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Monday marked the return of a little bit of normalcy at Kamiak and Mariner. For the first time since last March, the practice fields and gyms were buzzing with activity, as... — Updated 2/24/2021

Snohomish County Chair Stephanie Wright and Vice Chair Megan Dunn will be co-hosting a regional Town Hall Meeting regarding vaccines and vaccine distribution in Snohomish County on... — Updated 3/1/2021

Jonté Robinson is Sound Transit's new chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer. "Jonté has proven herself to be an influential voice on all aspects of civil rights, equity... — Updated 3/1/2021

Mukilteo City Councilmember Elisabeth Crawford has been appointed to the Washington State Board of Health by Gov. Jay Inslee. Crawford, a member of the Snohomish County Board of... — Updated 2/26/2021

More big changes are on the way for the Mukilteo waterfront. The Northwest Fisheries Science Center's Mukilteo Research Station has been shut down due to building safety concerns.... — Updated 3/2/2021

The Lynnwood Police provided this update on Samantha Lake: Samantha Lake has been located by the FBI in another county and is safe. Lake was found with a person known to her, and... — Updated 2/26/2021

Another variant of COVID-19 has hit, just past the borders of Snohomish County. B.1.351 variant of SARS-CoV-2 has been detected in King County. No cases of the new variant have... — Updated 2/25/2021

Former Mukilteo finance director Michelle Meyer has been named as Lynnwood's new finance director. The Lynnwood City Council unanimously approved Meyer's appointment by Lynnwood... — Updated 2/24/2021

The decision on whether to remove a temporary speed hump on Loveland Avenue, and replace it with a permanent speed hump came down to Mayor Jennifer Gregerson. With the City... — Updated 2/24/2021

Period poverty – let's talk about it. One in five teens in the U.S. have struggled to afford period products or were not able to purchase them at all. More than 4 in 5 students... — Updated 2/24/2021

Everyone’s parents have their own way of teaching us things. In my own case, I can remember some specific lessons and I can also remember things my friend’s parents taught... — Updated 2/24/2021

J. Kenji López-Alt is a chef and food writer, the author of the best-selling “The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science,” which was a New York Times bestseller and... — Updated 2/24/2021

It's hard to believe that we are now going on a year in the pandemic. A year where we have not been able to worship shoulder to shoulder, and elbow to elbow. No hanging out at the... — Updated 2/24/2021

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The new year is under way and we are certainly growing as a community. The trials of 2020 taught us all lessons, shed light into corners that need improvements, and brought us... — Updated 2/17/2021 Full story

It was Mark Cuban (of fame from his billion dollar wealth, his fame as a successful entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team) that was talking about... — Updated 2/17/2021

This month I need to take a break from what has become an overwhelming list of frustrations that have come with the new Mukilteo ferry terminal project. Over the past several... — Updated 2/17/2021

Edward Murphy was an aeronautical engineer and an Air Force captain in 1949, stationed at Muroc Air Field in the high desert of Southern California. Two years before, the late... — Updated 2/17/2021

Scholarships ranging from $2,000 to $3,000 will be awarded by the Cascade Symphony Orchestra to qualified high school senior music students from the Mukilteo, Edmonds, Northshore,... — Updated 3/2/2021

Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds has launched a youth Advisory Committee at Cascadia (YACC). Teens (8-12 graders) in Snohomish and King counties are invited to apply to be a part of... — Updated 3/1/2021

The equity policy formally adopted by the Mukilteo School Board in July 2017 and revised last March states: The primary responsibility of the Mukilteo School District is to ensure... — Updated 2/24/2021

The South Everett Mukilteo Rotary has named its Kamiak and Mariner Students of the Month for January and February. Mariner January Student of the Month – Thien Nguyen: Holds a... — Updated 2/24/2021

Mariner High School has named its Students of the Month for January. Mariner freshman Owen Williams Collins was nominated by his English teacher Ann Freemon. "Owen has been a real... — Updated 2/17/2021

Kamiak's Students of the Month are: freshman Ruben Gonzales, freshman Isaac Blinn, sophomore Chase Stafford, sophomore Karly Odegaard, junior Alexander Dreistadt, junior Soren... — Updated 2/17/2021

Edmonds College instructor Steve Hailey was elected as the 2021 president of the Digital Forensics Certification Board (DFCB), a professional organization that advances digital... — Updated 2/17/2021

Editor's note: Edmonds resident Tim Raetzloff, who writes the History Files column for the Beacon, was a contestant on a "Jeopardy!" episode that aired in January 1989. (His show... — Updated 2/24/2021

John Muir said, "I would rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than be in church thinking of the mountains." I could not agree more. In these days of confinement I miss the... — Updated 2/24/2021

The Cascade Symphony Orchestra (CSO) will present "Carmen," its fifth virtual concert of the 2020-21 season, at 7:30 p.m., Monday, March 8. This online music program, like all... — Updated 2/24/2021