My Everett News

Shout out to local poetry artists and advocates after word in from Everett Community College of a significant grant to Poetry Northwest. Here are the details. A $10,000 grant awarded to Poetry Northwest by the National Endowment for the Arts will support the literary journal’s new initiative to recognize, publish and celebrate the work of Indigenous writers. […]

At last Wednesday’s Everett City Council meeting Councilmember Scott Murphy expressed great concern over what he called broken promises from Sound Transit regarding Light Rail to Everett. Murphy cited a Motion passed back in 1994 under Sound Transit 2 that declared Light Rail to Everett was a priority. He provided this copy of the motion. […]

No fans in the stands but there will be players on the ice in Everett, Washington. Here’s more from the Everett Silvertips. The Everett Silvertips announced their training camp roster for the 2020-21 regular season, with 24 players scheduled to begin preparations for the upcoming season the week of Feb. 28 in downtown Everett. The […]

So there is was, running, sitting in the middle of Rucker Avenue with yellow lights flashing on top and a big City of Everett logo on the side. Apparently that was too much of a temptation for one man who jumped into the truck and headed south on Rucker. Everett Police converged on the area […]

This in from Snohomish PUD for buyers of electric-powered vehicles since the first of this year.  The electricity that Snohomish County PUD delivers to vehicles in Snohomish County and Camano Island is already nearly carbon-free. Now, thanks to a new offer, it can also be cost-free for select customers. Starting today, the PUD is offering […]

Here’s a short video clip of the wires down on College Avenue Tuesday night. Quite a light show Tuesday night as a transformer blew sending live wires down along the 4700 block of College Avenue in Everett. It all began around 7 PM with reports of that blown transformer. Everett Fire crews had to stand […]

Saw this posted on the Everett Police Facebook page and thought I’d pass it along here. Just before 11:00 p.m. on Sunday night, officers responded to reports of a vehicle hitting multiple cars in the parking lot of an apartment complex in the 9900 block of 12th Ave W. Additional reports indicated the vehicle exited […]

We’ve done several stories on the apartment complex planned for the spot occupied by the former Kmart at 8102 Evergreen Way. Today Excavators began tearing into the building which first went up in 1966. The store closed in 2014 and the main store building has been vacant ever since. For a time the spaces on […]

About twenty minutes after three o’clock Monday afternoon Everett Firefighters were called to the 500 block of Olympic Drive to a report of a vehicle on fire in a garage five feet from a home. First unit in found heavy smoke and flames coming from the garage. They were able to get a good knock-down […]

9:45 PM Initial report: Winds in Everett were in the 40 mile an hour range Sunday night. Madison was closed between Evergreen Way and Beverly Boulevard for wires down. About 1800 Snohomish PUD customers lost power around 9:30 PM.