50 years ago (1954)
Workmen were completing the top floor of the paper department at Scott Paper Co. Scott also was clearing land on Norton Avenue for parking lots for the huge mill.
Louie Matheson Jr., an Explorer scout with Post 1 in Everett, was fulfilling a dream. Via Great Northern Railway, he was leaving for the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, where he would spend 36 days. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Matheson of 3612 Norton Ave.
25 years ago (1979)
Wooden pilings weakened by years of dampness gave way under the Kempel Variety Store on Main Street in Sultan, dropping the old building into an 8-foot hole. Susie Kempel and her sister-in-law, Dorothy Douglas, were in the building at the time but were not injured. Kempel said it felt like an earthquake.
Many in Darrington were up in arms about “Tarheels of the Northwest,” a recent public television broadcast. Residents including Douglas Jones and Mildred Reece felt that the 30-minute program portrayed them as a cliquish group of backwoods people.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at the Everett Public Library
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