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Sean Sanderson trims excess fat off a New York cut of Wagyu at EC Wilson Meats on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 in Lynnwood, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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$100 a steak at Costco? Japanese Wagyu cows sure are pricey

The highly marbled steaks melt like butter and are rich in flavor. And now the masses can enjoy…

Dianne Easley, left, and Pam Thomas take care of customers at the Providence Regional Medical Center gift shop Thursday, April 21, 2022, in Everett, Washington. (Ryan Berry / The Herald)

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Get some retail therapy at a Providence hospital gift shop

The Providence Regional Medical Center gift shops reopened after being closed two years due to COVID-19.

Gus Mansour sings during a rehearsal for the upcoming  annual Elvis Challenge Wednesday afternoon in Everett, Washington on April 13, 2022. (Kevin Clark / The Herald)

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Who’s the best Elvis? They’ll croon for ‘The King’ crown

Get all shook up at “Kentucky Rain Band’s Elvis Challenge” on Friday at the Historic Everett Theatre.

Mike Lane and son Dave Lane, right, in front of their family store Everett Vacuum with their popular sign and saying, “everything we sell sucks” on Thursday, April 7, 2022, in Everett, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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‘Everything we sell sucks’: The dirt on Everett’s most accurate ad

The sign at the vacuum-cleaner store on Broadway gets attention and laughs. And every so often, it goes…

Real Estate consultants and twin sisters Leslie Davis and Lyndsay Lamb staging in the newly renovated downstairs family room in the Thaut House, as seen on "Unsellable Houses." (HGTV)

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Snohomish sisters shine in new season of ‘Unsellable Houses’

The 13 new episodes show that with elbow grease and ingenuity, nothing is unsellable in this wild market.

A drawing by PUD employee Lincoln Manahan and his daughter Kea submitted with the idea for a squirrel mascot. This won’t be the final art for the squirrel marketing.

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Zip and Zap? Volt and Watt? Help name PUD’s squirrel mascots

The public utility is taking a vote on names. Squirrels trampled Bigfoot in a vote for the mascot…

Children of all ages bounce around at Flying Squirrel Trampoline Park Saturday, March 19, 2022, in Everett, Washington. (Ryan Berry / The Herald)

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Bounce, baby, bounce! Everett’s Flying Squirrel is spring-loaded

The new indoor trampoline center at a former Toys R Us site is filled with ways to burn…

Alex Lewis, of Wanderer Barbering Co., cuts the hair of Anna Kincaid in the mobile hair studio that Lewis created last year on Saturday, March 26, 2022, in Everett, Washington. (Ryan Berry / The Herald)

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Driving with scissors: This barber shop is on wheels

Stylist Alex Lewis of Everett started Wanderer Barbering Co. in a van to bring cuts to clients.

Peter Jackson in 2018. (Submitted photo)

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Celebrating writer and human rights champion Peter Jackson

A Sunday gathering at Town Hall in Seattle marks what would have been the 56th birthday for Scoop’s…

Aya Zebari, 2, the granddaughter of reporter Andrea Brown, plays in the living room of her grandparents’ recently renovated home Thursday, March 17, 2022, in Everett, Washington. (Ryan Berry / The Herald)

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Surprise! Life in a 100-year-old house is never dull

When you buy an old house, you wait for the next thing to go wrong. And you don’t…

Jose Lopez, a Lynnwood self-employed painter, won $2.4 million on a progressive slot machine at Tulalip Resort Casino on March 20. This beats the previous $1.1 million record at the casino, and is the largest known slot machine win at any casino in state history. (Photo provided)

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With $5 bet, Lynnwood man hits $2.4 million slots jackpot at Tulalip

Jose Lopez won the highest slots payout in the state’s casino history on the game Golden Charms.

Writes the photographer, Ukrainian artist Anatoly Melaniy: "The photo was taken in June 2020. This is the entrance of our house. I went up to the apartment and saw pigeons cooing on the windowsill against the backdrop of the same house as ours. I was also happy about this bird's joy of love. It's been exactly a year since we moved into this house, to a new apartment. I asked them to wait so that they don't fly away until I get the phone. You rarely have time to photograph such shots. And everything turned out."

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What you see from your window is seen by 3.1 million viewers

Facebook’s “View From My Window” launched early in the pandemic continues to connect people worldwide.

Mukilteo Mayor-again Joe Marine on December 8, 2021. (Kevin Clark / The Herald)

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In Mukilteo, mayor-council friction over diversity appointees

The balance of power between the mayor and City Council members has played out at recent meetings.

Eight of the Washington Lottery’s “luckiest retailers” are right here in Snohomish County. On the $5 scratch ticket "Triple Fortune Dragon Spitfire," the odds are 1 in 3.31 of winning a prize in 11 amounts from $5 to $50,000 on the 6.6 million tickets printed. At this writing, six of the 12 prizes of $50,000 have not been claimed. (Andrea Brown / The Herald)

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8 of Lottery’s ‘lucky retailers’ in region are in Snohomish County

The top two in the county were Safeway stores in Everett and Monroe. Got a hunch on who…

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Lake Stevens trucker ‘Stogie’ chronicles long-haul life on TikTok

Shawn Dirksen traded the cigar industry for driving a big rig with his pit bull, Bonnie. They keep…

Hank Nelson

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Hank Nelson, 84, leaves behind 450 sculptures at Whidbey park

The 20-acre Cloudstone Sculpture Park in Freeland will continue tours of Nelson’s art and workshops.

J.P. Patches Washington State License Plate.  The proposed J.P. Patches license plate would raise money for Seattle Children's Hospital's Strong Against Cancer.  (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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J.P. Patches plate: Would you want this clown on your car?

State lawmakers have finally given the OK for a “Patches Pal” license plate featuring the iconic TV show’s…

Lee Oskar plays on one of his custom harmonicas in his recording studio in his home on Wednesday, March 2, 2022 in Everett, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Harmonica virtuoso Lee Oskar debuts somber album ‘Never Forget’

The Danish musician of the funk band War and “Low Rider” fame makes art and music from his…

Gabriel Herrera works on a piece of artwork in his studio Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Lake Stevens, Washington. Herrera said he is in his blue phase as an artist, which is why he uses blue pens to create his art. (Ryan Berry / The Herald)

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Prison was art school for this Lake Stevens man

While incarcerated in Monroe for 10 years, Gabriel Herrera used a ballpoint pen to stick out.

A bucket of Zoo Doo compost at Woodland Park Zoo in 2016. (Andy Bronson / Herald file)

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Holy crap! Exotic compost from Woodland Park Zoo up for grabs

There’s plenty of Zoo Doo to go around. The zoo has ended a lottery system that limited who…