Dinner and a show are back on the menu, according to Edmonds resident Elizabeth Galafa, who is doing her best to return to a normal life after a year...
While COVID-19’s devastating toll has taken center stage over the past year, another health crisis has quietly raged on.
Nationally, opioid overdoses have accelerated amid the pandemic’s daily life disruptions....
Edmonds resident Peter Zyniewicz received his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine last week, a milestone of hope after witnessing so much tragedy.
“It’s a little like when you’re younger...
“It’s like having teenage emotions all over again,” laughed Chris Dufore, recounting how he and his business partners are trying to keep their brewery going in spite of coronavirus...
Musician Marina Christopher had her 2020 all planned. In January, she was in New York City playing bass with a touring group. She had other stops scheduled and was ready...
After seven months of offering free fitness classes around Edmonds, Gina Drake opened Barre3, a boutique fitness studio, in early March.
Drake and her team had worked tirelessly to convert...
Making music in the time of COVID has called for inordinate creativity. Social distancing restrictions have made life especially difficult for performing artists whose life work—and livelihoods—normally depend on...
Long before the pandemic grew the ranks of the germaphobes, Edmonds resident Christine Cossu was meticulous about cleanliness.
Film production coworkers knew Cossu as someone who always had disinfectant wipes...
With social distancing and restrictions on large gatherings, birthday celebrations have been looking a little different in the time of coronavirus. So when longtime Edmonds resident Bill Loughrin turned...
When she was 15, Nhu Nguyen came with her family to the Northwest from Vietnam, settling first in South Seattle then moving to Edmonds, where she attended Edmonds-Woodway High...
How do you keep moving your business or organization forward when the going gets tough?
Five local managers from a range of organizations came together Tuesday for a one-hour webinar...
The coronavirus pandemic has altered many people’s events and planning. For long-time Edmonds resident Susie Schaefer, it meant that the recent celebration of her 80th birthday, with more than...
When Edmonds resident Cordy Harris got furloughed from her movie theater job in March, she worried about providing food for her young family -- and diapers for her infant.
At...
Melissa Crowe’s great grandparents got married in Montana on July 14, 1917, the same year the United States entered World War I. Amid the backdrop of World War II,...
While Edmonds’ beauty businesses are eager to restart services, it isn’t as simple as hanging an “open” sign on the door.
Amid the COVID-19 reality, there’s a long list of...
On a recent afternoon, Edmonds resident Leah Bernstein drove down to a Seattle parking garage, where health care workers donned in personal protective gear drew her blood from a...
Artist Cheryl King was just about to launch a new clothing line featuring her paintings of wildlife, “and then the lockdown hit,” she said, adding a bit ruefully, “at...
Edmonds resident Makayla Jones had planned to deliver her sixth baby -- like all her other children -- in a hospital setting.
But then a worldwide pandemic changed everything.
As hospitals...
As Jimmy and Stephanie MacDonald watched the news of the coronavirus pandemic unfold, they were struck by the shortage of lifesaving personal protective equipment for health care workers.
“We were...
“It just totally made my week; it was amazing,” said Edmonds Bookshop owner Mary Kay Sneeringer about a call and email from Carol Doig, widow of Ivan Doig, long-time...
