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Everett Public Libraries provide service updates

You can’t browse the local library shelves inside yet, but the library system is trying to serve the public’s interests in every other way possible.

Flooding risks anticipated this winter

This year’s high precipitation levels may set Snohomish County’s rivers up for a flooding situation in January.

Everett Transit may bring back Sunday service if public wants

Everett Transit buses at the "bus barn" parking lot seen Nov. 2. The electric buses were charging for their midday charging needs.

Everett council adjusts final budget to fund senior center, cut elsewhere

Not everyone will get what they want in the city’s $651 million budget for next year.

Snohomish Carnegie venue rental plans outlined

The City Council began discussing the future plans for the newly renovated Carnegie building at the Dec. 1 council meeting.

Snohomish Regional Fire predicts call numbers to be similar

On Tuesday Nov. 17, Snohomish Regional Fire and Rescue presented at the City Council meeting to inform council members of its budget proposal for 2021.

A countywide tax for affordable housing may be discussed in 2021

County elected leaders are being asked to enact a new sales tax to help pay to construct subsidized housing.

Roundtable talks racism in Snohomish Schools

Racially insensitive remarks sometimes were heard in hushed voices and sometimes echoed in the halls of Snohomish Schools, students of color said during a recent roundtable talk on racism.

Everett focusing on affordable housing, to host Dec. 8 meeting

The city will begin analyzing housing types and styles in the planning code soon.

Monroe first-graders back home after all

The district’s reopening plan to use an in-person model of learning for first graders

Monroe first-graders return to classrooms

Despite a rising number of coronavirus cases in Snohomish County

Monroe council makes preliminary denial on Marshall Field rezone

The City Council made a preliminary denial against the proposal to re-zone Marshall Field for multi-family residential use at the Nov. 10 council meeting

COVID-19: Renewed restrictions on in-person gatherings, restaurants, bars (November 2020)

Gov. Jay Inslee announced restrictions Sunday, Nov. 15 that prohibit indoor social gatherings under practically all circumstances

Everett Transit’s Sunday bus services were not going to be restored

The city’s bus system doesn’t plan to bring back Sunday service anytime soon. Bus service on holidays is also being cut.

LOCAL HEROES

Snohomish’s Sammie Davis fights forest fires nationallyPhoto courtesy Sammie Davis

Seeing 12-foot flames around you

COVID-19 cases up, and nearing infection levels seen in spring (November 2020)

SNOHOMISH COUNTY — COVID-19’s spread in the community has crept back up, capping a rough October 2020 in the fight against the coronavirus.

Norton Playfield housing project for homeless kids denied 4-2 over location

In a 4-2 vote that was clearly tough to make, the City Council last week denied a nonprofit’s rezone request to be able to build a multi-story apartment complex for homeless families in a historic single-family neighborhood.

Tribune NEWS BITES for Oct. 28, 2020

Free flu vaccines for uninsured

Marshall Field open space rezone recommended

The planning commission recommended approving amendments to the Marshall Field rezone at an Oct. 12 public hearing.

Monroe mayor’s no-frills 2021 budget has no property tax increase

Mayor Geoffrey Thomas’s budget largely sticks with what’s working to enter 2021 on stable footing.