My Everett News

$6.00? $7.00? $8.00? Right now patrons pay $11.00 at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego and Centerplate, the food vendor for that stadium, is considering bringing an all you can drink soda to Everett. In addition to running the concessions at Comcast Arena Everett, Centerplate also runs the concessions at Safeco Field and the Tacoma Dome. […]

First hired in February of 1995, Everett Police Chief Jim Scharf is set to retire at the end of March. He says first up is a lot of cooking dinner for his wife and a long honey do list. I asked him what prompted him to decide to retire and after some thought, he told […]

More celebration than work getting done at the Everett Boeing plant this morning as workers are setting up for a huge victory rally to celebrate the winning of the Air Force Tanker contract. Once the party is over though, they better get back to work, Boeing has to deliver 18 of the KC-46As to the […]

Lots of reaction coming from the folks in Everett, here’s a sample… Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson’s response to today’s tanker award announcement: Naturally, I am elated with the Air Force’s decision to award the tanker contract to The Boeing Company. It is reasonable to expect that tankers for the United States Air Force be built […]

AP, ABC, Bloomberg News and many others are reporting that Boeing has won the contract to build refueling tankers for the Air Force.

At yesterday’s Everett City Council meeting the vote was unanimous, (with Council Members Stonecipher and Gipson absent), to approve a half million dollar settlement with the family of Niles Meservey who was shot by Everett Police Officer Troy Meade in June 2009. Here’s the note I got from Everett public information director Kate Reardon about […]

As the Everett Local Census Office Manager it was my pleasure over the last year and a half to oversee the 3rd busiest Local Census Office (out of 494) in the United States. The Everett Local Census Office covered the area between the King-Snohomish County line and the Canadian border. Snohomish, Skagit, Whatcom, San Juan […]

Did you know that the City of Everett has an ordinance on the books that property owners are responsible for keeping the sidewalk in front of their places clean? That includes getting snow removed by Noon. No word on the punishment or whether it’s ever been enforced. I’ll try to find out.Chapter 13.08 SIDEWALK MAINTENANCE […]

Here’s a message from the Salvation Army in Everett Salvation Army Cold Weather Shelter Will Open Tuesday and Wednesday Nights Serving Everett and Central Snohomish County 2525 Rucker Avenue, Everett WA 98201 Due to the extreme conditions forecast for Tuesday (02/22) and Wednesday (02/23), the Salvation Army will open an Emergency Cold Weather Shelter at […]