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An emotional Mal Byron, 17, reacts with joy Thursday morning at Crossroads High School when she sees a picture of herself in a prom dress on teacher Tracy Orr’s phone. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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No money, no date, no problem at school’s first-ever prom

GRANITE FALLS — Joslyn Spradley became a mother last month. Andrew Anthony works as a mechanic. His girlfriend,…

Writer speaks about mom’s experience in Japanese internment camps

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Writer speaks about mom’s experience in Japanese internment camps

Mayumi Tsutakawa’s parents, both U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry, had vastly different experiences during World War II.

Marge Curtis and her husband owned Carousel Ranch, a horse-boarding facility, on property along Highway 9 near Brightwater. The property was sold to Snohomish County to be a 65-acre park. But Marge Curtis, now a widow, will continue to live there as part of a life estate agreement. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Former owner will live on land that’s set to become a park

Marge Curtis looks out over a gorgeous expanse of grassy land, a horse farm that slopes down to…

Terry McMillan, best-selling author of “Waiting to Exhale” and “How Stella Got Her Groove Back,” is scheduled to speak Tuesday at the YWCA Inspire Luncheon in Everett. (courtesy Terry McMillan)

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Best-selling author Terry McMillan says life, success take time

Terry McMillan has a message for young people, or any of us striving for a better life: It…

EvCC Clipper Editor Abby Tutor (left) and journalism instructor T. Andrew Wahl listen as librarianTeresa Jones responds to a question from the crowd Tuesday in the Henry M. Jackson Center’s Wilderness Room, which was packed for the panel discussion about fake news (Dan Bates / The Herald).

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EvCC panel discussions get real over fake news

We get our news primarily from social media. That assertion, by an Everett Community College journalism instructor, was…

Brothers Matthew Irish, 15 (left), and Noah, 11, follow their older brother, Jacob, 16, as they walk to their car from the baseball field at Lakewood Middle School on Thursday after games were canceled by lightning. Jacob, who was born with life-threatening Hurler syndrome, is playing on a baseball team for the first time. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Program allows children with disabilities to play baseball

Matthew Irish plays third base with Lakewood High School’s Cougars. Noah, his 11-year-old brother, is a second baseman…

When it comes to food banks, Postal Service delivers

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When it comes to food banks, Postal Service delivers

Circle May 13 on your calendar. Put a bag of food out that morning for pickup by your…

Bob Heirman, who died Saturday, was advocate for outdoors

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Bob Heirman, who died Saturday, was advocate for outdoors

SNOHOMISH — When members of the Snohomish Sportsmen’s Club recently planted 20,000 small coho salmon in area creeks,…

Annette Fitch-Brewer with her son, Isaac Curtis Brewer Jr., in the early 1900s. From 1906 to 1910, the woman from Ohio hid out in Lake Stevens after taking her little boy from a Cleveland hotel on Christmas Day 1905 against her wealthy ex-husband’s wishes. (Everett Public Library photo)

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Man plans road trip to the past in original Model T

Custody battles are nothing new, and from 1906 to 1910 Lake Stevens was the scene of a whopper.…

Young heart recipient ‘lived every day to the fullest’

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Young heart recipient ‘lived every day to the fullest’

Jacob Peterson had it all ahead of him. With a degree from Seattle University and a job lined…

A first-ever Everett Quilt Show is scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Xfinity Arena conference center. It’s presented by some extraordinarily talented quilters in the Marysville-based All in Stitches Quilt Guild. They met Tuesday at the Living Room Coffee House, bringing with them a few masterpieces. From left are Tammy Mohiswarnath, Grace Hawley, Becky Ray, Kathy McNeil, Cathryn Scott, Shawna Gould, Darlene McCourt, Vicki Hesseltine and Shirley Rock.

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Everett’s first-ever quilt show set to open this week

They’re part of a needlework tradition passed down through generations, but today’s quilters create contemporary art as well…

Cascade High School students from teacher Scott Loucks’ English class visited Canton Alley in Seattle’s International District recently after reading “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.” Jamie Ford’s novel is set in Seattle during World War II, when Japanese-Americans were sent to internment camps. (Everett School District photo)

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Cascade High students meet at corner of English and history

Those who don’t believe in time travel, or its value, have never met Atsushi Kiuchi, Jamie Ford or…

Focus is on kindness at annual Human Services Breakfast

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Focus is on kindness at annual Human Services Breakfast

It takes kindness, collaboration and money. Those are building blocks for a community that cares. Former Snohomish County…

Everett’s Doris Sinclair, 88, reflects on a chilling experience she had while traveling by train from Iran to Soviet Georgia in 1964. Detained by Soviet authorities, she was interrogated for three days before being allowed to continue with her trip. Sinclair and her husband, who was in the U.S. Air Force, lived in Iran from 1963 to 1968. In the foreground is a photo of several men in Iran, one of whom was her driver in those years. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Today’s political climate stokes woman’s chilling memories

After 53 years, Doris Sinclair hasn’t shaken her memories of barbed wire, dogs and Soviet interrogators, or of…

Along with their Madison Elementary School classmates, Jaedin Chum (left), Alfonso Moreno, Jaimy Moreno, Jaila Snowden, Daisy Padilla and Julissa Lopez are selling cookbooks with recipes from their teachers and parents to help pay their way to Camp Orkila on Orcas Island for fifth-grade outdoor camp. Jaimy Moreno, holding the cookbook (center), is tied with one other fifth-grader in sales thus far. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Madison fifth-graders selling cookbooks to raise money for camp

Fifth-grader Jaimy Moreno is learning door-to-door sales. With her teacher at Everett’s Madison Elementary School, Jaimy and her…

Snohomish gears up for annual Easter parade, bonnet contest

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Snohomish gears up for annual Easter parade, bonnet contest

In a stylish scene from the golden age of Hollywood, Judy Garland walks arm in arm with Fred…

Senior citizens hope to bridge generations with card game

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Senior citizens hope to bridge generations with card game

They’re competitive. They’re focused. They’re friends. And they’re putting out the welcome mat for more bridge players.

Firmly in the grip of his assistant, Kacey Walker, Stanwood’s Todd Duitsman, who has been paralyzed since a 2014 body surfing accident on Maui, stands up from his wheelchair and attempts a step forward Wednesday at the Marysville YMCA. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

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Kindness, courage endure 2 years after devastating accident

With a weight lifter’s grimace, Todd Duitsman focused on exercising his arms. Like most everyone else using the…

Oh, how we’ll miss our ‘conversations’ with Forum’s Judyrae

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Oh, how we’ll miss our ‘conversations’ with Forum’s Judyrae

Judyrae Kruse gave Herald readers so much more than homespun recipes. With the Forum, her longtime column, she…

Newlyweds Bob and Sue Banks pose for a picture while on a fishing trip to Little Fort, British Columbia, in the spring of 1968. Their boat is atop Bob’s 1967 Pontiac LeMans Sprint, which he bought two days after returning from serving with the Navy in the Vietnam War in April 1967. (Courtesy Bob and Sue Banks)

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Home from war 50 years ago, he met his love and bought a car

Bob Banks needn’t go far to see cherished reminders of April 1967. The Marysville man will mark several…