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Harrowing to happy scenes, haunts are all set for Halloween

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Harrowing to happy scenes, haunts are all set for Halloween

To unnerve and delight trick-or-treaters, Everett neighborhoods go way beyond pumpkins on porches.

Relaxing on a comfortable couch near their living ficus tree, Bob and Jeanne Van Winkle share laughter while talking about their life in the furniture business. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Sweethearts and co-workers, Van Winkles closing their store

Building is sold, but furniture is still on sale at couple’s Hewitt Avenue shop in downtown Everett.

Danita Lott, 47, talks about the help and community she found at the Everett Recovery Cafe after struggling with addiction for decades. The cafe will host a fundraiser Nov. 9. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Dishing up more than soup, cafe helped addict find new life

Everett Recovery Cafe members to share their experiences at fundraiser aimed at renovating new site.

Onstage and off, Laura Shriner was the theater’s bright light

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Onstage and off, Laura Shriner was the theater’s bright light

Historic Everett Theatre manager’s wife died during Vegas trip. A popular actor, she ran box office.

Covenant Art Glass owners Stan and Colleen Price plan to retire at year’s end after being in business since 1979. Stan Price’s glass pieces will be on sale in November at their Everett shop. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Glass artist is saying goodbye, but first a whale of a sale

After 40 years running Covenant Art Glass, Stan and Colleen Price plan to retire in Wenatchee area.

Simulation education specialist Carrie Brood, of WSU’s medical school, holds a high-fidelity mannequin used for simulated patient care in the Range Health mobile unit displayed in Everett on Thursday. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Rolling clinic linked to WSU medical school comes to Everett

Range Health, a nonprofit, is supported by donation from Othello cattle rancher who died last year.

Public gender-neutral restrooms are open for business

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Public gender-neutral restrooms are open for business

With high-walled locking stalls, privacy is protected. And traditional options are still available.

Norwegian born artist Inger Hutton became a U.S. Citizen last month after living about three decades in Everett. She decided it was time she became a voter. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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After decades in Everett, it was time to be a U.S. citizen

Artist Inger Hutton, who once co-owned local farmers market, looks forward to casting her first vote.

Bothell’s Susan Zahler, 59, and her daughter Alicia Lochrie, 33, (right) survived the Las Vegas shooting rampage that killed 58 people at a country-music festival on Oct. 1, 2017. The women have struggled with the aftereffects of what they saw, heard and survived. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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‘Too many triggers’ bring back the horror of Vegas shootings

Bothell woman and daughter survived 2017 country-music festival rampage, but live with aftereffects.

Tim Knopf, 60, with his wife, Jackie, has lived in Everett since 1978. He recalled years of efforts by the late Drew Nielsen to bring a pedestrian bridge to the waterfront. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Wowed by footbridge, onlookers share memories of waterfront

Everett’s pedestrian span has been a dream for decades. Some recall when millworkers took the stairs.

A window in Saint Joseph’s House was made with pieces of broken glass and placed over the existing window by the clothing bank’s founder, Lenora Bruce. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Saint Joseph’s House has clothed people in need since 2006

Lenora Bruce, a single mother of six whose family was once helped, founded the Marysville nonprofit.

Everett’s LaVerne Bunney, who celebrated her 110th birthday with her big family in April, died Sept. 16. “What a good example she was,” her daughter said. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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In her 110 years, LaVerne Bunney ‘had an incredible life’

Born in North Dakota in 1909, Everett woman celebrated in April with generations of family members.

Everett Community College is introducing a new Trojan design as the college’s symbol of student spirit and athletics. The design incorporates the Feather Star, EvCC’s official logo, in the Trojan’s cape. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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New EvCC Trojan: The makeover incorporates symbol of rebirth

College keeps Feather Star, an image of sculpture that survived fatal ’87 fire, as its official logo.

A “Home of the Falcons” painting still graces the bricks high on a wall at one end of the Everett Y’s 1920s gym. Long ago, the Falcons were YMCA basketball teams. From left Gael Gebow, Kristy Kentch and Zac Jagow, all Y staff members, look down on the vintage gymnasium from a wooden running track. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Celebrate Y’s past, ghost or no ghost, and usher in future

Contents of 1920 YMCA time capsule to be revealed before walk from downtown to new building on Colby.

Folksingers Bob Nelson (left) and Bruce Baker perform Tuesday for residents of Sunrise View retirement community in Everett. Nelson and his wife, Judy, recently moved to Sunrise View. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Folk duo’s songs for the ages are a gift for Everett seniors

Bob Nelson, who created musical archive of coffeehouse era, now lives with his wife at Sunrise View.

Myrna Overstreet, a force behind the founding of the Imagine Children’s Museum, is shown here with some of her grandchildren and other kids at the museum’s 2004 opening. From left are Billy Burton, Matt Overstreet, Jake Burton and Caroline Overstreet, with their proud grandma behind Matt. Myrna Overstreet, 82, died Aug. 19. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Myrna Overstreet’s legacy: Imagine Children’s Museum and more

In a life devoted to family and community, she served long and well. Friends remember a caring spirit.

Arlington firefighter Aaron Boede, 30 (left), and acting Capt. Greg Koontz with a steel beam that was recovered from ground zero after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. A memorial display at Arlington’s Fire Station 46 is visible from the street and open to the public. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Firefighters help today’s kids understand the meaning of 9/11

In Arlington, students can see and touch a 13-foot steel beam recovered from the World Trade Center.

Vasheti Quiros, executive director of the Snohomish County Music Project, is more than pleased with the former Purdy & Walters with Cassidy Funeral Home facilities. The site on Everett’s Pacific Avenue is the nonprofit’s new home. Here, she shows a small room, circled by stained glass, used for drum circles and meditative activities. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Music therapy breathes life into former Everett funeral home

The Snohomish County Music Project moves downtown from what used to be a movie theater at the mall.

College banners hang from the ceiling in Johnathan Altermott’s math and AVID classroom at the newly built North Middle School. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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New North Middle School: ‘Kids in this community deserve it’

At last, there’s a modern and spacious campus for north Everett kids in sixth, seventh, eighth grades.

Payten Bisson, a fifth-grader at Presidents Elementary, helps deliver school supplies to classrooms at her school. For the fourth year in a row, the Arlington School Board approved providing basic school supplies for all students in the district. (Arlington School District photo)

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Arlington’s back-to-school gift: Basic supplies are provided

And in Everett, an A-plus Stuff the Bus drive collected items to fill more than 1,900 backpacks.