The Edmonds-Woodway boys’ basketball team started its 2011-12 season under new head coach Steve Call with a non-league jamboree at Chief Sealth High School in West Seattle Saturday afternoon. Look for a preseason interview with Call, plus more photos, in Sunday’s My Edmonds News. In addition, we’re proud to announce we will be carrying on [...]
It’s Small Business Saturday in Edmonds, a reminder to spend your dollars locally — not only today but every day. As of late Saturday morning, stores reported average to above-average sales, but business was expected to pick up prior to the 4:30 p.m. caroling and tree-lighting ceremony.
Edmonds singer LeRoy Bell was eliminated Thursday on the Fox TV singing competition, “X Factor,” our online news partner The Seattle Times reports. It was a double elimination night, and after the group Lakoda Rayne had been voted off, Bell was relegated to the bottom two of nine contestants, The Times said. He had to [...]
A pug from Edmonds is making quite a name for herself — all because she hates iPhones, or at least the commercials for them. A video featuring Coco, a 4 1/2-year-old black pug, has become a YouTube sensation with more than half a million followers, because her owner has captured her barking and growling at [...]
Did you know that when you shop in a locally-owned business, $73 of every $100 you spend stays in the community, compared to just $43 of every $100 spent in a business that is not locally owned? From Highway 99 to Five Corners to Firdale Village to Westgate to downtown Edmonds, here’s your chance to [...]
Local attorney Robert Wrixton Warren has more than 20 years of experience representing and helping personal injury and wrongful death victims. If you have been injured due to someone else’s negligence, you need an experienced attorney looking out for your interests and demanding the compensation you deserve. The sooner you can consult with an attorney [...]
The Corner Coffee Bar & Cafe in Perrinville is having a winter wine tasting, featuring live music with Mike Harline, from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2. Cost is $10 per person for five pours, and specialty appetizers will also be available for purchase. The restaurant is located at 18401 76th Ave. W.
The Phoenix Theatre will be holding open auditions for the fourth play of its season, “Thunderbolts & Dunderheads,” at the theater, 9673 Firdale Ave, Saturday, Dec. 3 at noon. You can find character bios and more information here.
You can watch Edmonds’ own Gothard Sisters when they appear on KOMO-TV, channel 4, Friday at 4 p.m. to promote their new album, “Story Girl,” which features ballads, Celtic-inspired fiddle and vocals that include guitar, bass, drums, taps, lower strings and percussion.
Edmonds-Woodway graduates from the classes of 2006 and 2007 Thursday morning once again carried on the tradition of gathering at the high school on Thanksgiving for a friendly game of football. Alumni from the two classes started the tradition in 2006 and it has continued every Thanksgiving morning since. On this particularly soggy Thanksgiving morning, [...]
By Quint Turner The first-ever Meadowdale Alumni Basketball Tournament was held Wednesday nigt at Meadowdale High School. Four teams from different Maverick eras competed (White, Columbia, Navy and Grey), with the White-jersey Maverick team coming out on top. Led by 2005 graduate Jake Linton and 2004 graduate LaRod Lover, the team had two dominating victories [...]
The holidays can get a little hectic, so Edmonds Center for the Arts gives you a few reasons to slow down and enjoy the season. Join the a capella ensemble Cantus as they retell a remarkable true holiday story with “All Is Calm,” Thursday Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m., while modern-day swing traditionalists Big Bad [...]
The Washington State Patrol reminds drivers that Thanksgiving is traditionally one of the busier holiday periods of the year and that increases the traffic volume on our roads. With the volume also goes an increase in the chance for you to be involved in a traffic collision, and that is why WSP troopers will be [...]
My Edmonds News is pleased to welcome new sponsor Goodwill, which is opening its newest retail store at 10117 Edmonds Way at 9 a.m. Dec. 1. The 16,700-square-foot Edmonds store will be the 21st for Seattle Goodwill, which has 20 retail stores and 10 Job Training Centers throughout the North Puget Sound. While the store [...]
For those of you with last-minute shopping to do on Thanksgiving Day, there are many grocery stores staying open to sell that much needed stick of butter. TOP Food on 220th Street Southwest will be open regular hours until 1 a.m. Petosa’s Family Grocer at 550 5th Ave. S. will be open 8 a.m. to [...]
By Harry Gatjens The Edmonds City Council approved the 2012 Budget Tuesday evening. It was a balanced budget, but only because the council made unrealistic amendments to it. The original budget was well-prepared by Mayor Cooper and his staff. It showed a $42,000 surplus at the end of 2012 but was accomplished by trimming every [...]
Updated by Sound Transit at 12:30 p.m. to include new street location for charter buses Sound Transit reports that it has canceled its Northline Sounder service between Seattle and Everett Wednesday evening due to mudslides. Seattle-to-Edmonds commuters can board charter buses at 4th Avenue South and South Jackson Street at 4:05 p.m. and 5:35 p.m. [...]
Edmonds residents are invited to make the season brighter for someone in need by participating in one of two city-sponsored Giving Trees — one located at the Frances Anderson Center, 700 Main St., and the other at City Hall, 121 5th Ave. N. Tags are provided by the Volunteers of America. Stop by one of [...]
The Rodgers & Hammerstein musical classic, “The King and I,” is the latest presentation by the Driftwood Players, showing at the Wade James Theater starting this Friday, Nov. 25-Dec. 18. Directed by Alan Wilkie, show times are Thurdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. “The King and I” pits East [...]
The Edmonds City Council on Tuesday night approved a 2012 budget of just under $33 million, and in the process slashed a $165,000 contingency fund and the $110,000 Human Resources Director position left vacant when Mayor Mike Cooper fired HR Director Debi Humann in September. With the $265,000 in savings, the approved $32,981,227 budget included [...]
A certified nursing assistant and owner of an adult family home in Edmonds had his credentials to practice suspended Monday after allegedly having sexual contact with a 62-year-old female resident in his care last summer. The Washington State Department of Health said Monday that Thomas Perez Orate and his wife were the owners and sole [...]
Election results won’t be officially certified until Nov. 29, but the City of Edmonds has scheduled a swearing-in ceremony at 4 p.m. that day for Mayor-elect Dave Earling and City Council members-elect Diane Buckshnis and Lora Petso. The ceremony will take place in the Edmonds Plaza Room located above the Library at 650 Main St. [...]
New energy, new guest artists and new choreography are on tap when Edmonds’ Olympic Ballet Theatre opens the 2011 season of “The Nutcracker” Sunday, Dec. 4 in Arlington. Three performances are scheduled in Edmonds Dec. 17-18. Olympic Ballet Theatre’s “The Nutcracker” has been a family favorite in Puget Sound for 30 years, but has been [...]
Seattle Goodwill is busy preparing the space that will house their newest retail store in Edmonds. Located at 10117 Edmonds Way, the 16,700-square-foot store will be the 21st store for Seattle Goodwill, which has 20 retail stores and 10 Job Training Centers throughout the North Puget Sound. The new Edmonds location will create employment opportunities [...]
Editor, During the past American Education Week we should also pay tribute to the fine unheralded group of paraeducators in the Edmonds School District. They assist teachers in the classroom helping students learn, supervise playgrounds during recess and perform crossing guard duty in all types of weather and dangerous road conditions all to help keep the [...]
Includes update from Edmonds Public Works: If you lost power in Edmonds overnight, you weren’t alone. Snohomish County Public Utility District spokeswoman Julee Cunningham said that high winds knocked out three PUD substations across their system, resulting in brief outages to about 7,000 customers. Now PUD crews are working on the approximately 200 customers who [...]
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