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Many resources for veterans at Everett YMCA open house

Marine Corps veteran Dan Hults served in Vietnam in 1965 and ‘66. He has type 2 diabetes, one…

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Housing Hope program steers former at-risk teens in positive direction

Collette Brotton once slept on the streets, or anywhere she could. Today she lives at Housing Hope’s Village…

Jim Cuthill wrote the book, “Sawdust Empire,” about the Everett Massacre under the pen name J.D. Howard. The story tells of the shingle workers on strike, who used equipment very much like this shingle cutting machine on display at the Granite Falls Historical Museum.

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‘Sawdust Empire’ author brings own history to Everett’s story

Everett’s book.

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Teacher’s quick action helps save student who couldn’t breathe

Gavin Dreben was in English class at Everett’s Eisenhower Middle School. All of a sudden, he needed big…

A visitor to American Legion Memorial Park in Everett flies a Yuneec Q500+ Typhoon drone at the northwest corner of the bluff overlooking the Snohomish River delta on a recent, warm evening.

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Drones: What’s the future of their flight?

Ah, the end of a glorious spring day. The sun is setting, neighbors are out for walks, and…

Volunteers unload food from postal vehicles at the Lynnwood Post Office during the Letter Carriers Food Drive last May. United Way of Snohomish County will launch a new web page Monday that will make it easier for volunteers to find nonprofits needing help.

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United Way’s new website helps volunteers ‘get connected’

You have some time on your hands. Do you log in to Facebook to see what’s up? Do…

New Housing Hope board member, Kristina Jorgensen brings real-life perspective that is proving invaluable to the agency.

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New Housing Hope board member was homeless herself

Picture a member of a board of directors. The person might be a familiar face in business, or…

Mary Roach is the author of “Stiff,” “Gulp,” “Bonk,” “Packing for Mars” and other books blending science and humor.

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Science writer Mary Roach brings ‘wing-nut curiosity’ to Everett

Mary Roach calls her best-selling books a gateway drug for science.

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Program aims to restore rather than suspend troubled students

A kid gets in a fight at school or yells at a teacher. What happens next might be…

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‘The uncommon common man’: Dwayne Lane remembered

Tom Lane stood before an overflow crowd at his father’s funeral Mass. After all the prayers, songs and…

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Resource centers can help take desperation out of pregnancy concerns

Paula Andrews was there to help when the newborn cried.

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Woman’s wish to meet Pope Francis comes true

Addison Schmidt could have asked for anything. She could have traveled to Tahiti, chatted with a movie star,…

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Once homeless, Everett teen on a path to improve lives through politics

Charles Adkins makes no secret of his political leanings or ambitions. Even while living at Cocoon House, an…

Kevin Craft, Everett Community College instructor and longtime editor of Poetry Northwest, will lead a new book publishing venture as executive editor of Poetry NW Editions.

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Poetry Northwest to start promising new chapter

For six years, Everett Community College has housed a literary gem with a prestigious history. Poetry Northwest magazine,…

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Families and their political ‘oddballs’

On the most recent Super Tuesday, a snippet of a speech caught my attention. Ohio Gov. John Kasich…

Camp Silverton, a U.S. Forest Service property along the Mountain Loop Highway near Verlot, was used for decades by the Everett School District. The district no longer uses the outdoor camp, which has been closed since 2003.

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Madison Elementary bringing back 5th-grade camp experience

More than a field trip, outdoor education camp is a rite of passage. It’s an exciting entree to…

Volunteer Rebecca Staffel, known on-air as “D.J. Kitty,” does “The Sunlit Room” on Fridays at KSER.

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At 25, Everett’s KSER still entertains, informs community

Most 25-year-olds aren’t into 1930s swing music or rhythm &blues from the 1940s and ’50s. They likely haven’t…

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Doing the parking shuffle? It’ll cost you in downtown Everett

Rachael Bowker had business in downtown Everett.

Monte Cristo in 1894 with Wilman’s Peak in the background. In the late 1890s, prospectors staked gold and silver mine claims at Monte Cristo in east Snohomish County. Frederick Trump, the paternal grandfather of Donald Trump, ran a hotel and real estate office in Monte Cristo, and in 1896 he was elected the town’s justice of the peace.

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Trump’s grandfather won an election, too — in Monte Cristo

In 1896, the year William McKinley won the presidency, folks in the east Snohomish County mining town of…

Bob DeYoung with his wife, Julie, worked long days at the site and said the community would never be the same.

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Hero remembered for ‘bringing them home’ after Oso mudslide

Darrington’s Bob DeYoung was a family man, a former police officer, a logging company owner, a hunting guide…