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Pedal power gets Everett family where they need to go

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Pedal power gets Everett family where they need to go

Sure, they have a minivan.

Art imitates light on this Edmonds street

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Art imitates light on this Edmonds street

EDMONDS — A colleague kept telling me about this weird runway of lights that cropped up on a…

Traveling roadshow is a 700-car happy traffic jam

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Traveling roadshow is a 700-car happy traffic jam

BOTHELL — Hundreds of cars are stuck bumper-to-bumper in multiple lanes.

Whimsy is what floats this man’s sailboat in Edmonds

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Whimsy is what floats this man’s sailboat in Edmonds

EDMONDS — The blue boat sticks out like a sore thumb on this dock of serious white sailboats.

Coffee is a Bigfoot hairy deal at this roadside Index stand

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Coffee is a Bigfoot hairy deal at this roadside Index stand

INDEX — No bodacious bikini baristas at this coffee stand.

Interior design meets virtual reality at Lowe’s

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Interior design meets virtual reality at Lowe’s

This is not your kid’s video game.

Artist shows love of all things Everett through sketches

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Artist shows love of all things Everett through sketches

She stands in the corner, yet she stands out.

Elizabeth Person sketches and paints slices of life things of Everett.

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Artist shows her love of all things Everett through cool sketches

She stands in the corner, yet she stands out.

Phil Gabler holds a rare pair of Brabanter chickens in the back yard of his Mukilteo home on June 8. Gabler recently put his home on the market and has insisted that the new owner must prove that they “love and desire to care for chickens.”

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Home in Mukilteo on the market … for chicken lovers

Must love chickens.

Jim Freeman shows off the caboose that he’s lived in for three decades on Whidbey Island. Freeman, 68, calls himself the Conductor of Fun.

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Meet Jim Freeman, Whidbey’s Conductor of Fun

WHIDBEY ISLAND — A portrait of Roy Rogers lords over the bed.

A truck passes by a pink “Love Letters Only” mailbox on Highway 525 on Whidbey Island near Greenbank. The pink mailbox is owned by Stacy Anderson, who lives down a lane off the highway. People don’t know who it belongs to but leave letters in the box on whatever they feel like expressing. She saves every letter.

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Whidbey Island mailbox specializes in love letters only

WHIDBEY ISLAND — I’m zipping along a rural stretch of Highway 525 toward Greenbank when, all of a…

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A dying request: ‘Please don’t vote for …’

The wild and crazy 2016 presidential race has expanded to a new territory: obituaries.

Co-owner Jon Ellis (left) looks at the new sign as his bar, formerly known as the YNot Sports Pub & Grub, reopened last week after a makeover in Everett. The TV show “Bar Rescue” transformed the bar and it is now called The Forbidden Pub.

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Hollywood comes to the ‘Rescue,’ renames Everett sports bar

Hollywood action struck Hewitt Avenue again.

Jacquelyn Dreyer, greeting us here from her front walkway in Everett, has faced serious difficulties of late, but the 73-year-old finds joy in creating her own brand of yard art.

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Everett woman creates a garden of wacky delights

It looks like a yard sale on steroids.

Garret Hunt (left), Tyler Chism and Kim Williams wear T-shirts with iconic Everett images that the trio collaborated on. They’re modeling their creations in front of the Muffler Man, one of the icons on the shirt.

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T-shirts pay homage to the icons of Everett

Take a city with 105,000 people.

Colorful lights illuminate downtown Everett’s new Broadway Bridge on Thursday. The lights change colors every few minutes and shine down on the sidewalk below.

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Colorful lights dress up Everett’s new Broadway Bridge

You’re driving across the Broadway Bridge at night and suddenly you’re in the middle of a light show.

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Everett budget appliance shop awash in wringers and comedy

They are old veterans, standing at attention.

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Giant cabbage earns Snohomish girl $1,000 savings bond

The average cabbage goes for about 99 cents a pound.

Samiu Bloomfield performs his patriotic sideshow from the sidewalk on Broadway in Everett, basking in the attention from motorists and foot traffic.

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Everett man patriotic, and not afraid to show it

Samiu Bloomfield lost his house to the bank. He lost his wife to illness. But he didn’t lose…

Sign on the door of Village Restaurant & Lounge in Marysville.

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Miniature horses welcome at Marysville restaurant and lounge

At first glance, the sign by the entrance of The Village Restaurant &Lounge doesn’t grab attention.