By a vote of 3-2, the Snohomish County Council on Nov. 25 approved a 2025-2026 biennial budget that rejected County Executive Dave Somers’ proposal for an 8% property tax increase over two years, instead amending it to a 4% increase over the biennium.
This year, at the Snohomish Lions Club annual Thanksgiving Banquet and Auction, they added a special FUND-A-NEED to the auction and raised nearly $8,000 for Camp Leo.
Angels Among Us was founded to provide a means to serve those in our Snohomish County community. Those interested in donating, whether it is physical gifts or gift cards, have an opportunity to shop and drop off donations through Dec. 10 at the Snohomish Valley Golf Center, 8511 Marsh Rd. in Snohomish.
The county made an emergency declaration
SNOHOMISH — Nobody was inside when the trees crashed, but now a young Lake Roesiger-area family is left seeking a new home.
SNOHOMISH — A thick American Elm maybe five stories high uprooted and crashed down onto one of the historic homes along Avenue B around midnight during last Tuesday’s heavy windstorm.
SNOHOMISH — After hearing watershed concerns, the City Council wants to take a closer look at the plan for Homestead Park, on the city’s west side, before agreeing to hire a designer to refine the concept.
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.
