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‘A story worth telling’: Snohomish County did it before Woodstock

Local author J.D. Howard reminds readers of The Sky River Rock Festival, a forgotten music milestone.

Kevin Stevens, a resident of Three Rivers Mobile Home Park, talks about the damage his home endured due to flooding on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026 in Sultan, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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A month after the floods, residents try to return to normal

Recovery resources are available, including funds to replace damaged or lost items.

Half of a gym is used for physical education class while the other serves as a makeshift lunch station at the Sultan Elementary School on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024 in Sultan, Washington. Students have to walk to the gym to pick up food and then eat in their classrooms. (Annie Barker / The Herald)

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Feds investigate Sultan School District over trans athlete policy

The district was one of 18 in the U.S. named in a press release Wednesday. Sultan’s policy is…

People try to navigate their cars along a flooded road near US 2 on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, in Sultan, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Temporary flood assistance center to open in Sultan

Residents affected by December’s historic flooding can access multiple agencies and resources.

Cutting the ribbon to celebrate recent upgrades at the Sultan Wastewater Treatment Plant on Sept. 24. (Provided photo)

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Sultan celebrates new park and treatment plant upgrades

Two ribbon-cuttings occurred with the community and elected officials from the city, county and state.

Jen Vick, left, and her father Marc Vick, right, one of the co-owners of Vick’s Burger Shack stand in front of their business on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025 in Sultan, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Sultan rallies around owners after fire destroys Vick’s Burger Shack

The Aug. 8 blaze caused nearly $100K in damage at the popular Sultan restaurant and left seven people…

Curtson Distillery owners Robert Thompson, right, Malinda Curtis, center, and employee Sarah Trocano, left, at the distillery in Sultan. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Sultan’s Curtson Distillery turns bad beer into beautiful whiskey

Robert Thompson and Malinda Curtis use an innovative method to make moonshine and umber.

A view of the Shinglebolt Slough restoration project area on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024 in Sultan, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Skykomish River project aims to create salmon habitat, reduce flooding

The county project at Shinglebolt Slough hopes to collaborate with local property owners to restore former channels.

Students participate in P.E. class in the gym that also doubles as the cafeteria at Glenwood Elementary on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024 in Lake Stevens, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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School funding measures failing in Arlington, Lake Stevens and Sultan

Bonds in Lake Stevens and Sultan, as well as a levy in Arlington, were struggling based on initial…

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Deputies looking for suspect in Sultan shooting

Late Tuesday night, a man, 30, went to the Sultan police station with a gunshot wound. He said…

Traffic drives though the roundabout in east Sultan on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2018 in Sultan, Wa. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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New roundabout planned for US 2 through Sultan

A slew of projects next year will add safety features along U.S. 2, including a roundabout at Old…

Snohomish School District Transportation Supervisor Karl Hereth backs up the district’s one electric school bus Thursday, March 6, 2024, at the district bus depot in Snohomish, Washington. (Ryan Berry / The Herald)

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Sultan, Snohomish to get federal money for clean school buses

Local school districts are among more than 500 set to receive propane or electric buses, the White House…

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Lawsuit says Snohomish County deputies not justified in Sultan shooting

Two deputies repeatedly shot an unarmed Sultan man last year, body camera video shows. An internal investigation is…

Biologist Kyle Legare measures a salmon on a PUD smolt trap near Sportsman Park in Sultan, Washington on May 6, 2024. (Annie Barker / The Herald)

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Low Chinook runs endanger prime fishing rivers in Snohomish County

Even in pristine salmon habitat like the Sultan, Chinook numbers are down. Warm water and extreme weather are…

Emma Corbilla Doody and her husband, Don Doody, inside  their octagonal library at the center of their octagon home on Thursday, May 2, 2024 in Sultan, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Is this Sultan octagon the ugliest house in America?

Emma Corbilla Doody and Don Doody bought the home for $920,000 last year. Not long after, HGTV came…

Riley Wong, 7, shows his pen pal, Smudge, the picture he drew for her in addition to his letter at Pasado's Safe Haven on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021 in Monroe, Wa. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Snohomish County organization rescues neglected llamas in Yakima County

Pasado’s Safe Haven planned to provide ongoing medical care and rehabilitation to four llamas in its care at…

A 10mm round sits on a gate at an unsanctioned shooting put along Sultan Basin Road near Spada Lake on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, in Sultan, Washington. (Ryan Berry / The Herald)

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County pitches 640-acre shooting range near Sultan to skeptical neighbors

At a meeting this week, about 100 people voiced concerns about noise and more. Some questioned if it…

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Cocoon House advocate Morgan Huber (right) talks with teens gathered at the nonprofit's U-Turn drop-in center on Broadway in Everett on Tuesday, Dec. 13.

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Bipartisan bill aims to curb homelessness among young adults

Rep. Julio Cortes, D-Everett, and Rep. Carolyn Eslick, R-Sultan, want to fund temporary housing for those exiting treatment…

A large number off law enforcement are gathered at a Skykomish River water access on Ben Howard Road on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024, in Monroe, Washington. (Ryan Berry / The Herald)

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Sultan man charged with murdering ‘amazing woman,’ assaulting her friend

Kristopher Dillard shot Ashley Hozjan, 32, to death after her friend rejected his advances, according to new charges.

Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz announces that 2,000 acres of structurally complex state forestland are proposed to be set aside for conservation as funded by the Climate Commitment Act, Monday, Dec. 18, 2023 in Issaquah. The land will join the more than 900,000 acres of forestland that the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) already manages for conservation in western Washington. (Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times/TNS)

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WA sets aside 2,000 acres of forest for conservation, including in Sultan

An additional 70 acres, spanning a sensitive wetland along Marsh Creek north of Sultan, will be preserved.