50 years ago (1957)
PUD officials were opening the new $46,000 Halls Lake service headquarters this week. The building would provide housing for service crews and their equipment and a business office to serve customers east of Highway 99 in south Snohomish County.
Ernest Walker accepted the presidential gavel from retiring president Robert Johnson during the installation ceremonies of the Lake Stickney Community Club. Other new officers were Earl Smith, Samme Lindsay, Margaret Smith and Delmar Jones.
25 years ago (1982)
Joan Swift, an Edmonds poet whose work had been published in The New Yorker and The Atlantic, in addition to scores of small press books and literary magazines, was now being honored by the National Endowment of the Arts, which sent her a check for a creative writing fellowship.
An Edmonds noise ordinance was not vague or unconstitutional and a lower court decision striking the law down should be overturned, Seth Dawson, assistant Everett city attorney, told an appeals court.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at the Everett Public Library
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