About a week or so ago, my wife and I noticed that a pair of swallows were attempting to build a nest on a small flat surface just above our front door. The flat surface, although well protected from weather was in a most annoying place for us.

While the City of Mill Creek’s crime rate in many categories has actually decreased, the Mill Creek community is seeing an increase in vehicle prowls.

This is due in large part to the heroin epidemic; burglaries for such purposes increased 23 percent year-over-year in 2016.

Fun and enthusiastic, our dog of the week Petee is a five-year-old Chihuahua who is ready to find his forever family!

Petee has spunk to spare, and enjoys chasing tennis balls, rolling in the grass and strutting down the street on walks.

Mill Creek Police officers make any number of contacts and respond to numerous calls for service every day. This week’s police beat contains a brief description of a portion of those calls for the week of July 7th to July 13th.

Snohomish County Fire District 1 responded to 478 calls from July 6th to 12th.

The Whistling Gardener used to own a landscape contracting business where he kept landscape design simple using maybe only three to four different types of plants and planting them in large drifts. Today he has too many favorites for such simple landscapes.

At their July 5, 2017, meeting, the Snohomish County Council approved a new plan that consolidates the county’s surface water utility into one surface water management district in order to cut costs and improve services.