Archive | September, 2014

Everett Hyundai Dealer Selling $70,000.00 Used Car

September 25, 2014

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Drive south on Evergreen Way and you can’t miss it. Right there in the revolving display case in front of Hyundai of Everett. Painted bright V.W. bug green. It’s not a Hyundai, but a 1937 Packard. Owner Gary Micallef says he picked up the car about 10 years ago at Hot August Nights in Reno, […]

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2 Long Awaited Everett Projects…Downtown Hotel, South End Chevy Dealership…Moving Forward

September 24, 2014

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Touchstone Development from Seattle has pulled their permits and opened a construction office in downtown Everett to begin work on a long-delayed Courtyard by Marriott hotel at the corner of Wall and Colby. Halvorson Construction Group in Kirkland has opened an office in downtown Everett and is on site. Financial challenges led the Everett City […]

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It’s The 30th Anniversary of The Everett Tire Fire

September 24, 2014

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30 years ago today a huge pile of tires on the site of the old Everett landfill began burning. The smoke from the fire could be seen for miles and the blaze burned for seven months. Today the site is set to become housing in what is being called the Riverfront Development. The good folks […]

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Morning Commute Time From Everett to Seattle Tops 2 Hours

September 24, 2014

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It was a nice summer but fall is here and so is the rain. Shortly after 8am the official travel time from Everett – Seattle was 140 minutes according to the Washington State Department of Transportation. It was 130 minutes from Everett to Bellevue. As a reminder you can keep up to date with our […]

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Everett Bomb Squad Detonates Suspicious Device at Silver Lake Park Trail

September 24, 2014

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Just before 9:00pm Tuesday night an Everett Park Ranger advised of a suspicious device on a walking path west of Silver Lake Park. Everett Patrol officers came out and confirmed the device appeared suspicious. The inter-agency bomb squad was called out and an Everett bomb technician and a tech from the Washington State Patrol examined […]

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Afternoon Rollover on North I-5 Snarling Everett Afternoon Commute

September 23, 2014

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The DOT Map shows that getting home this afternoon in Everett is not a pleasant task. Add the opening of the Snohomish River bridge on 529 for boat traffic and Everett is pretty much a parking lot…

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Truck Hits Pole in South Everett – 1400 Without Power

September 23, 2014

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UPDATE: Power was restored shortly before 9:00am. Just after 7:00am this morning a Fed Ex Semi was turning at the corner of 75th and Hardeson in southwest Everett when the rear trailer tipped sending a light pole into a PUD transformer. According to Neil Neroutsos of Snohomish PUD about 1400 customers were affected. Traffic lights […]

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City of Everett To Spend $66,400 to Study Fire Department Efficiencies

September 22, 2014

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At its meeting Wednesday night the Everett City Council will be asked to consider spending $66,400.00 to study the efficiencies of the Everett Fire Department. The study is part of Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson’s Budget Deficit Reduction Plan. The Fire Department is the first of three city agencies to be studied. When the plan was […]

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Do You See Everett, WA as The City of Everett Sees Everett?

September 21, 2014

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If you had to describe Everett to someone what would you say? Recently the City of Everett launched a “design a new logo contest” and here’s how the city described itself. Does your experience match the city’s description? Get to know us We are a community with a rich history of entrepreneurs, innovators, risk takers […]

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Everett Parents Alerted To Watch For Signs Of EV-D68 In Your Child

September 20, 2014

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The Snohomish Health District released this bulletin about a child from Snohomish County with a confirmed case of EV-D68. For privacy reasons, they will not say if the child was from Everett but Katie Curtis at the Health District did ask us to pass this along to our readers… The Centers for Disease Control and […]

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