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Judy Gobin cheers after her woven cedar mortarboards are given to graduates at a banquet at the Tulalip Resort Casino on Monday. The cedar graduation hats were made by Judy Gobin and her daughter, Toni Jo Gobin, for graduating seniors and college grads from the Tulalip Tribes.

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Cedar mortarboards are given to 105 tribal member graduates

TULALIP — Jordan Jira, who graduated from Lakewood High School Friday, is headed to Central Washington University to…

Laura Zalesky, who with her husband, Phil Zalesky, was a champion of wilderness protection, died last month in Everett. The couple pushed for creation of the Glacier Peak Wilderness and North Cascades National Park. Phil Zalesky died in 2013.

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Laura Zalesky was private face of park land preservation

Laura Zalesky felt more at home watching birds in the woods than she ever did in an environmental…

More than 100 years’ worth of Everett High School’s “Nesika” yearbooks are now published online through a partnership between the school and Everett Public Library.

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Oklahoma prisoners’ project digitizes Everett High yearbooks

Open the blue-suede cover of the 1909 “Nesika,” Everett High School’s yearbook. Inside the 160-page volume is a…

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Little Haven’s born healthy as her mom battles cancer

Her name is Haven, and to her parents she is exactly that.

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Principal to take over as president of Archbishop Murphy High School

Houston Schmutz is one of 142 seniors ready to graduate tonight from Archbishop Murphy High School. He is…

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YMCA center on Casino Road gets new name

The name wasn’t inaccurate, just incomplete. Kids aren’t the only ones finding help and an inviting community at…

Air Force Maj. Wesley Schierman spent nearly eight years in North Vietnam’s prisoner of war camps. A retired airline pilot, the 78-year-old Schierman died in Everett in 2014.

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Simple silver bracelet linked Americans with imprisoned countrymen

It was the early 1970s. The Vietnam War raged on, claiming tens of thousands of American lives and…

Rita Jozefczyk, 88, dances with her husband, Stan, 83, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2100 hall in Everett on Wednesday. They are regulars on the VFW dance floor, where the Eddy Fukano Band performs vintage favorites at VFW dances 7-10 p.m. every Wednesday.

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Rita Jozefczyk, 88, thinks back to the sacrifices made during WWII

EVERETT — Rita Jozefczyk is drawn to another time. Going through old photographs, she drifts back nearly 75…

Curt Smith, a volunteer with EvCC’s Literacy Program, shares in a lighter moment while tutoring Sepideh Khazeei on Tuesday in Rainier Hall on the campus of Everett Community College.

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Providing the power of literacy; volunteers sought for EvCC program

Sepideh Khazeei was hard at work on a writing assignment. She had no problem with the essay topic,…

Sisters, Marilyn Quincy, 72 (left) Mary Barrett, 55, and Georgina “Genie” Paul, 69, are great-granddaughters of William P. Stewart. The state Department of Transportation is renaming Highway 99 in honor of Stewart, an African-American Civil War veteran who settled in Snohomish. Stewart, who died in 1907, is buried at the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Cemetery in Snohomish.

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Highway 99 renamed in honor of Snohomish settler William P. Stewart

Three sisters gathered at Georgina Paul’s Everett home Thursday to talk about a man they never met. They…

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A helping of pancakes can help mend Emma’s heart

At just over 3 months old, Emma Large is way too young to try pancakes. Her family, though,…

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Churches show support, reach out to mosque leader

It’s been the target of anti-Islamic fliers and anonymously mailed postcards, but a planned mosque in Mukilteo is…

A picture of Teresa “Flying Eagle” Baird and her late husband, Bill, taken when they were younger, sits between doves on a shelf in Teresa’s home.

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Granite Falls woman develops a retreat for veterans on her property

The clamor of power saws, a generator and sledgehammers rang out Friday in the forest near Granite Falls.…

Tim Aalbu

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Everett native’s book a humorous look at a simpler time

When Everett native Tim Aalbu left for Arizona in 2003, boyhood memories of his hometown went with him.…

Trina Songstad, 53, recently connected with her birth mother, a California woman who gave her up for adoption in 1962.

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Secrets and questions: Daughter, birth mother find each other

Trina Songstad was born July 17, 1962, at Seattle’s Swedish Hospital. Her mother never saw her.

Former NFL wide receiver Trent Shelton talks during a Hope Soldiers rally April 15, 2015, at Mariner High School. The theme of this year’s event, Friday at Mariner, is called “The Revival.” Shelton and Lauren Davis, who helped pass a state law helping families affected by addiction, will speak.

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Hope Soldiers’ goal: Help revive those saddled with addiction, depression

Lindsey Greinke acted to help others get off the addiction road she once walked.

Fellow Girl Scout Daisies react when Payton Camacho’s whip cream pie toss lands right on troop leader Tina Fish’s face Thursday night in the parking lot outside New Life Church in Everett.

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No cream puffs behind these whipped cream pies

So sweet, so well behaved, members of Girl Scout Daisies Troop 43244 presented the American flag. With hands…

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Herald says farewell to leader of newsroom family

Last month I marked my 35th anniversary at The Herald. This column isn’t my goodbye — not yet.

Chased by her friend and neighbor, Layla Taylor (left), 11, Amberle Peterson, 10, and her brother, Noah, 4, fly through the air on a zipline as their mom, Brandy Peterson, watches Monday at Henry M. Jackson Park, a few blocks from their homes in Everett.

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Upgrades bring much more to Jackson Park in Everett

Mariah Redhage lives in an apartment in northeast Everett. Now, just a quick walk from home, she and…

At home in Everett, Ed and Betty Morrow, both 81, enjoy the company of some of Ed’s lifelike creations last week. The Morrows were honored by the Everett Museum of History for long-time community involvement, plus their efforts to establish a much-needed museum in Everett.

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Ed and Betty Morrow anchor efforts to preserve Everett history

Ed and Betty, thank you.