, throwing out the entire appeal as not showing proof the decision should be reopened.

County Council field answers questions on housing, ag land

There’s less than a month before Everett and Mukilteo voters will need to sift through eight candidates for County Council Position No. 2.

Snohomish eyes housing on part of 10-acre Ludwig park

The city is proposing to allow multi-family housing on a portion of Homestead Park off of Ludwig Road

Legal fight that delayed building Snohomish to Woodinville trail along rail line over

SNOHOMISH — Snohomish County’s conversion of an unused rail line into a future bicycle and pedestrian trail segment from Snohomish to Woodinville cleared major hurdles with the federal rail authority in the past eight weeks.

Snohomish vandal arrested

On the morning of Feb. 23, police caught up with the man who went on a vandalism spree in town Feb. 8.

Tentative map for Everett council districts created, comment meetings in September

The map to be used for the shakeup of City Council seats using elections by geographical districts is almost ready for final public comments.

Discrimination case against Snohomish Regional Fire and Rescue now is in federal Ninth Circuit appeals court

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.

Former Eastside Tire site on Avenue D changing hands

People still phone up Dan Poteet for service at Eastside Tire

Local Subway shop owners stole tips, shorted wages

A U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) investigation found multiple local Subway restaurant franchises stole tips and altered employee timesheets to avoid paying overtime.