The Mavericks volleyball team won their Northwest 3A District Tournament semifinal match Monday night, beating Glacier Peak 3-1. Meadowdale dropped the first set, 23-25, but came back and won the next three, 27-25, 25-17 and 25-18. Payton Shrum had 39 assists and 11 digs and Lindsey Milner had 23 kills, 21 digs and four aces [...]
We asked Josh Premako to take his camera around Edmonds Monday to capture some Halloween memories, as thousands of children and their families enjoyed the annual festivities sponsored by the Edmonds Chamber of Commerce, the Just Frogs Amphibian Center and the Edmonds Museum.
By Harry Gatjens Chanterelle Restaurant hosted a Coffee with Harry with the two candidates for mayor last week. It was a cold and rainy day and we had a small crowd to visit with the candidates. Both candidates were ready to answer any question a citizen chose to ask. The first question was why each [...]
To the editor: We support Joan Bloom for a number of reasons. Just some of them: Joan is NOT political. She has Edmonds’ interest at heart–not her own. Joan is an open book and is not devious–a welcome change. Joan is honest and forthright–we can use more of those traits. Joan does NOT court special [...]
To the editor: I applaud all who choose to run and serve as elected officials in the City of Edmonds and across our nation. It’s certainly not work for the faint of heart. While I love living in Edmonds, we are confronted with serious issues that require vision, a strategic plan and clear priorities and [...]
In a follow-up to an issue that received public attention a year ago, the Edmonds City Council on Tuesday will hold a public hearing on a potential amendment to the City of Edmonds Comprehensive Plan map that would adjust boundaries of the Medical/Highway 99 Activity Center to remove existing single-family designated areas. According to City [...]
It’s playoff time for our local high school sports teams. Here’s the latest information on those who’ve qualified for state and what’s still in progress: Edmonds-Woodway Cross Country: Megan Alfi and Jack Griffing both qualified for the 4A State Cross Country meet, this Saturday, Nov. 5, in Pasco. Football: The football team will host a [...]
The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office is seeking public assistance in locating a robbery suspect who assaulted a store security guard at the Wal-Mart Store at 1400 164th St. S.W. in Lynnwood earlier this month. According to a Sheriff’s Office news release issued Monday, the suspect attempted to shoplift items from the store Oct. 17. When [...]
By Michael Schindler The president recently announced that all U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by year-end. To some this is great news – especially for families back home. To others, the news is a bit alarming and shows more like a political move. But the reality is, after nearly nine years since entering [...]
The Edmonds off-leash dog park has a new agility obstacle course, thanks to Boy Scouts from Troop 312. Kamiak High School junior Alex Young designed the obstacle course for his Eagle Scout project and his fellow scouts helped him install the course at the Off Leash Area Edmonds Park on Saturday. Young built three jumps, [...]
Dear Editor, Critical thinking isn’t meant to be comfortable; it’s meant to yield high quality actions and decisions. “Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” -Martin Luther King, Jr. [...]
The Edmonds Floretum Garden Club is hosting the second in a series of garden workshops this Saturday, Nov. 5 and the public is welcome to attend. Seattle artist April Richardson will teach about making paper with embedded seeds for paper gift tags, enclosures and ornaments just in time for the holidays. The workshop will be [...]
The Edmonds Arts Festival Foundation and the Edmonds Arts Commission are pleased to present oil bar paintings by K Robinson from Nov. 1 through Dec. 14 at the Frances Anderson Center. In the Display Case exhibit “Color of Light” the artist demonstrates a progressive study of how to express an idea using different formats and [...]
Diane Buckshnis has made an interesting attack against Bob Wilcox in her mailer to voters in the last few days. She says that “Bob Wilcox is All About Construction”. This causes me to wonder how she would have defined the late John Beck, one of the former owners of Beck’s Funeral Home and a highly [...]
Here’s a roundup of the Halloween-related events in or near Edmonds: 3-8 p.m. The Edmonds-based Just Frogs Foundation is hosting a Hoppy Hollo – Ween Be Green Fundraiser at the Just Frogs Toads Too Amphibian Center at 300 Admiral Way, Ste. 104. Kids can create crafts with recycled products and visit with frogs, toads, [...]
Dozens of dogs and their owners — many in Halloween costumes — enjoyed an afternoon at Firdale Village Sunday for the annual Firdale Furry Festival. Dog-friendly merchants were on hand to display their services, including Lynnwood-based Four Paw Sports Center, which set up an agility course in the parking lot. Another business owner, Julie Nealey, [...]
The Warriors stayed alive in the 4A District 1 playoffs Saturday with a 2-1 loser-out win over Arlington at Edmonds Stadium. Scoring for E-W were Savanah VanCitters in the 4th minute and Rylee Peterson at the 60-minute mark. Kiera Towell was in the goal for the Warriors, who are now 10-5-2 overall.
Story from our friends at Shoreline Area News By Victoria Rhoades, ND To say that Don Warner of Monsters, Moulage, and Mayhem does “Halloween Consultation,” is an understatement. The Edmonds man can deck someone out for Halloween – and do it really well! He can also do injury simulation for emergency preparedness drills, or do [...]
Jeweler Brian Comstock, along with the Seattle Alumnae Club of Pi Beta Phi, organized a month-long drive for new children’s books to be given to children in Washington state who have no books in their home. In true Edmonds community fashion, when the Edmonds Bookshop learned about the book drive, it discounted all books purchased [...]
By Quint Turner The Mavericks’ dominance over the Shorewood Thunderbirds in the regular season carried over to the district playoffs, as Emily Crichlow notched the only goals in a 2-0 win for Meadowdale Saturday. Goalkeeper Ashley Routh earned the shutout, as the Mavericks maintained possession for most of the game. The first half took off [...]
Edmonds Community College’s new multi-use turf field opens today and will be immediately put to use, as the women’s and men’s soccer teams host Skagit Valley College starting at 1:45 p.m. The new field, funded with associated student fees, will be used for intercollegiate sports — soccer, baseball, and softball — student recreation and intramural [...]
This is just a sample of the photos that Char Blankenship took during Friday night’s Wesco Championship game. To see more, visit the My Edmonds News Facebook page, where you’ll find information on ordering prints. Check out our game archive to listen to the entire game play-by-play, plus a half-time interview with Deb Anderson of [...]
Portions of this story came from our online news partner, The Seattle Times. You can see the complete Seattle Times story here. For three quarters, it looked like Edmonds-Woodway was on its way to becoming the Wesco League champions. Led by junior Desmond Young, who ran for 291 yards and three touchdowns on 24 carries, [...]
Here’s another in our ongoing series of profiles of Edmonds’ many Highway 99 businesses. By Allison Pascoe You might say that Rod Waters literally grew up at the Country Farms Produce Market on the corner of Highway 99 and 228th Street Southwest. The son of Jay Waters, who started Country Farms in Edmonds in 1960, [...]
By Lara Alexander In 2006, Seattle mom Corey Colwell-Lipson began thinking about a better, “greener” Halloween. The following year she pulled together some big names around the region – Whole Foods, Overlake Hospital and ParentMap magazine –to start “Green Halloween,” a revolution aimed at making Halloween a healthier treat for kids and the environment. Fast [...]
Snohomish County Fire District 1 responded to 320 calls the week of Oct. 20-26: 258 emergency medical aid calls, 26 motor vehicle collisions, 16 fires, 4 service calls, 3 natural gas leaks and 13 automatic fire alarms. The following calls were in or near Edmonds: Oct. 20 COLLISION: At 6:32 a.m., a two-car head-on collision [...]
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