The True story of a home with roots and award-winning pride

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The True story of a home with roots and award-winning pride

The 24th annual Monte Cristo awards honor Everett’s best-dressed homes and businesses.

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Home and Garden calendar for Snohomish County and beyond

Get your hands dirty: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 7, Eagle Ridge Community Garden, 2420 Soper Hill…

Body waxing from brows to toes … and everywhere in between

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Body waxing from brows to toes … and everywhere in between

Waxology salon in downtown Everett will remove hair in places you might not know it grows.

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Three things to see and do

Name your car, check out the newest public art and don’t miss home show season.

Arlington shutterbug rediscovers his love for photography

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Arlington shutterbug rediscovers his love for photography

Todd Reynolds, 43, found a new excitement for life after picking up an old hobby. See what he…

Woodland Park’s Lulu the giraffe has been #tallestbaby since birth

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Woodland Park’s Lulu the giraffe has been #tallestbaby since birth

Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo is a wonderland of nature and animals for us Homo sapiens.

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Home and Garden calendar for Snohomish County and beyond

Get your hands dirty: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 7, Eagle Ridge Community Garden, 2420 Soper Hill…

How did 300 feathers get stuck in that old utility pole?

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How did 300 feathers get stuck in that old utility pole?

Artful adornment in Everett is the creation of a retired Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer.

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Author’s talk of birds and clouds kicks off Marysville series

1. Birds and clouds

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Home and Garden calendar for Snohomish County and beyond

Seattle Home Show 2: The fall version of the oldest and largest home show in the nation is…

Get schooled on Texas BBQ at this Monroe restaurant in a bus

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Get schooled on Texas BBQ at this Monroe restaurant in a bus

Brisket, pulled pork, sausage, chicken and the fixin’s all await you near the Reptile Zoo on U.S. 2.

Henry and Leanne Smiciklas run their barbecue food truck out of an old school bus on U.S. 2, a few miles east of Monroe. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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For Texas BBQ, look for the school bus at the reptile museum

This husband-and-wife team has been serving up brisket and more for a decade in Monroe.

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Wake up refreshed for a hike or to tour some cool old houses

1. Rest assured

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Outdoor classes and activities in and around Snohomish County

Clouds and birds: Maria Mudd Ruth, author of natural history books, kicks off this season’s Outdoor Adventure Speakers…

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Home and Garden calendar for Snohomish County and beyond

Big small talk: “Small is the New Big: 3 Big Rules (&4 small ones) for Designing Gardens” by…

Here’s what’s up at this flower-power house in Everett

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Here’s what’s up at this flower-power house in Everett

Herald reader Jim Zelmer called me about a house on Colby Avenue in Everett with a yard of…

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What’s your fancy? Button collections, gardening and the outdoors

1. Button fest

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Outdoor classes and activities in and around Snohomish County

Every Kid in a Park: Free entry into all federal parks, forests and recreation areas for a full…

Combat vet is Monroe VFW Post’s first female elected officer

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Combat vet is Monroe VFW Post’s first female elected officer

MONROE — She earns a living making eyes look pretty, but she’s still the same warrior inside.

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Home and Garden calendar for Snohomish County and beyond

Wildflower talk: Snohomish Garden Club meeting, 7 p.m. Sept. 11, Snohomish Senior Center, 506 Fourth St. Susie Egan…