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Elementary students are preparing to return to classrooms
Stanwood is already teaching kindergartners on campus. Sultan and Arlington will soon follow suit.
More Local News
Housing Hope’s playfield proposal splits planning commission
After a 3-3 vote on the land-use changes, no recommendation will be given to the Everett City Council.
County grows ‘no-shooting’ zone after bullet just misses child
The Snohomish County Council voted Wednesday to prohibit shooting in two areas on Monroe’s outskirts.
Sports
County Hall of Fame Class of 2020: Jill Mayer
The 1997 Everett alum has captured six Special Olympics World Games medals, including one gold.
POLL RESULTS: Readers have big belief in the Seattle Storm
More than three-quarters of the voters picked the Storm to claim the WNBA championship.
Life in Snohomish County
Gold tones of ‘Fluffy’ conifers make the landscape sparkle
It’s a new variety of Thuja plicata, native to the Pacific coast, known as western arborvitae.
A few perennial gems to help brighten up the fall garden
He can’t help but find new treasures to plant each time he visits the nursery. Here are four he added recently.
Cascadia reopens with works by 3 Northwest master artists
Take heart, music fans: The shows will return, virus permitting
The wages of sin are bloody in this Southern Gothic yarn
Great Plant Pick: Colchicum ‘Waterlily,’ double-flowered autumn crocus
French window bench in style the last half of the 18th century
Herald Business Journal
‘Better with Boeing’ campaign aims to keep 787 assembly here
A new marketing effort hopes to persuade the company to keep Dreamliner work in Everett.
Panel blasts Boeing, FAA for ‘horrific culmination’ of failures
Investigators found that the company had a financial incentive to avoid more pilot training.
Opinion
Editorial: With McCarthy, Auditor’s Office now able watchdog
Pat McCarthy has restored morale and overseen efforts that provide greater access to audit findings.
Northwest
Federal judge blocks Postal Service changes that slowed mail
In Yakima, he issued a nationwide injunction sought by 14 states that sued the Trump administration.
Lightning storm, easterly wind: How the wildfires got so bad
Is it climate change? Or a lack of aggressive forest management?
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Anti-mask preacher may draw hundreds to Snohomish church
Possible rare ‘seven-armed octopus’ found on Whidbey beach
Pastor who visited Snohomish: ‘We’ve been duped’ about virus
Editorial cartoons for Wednesday, Sept. 16
Auditor: $300,000 unaccounted for from Monte Cristo cleanup
Anacortes woman identified in death at Arlington park
Inmate, 34, dies at the Snohomish County Jail
