Snohomish County recently received a grant to add continuous center turn lanes, sidewalks, bike lanes, curbs, and gutters on 35th Avenue SE from Maltby Road to 180th Street SE.

The grant enables construction to start during spring 2020.

During this dark and often dreary time of year it’s always fun to pile the kids in the car, bring along some hot cocoa to sip on, play Christmas music, and take a drive around local neighborhoods looking at Christmas light displays.

Most of the ballots that have been received have now been counted. 202,911 General Election ballots received by Snohomish County have been recorded as of Thursday afternoon, November 14th.

Only about 170 ballots are left to be counted.

All Mill Creek City Council incumbents have won their races and Mill Creek Planning Commissioner April Berg has succeeded in her effort to join the Everett School Board of Directors.

Washington State Governor Jay Inslee announced his appointment of two new members to Cascadia College’s Board of Trustees. Dr. Colleen Ponto and Dr. Meghan Quint will fill two open seats.

In 2019 Bothell's Cascadia College was awarded the top spot in the nation among colleges and universities for the second year running for sustainable grounds and landscape.

Students in the college’s Bachelors of Applied Science in Sustainable Practices program are required to do an internship, working with a sustainability oriented organization or company.

Three students took this opportunity to travel – doing internships in Olympia WA, at Craters of the Moon National Park in Idaho, and in Iceland.

Although mailed-in ballots are still arriving at Snohomish County Elections, the numbers returned each day are slowing to a trickle.

This means many of the local races with three or more candidates have narrowed down to the two who will be on November’s General Election ballot.

Ready or not, fireworks went on sale for the 4th of July festivities on Friday, June 28th, at noon. In unincorporated Snohomish County fireworks can only be discharged on Thursday, July 4th, from 9:00 am to 11:59 pm. 

Mill Creek and a number of other cities have further restricted or banned the sale and discharge of fireworks.