Glen Olin, 83, in front of the last home he will ever build on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 in Everett, Washington. Olin retired “sort of” after more than 60 years of building homes. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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After 61 years building homes, Glen Olin is retiring, again

Olin, 83, built homes for regular people and those with gobs of money. His first house in Everett…

People wander around and photograph fields of tulips, daffodils and other flowers during the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival at RoozenGaarde in Mount Vernon, Washington, on Friday April 14, 2023. (Annie Barker / The Herald)

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Color your day at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival

The farms are in bloom this weekend. The festival, in its 41st year, runs through the month of…

Lily the hippo in Woodland Park Zoo's hippo habitat. (Dennis Dow/Woodland Park Zoo)

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Woodland Park Zoo’s ‘longtime favorite gal’ Lily the hippo has cancer

The 45-year-old hippo is in palliative care due to an inoperable malignant tumor in her mouth.

Powerball and Mega Millions tickets are $2 each. (Andrea Brown / The Herald)

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Lottery lists hot spots to buy tickets in Snohomish County

But it won’t increase your odds of winning Friday’s $1 billion Mega Millions jackpot.

Outside of the Four Corners housing complex along Evergreen Way on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024 in Everett, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Four Corners opens first building in 430-unit complex in Everett

An indoor pool, hot tub and 24-hour gym are among the perks. So is being 25 steps from…

Lily Gladstone and Josh Ryder in 2004 Mountlake Terrace High School yearbook photo as "Most Likely to Win an Oscar." (Submitted photo)

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Despite no Oscar, Mountlake Terrace still plans Lily Gladstone tribute

Voted “Most Likely to Win an Oscar” as a duo in high school, both Lily Gladstone and Josh…

Sydney Vo and Azul Rangel, juniors at Mariner High School, stand in the entrance hallway at Mariner on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, in Everett, Washington. The two have won the Congressional App Challenge in Washington’s Second District for the second year in a row, this time for the creation of HopeHorizon. (Ryan Berry / The Herald)

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Mariner High teens crack congressional coding contest — again

This is the second year in a row that an app by Sydney Vo and Azul Rangel won…

FILE - A man sits on a nearly empty Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. Tourists are traveling to Hawaii in larger numbers than officials anticipated, and many are wandering around Waikiki without masks, despite a statewide mandate to wear them in public. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, file)

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6 hours to Paradise: Jet-away on a direct flight from Everett to Honolulu

The flight from Paine Field makes for a relaxed departure and avoids the torture of traveling to SeaTac.

Publicity photo of Benson Boone. (Provided photo)

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Millions swoon over singer Benson Boone, Monroe High graduate

Boone, 21, will stop in Seattle in May on his world tour. His new song “Beautiful Things” hit…

Lily Gladstone arrives at the 96th Academy Awards Oscar nominees luncheon on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Gladstone is a 2004 Mountlake Terrace graduate. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

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Mountlake Terrace pulling for hometown star Lily Gladstone to win Oscar

Her Terrace high school classmates voted her “Most Likely to Win an Oscar” in 2004. A “Lily Gladstone…

A table setting inside the Grouchy Chef on Sunday, March 3, 2024 in Mukilteo, Washington.(Annie Barker / The Herald)

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Mukilteo’s one-of-a-kind Grouchy Chef is hanging up his apron

Takayuki Masumoto, “who absolutely brooks no nonsense from his patrons,” is looking for a buyer. Name not included.

Cousins Penny Leslie and Sidney Baker work together on a mural inside a jail cell at the Mukilteo Police Department on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024, in Mukilteo, Washington. (Ryan Berry / The Herald)

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No more staring at blank canvas in Mukilteo police holding cells

Bright murals now adorn the walls. The artwork is intended to calm and relax detainees.

A heart shaped hand tossed pepperoni pizza, left, and eight-corner Detroit style veggie pizza, right, from Jet’s Pizza on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, at the Everett Herald newsroom in Everett. (Annie Barker / The Herald)

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Detroit-original Jet’s Pizza lands in WA with thick-crust pies and more

The national chain’s Lynnwood joint is the first in the state. The pizza is tasty — hot or…

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Lynnwood woman who forgot about Hit 5 ticket ends up winning $135K

She tucked the ticket away for months. With the winnings, the master electrician paid off her debt.

Shirley Prouty (Submitted photo)

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Shirley Prouty, Arlington historian and grandma to all, dies at 92

Prouty chronicled “100 Years of Arlington” in a series of books. “She’d turn over any rock,” a former…

A group of friends hang out in a banya, a Russian sauna that is typically more humid and hotter than a traditional sauna, at Banya by fgm on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023 in Everett, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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At Banya, spa with 200-degree sauna in Everett, stress just melts away

A banya in Russian refers to a hot room or sauna. You can also plunge in the cold…

Ryan Carlson’s goose Bubba honks at cars outside his home on Monday Feb. 5, 2024 in Everett, Washington. (Annie Barker / The Herald)

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What’s honkin’ on this Everett thoroughfare? Have a gander

Henrietta and Betty, a goose duet, entertain passersby in the yard between Colby Avenue and Evergreen Way.

The soft room at the Mountlake Terrace Police Department on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, in Mountlake Terrace, Washington. (Ryan Berry / The Herald)

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‘A kinder, gentler interview room’ at Mountlake Terrace’s police station

Police nationwide are remodeling to create soothing rooms for interviews with victims of crime, like the new “soft…

Ocean-2 is a 200-foot prototype for a renewable energy capture buoy made by Panthalassa, an Oregon startup. (photo provided by Panthalassa)

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That mysterious floating object near Everett? It’s a prototype

Ocean-2 was created by Panthalassa, a renewable energy startup based in Portland, Oregon.

A group of friends hang out in a banya, a Russian sauna that is typically more humid and hotter than a traditional sauna, at Banya by fgm on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023 in Everett, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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At Banya, spa with 200-degree sauna in Everett, stress just melts away

A banya in Russian refers to a hot room or sauna. You can also plunge in the cold…