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The City of Everett is inviting the public to a community meeting Tuesday night to address what has been done over the last two years to address homelessness and related issues in Everett. Here’s the invitiation… Mayor Ray Stephanson and the Community Streets Initiative task force invite the community to join them for a free […]

Progress continues on efforts by the Everett Community Streets Initiative Task Force to address problems on the city’s streets. Today Everett Police introduced their first-ever embedded social worker to the Everett City Council. Lauren Rainbow began work on August 10th and is based out of the Everett Police north precinct and reports to north administrative […]

One of the recommendations of the Everett Community Street Initiative Task Force was for a place where people released from jail would be able to immediately get services and assistance before going back out onto the streets. Snohomish County just announced that the State has approved funding to remodel the Carnegie Library just west of […]

We told you last year about an agreement between the City of Everett and Yakima County to use the jail in Yakima to help defray costs of housing prisoners convicted of crimes in Everett. At the time the plan was to use the Yakima County jail for prisoners who were sentenced to longer terms in […]

Editor’s Update March 26th 10:45am: The City of Everett has advised the location of the meeting has been changed to the Weyerhaeuser Room at the Everett Station, 3201 Smith Avenue. The public is invited to get an update next week on progress made, and further work to do, by the Community Streets Task Force appointed […]

At the Wednesday Everett City Council Meeting Sylvia Anderson, CEO of the Everett Gospel Mission told the council about efforts to clean up the area north of the mission using an “outreach”, “nudge” and “push” tactic in dealing with the group of people who have been staying under the overpass. She mentioned the success in […]

Tonight the Everett Community Streets Initiative made its report to the Everett City Council. The co-chairs of the task force, Chris Adams and Sylvia Anderson, pulled no punches telling the city council that this is not a report that can sit on a shelf but comes with specific recommendations that need to be implemented. Sylvia […]

At least a half dozen times a day the MyEverettNews.com police and fire scanner crackles with the message. “Person down, not checked on.” Police officers and firefighters are then dispatched to find a person lying on the sidewalk, in a doorway or even on the street. Most times the people are physically fine but sleeping […]