Mukilteo Beacon - Your Hometown News Source

 — Updated 9/24/2021

 — Updated 9/24/2021

We are rapidly closing in on the general election in November. In odd-numbered years, people don't always pay as much attention to local races as they do in even-numbered years.... — Updated 9/24/2021

This endorsement is for Peter Zieve for Mukilteo City Council Position #1. I can't think of anyone that would represent our city better than Peter. Peter sent a postcard to all... — Updated 9/24/2021

I know a writer who likes to capitalize certain words or phrases, as if they were proper nouns. It’s really none of my business, but I can’t help noticing. He’ll write, “My... — Updated 9/24/2021

No, it was not a ballpark. It was a wooded retreat area that had picnic tables and small log cabins for rent. Developed in the early 1900s by Hazen and Luella Ball, it was located... — Updated 9/24/2021

In my interactions with fellow Mukilteo residents, whether it is at Lighthouse Park, the gulch, the grocery store, or at one of our many memorable restaurants, I have found a... — Updated 9/23/2021

I am a long time resident of Mukilteo, approximately 30 years. I am writing to you to highlight what I believe to be important to my fellow neighbors. I have gone door to door... — Updated 9/23/2021

Last week my daughter asked me, "What do you remember about 9/11?" She said it was an assignment for school and wanted to ask the people in our family who were alive at that time,... — Updated 9/22/2021

As we approach fall, your City's Public Works Department is busy preparing to handle the thousands of leaves that will fall on City streets. If left unattended these leaves risk... — Updated 9/22/2021

In the U.S. and much of Western society, we being faced with life-changing decisions thrust upon us by small groups of vocal, dissident people who wish to change our Constitutional... — Updated 9/19/2021

In 2016, Peter Zieve mailed an anonymous post ard to the residents of Mukilteo warning residents of the dangers that would happen if Muslim residents of the city were allowed to... — Updated 9/17/2021

I am writing in support of Peter Zieve for City Council. Peter has the intelligence, experience, and background we need. He has raised his family here and is dedicated to keeping... — Updated 9/17/2021

I am going to vote to re-elect Joe Marine for mayor of Mukilteo because when he was mayor, he: 1. Rebuilt Rosehill School and built City Hall. 2. Acquired the requisite acreage to... — Updated 9/16/2021

This month we round the corner on so much in our lives and around the world. We remember 20 years ago 9/11 and the horrors of that day, while we also remember the amazing unity of... — Updated 9/16/2021

Dear readers, We wrapped up our August Subscriber Appreciation Month with many new readers as well as existing subscribers who signed up for another year, even months before their... — Updated 9/16/2021

I wrote a column a while back about having dinner with old friends. It was a jokey piece about accepting certain limitations of aging, and the headline was “Navigating the last... — Updated 9/15/2021

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.” – Abraham Lincoln We just... — Updated 9/15/2021

How dare the government of the free take my parental rights away, such as making me send my daughter to school to be brainwashed that she is equal to my son? How dare the... — Updated 9/15/2021

ted for Louis Harris to retain his Mukilteo Council seat – Position 1.  He has proven (in his short time on the council), that he is a man with integrity and ethics who will... — Updated 9/10/2021

According to his signs, it seems Peter Zieve doesn't realize that Mukilteo is not a small town. Typically a town that reaches between 20,000 and 30,000 is considered a small city.... — Updated 9/10/2021

I must register my agreement with Beth Lewis' letter (https://bit.ly/3ndzfdT – Who is the mayor of Mukilteo? Mukilteo Beacon, Sept. 1, 2021). A reading of the definition of... — Updated 9/10/2021

Judy Schwab shows up. My kids know Judy as the Cookie Lady, because during sign waving for the 2020 Mukilteo School District bond she drove around to all the intersections,... — Updated 9/9/2021

I was 20 in 1978, a year I would have recalled as pretty unremarkable until I actually looked it up. Stuff happens every year. It was the year of the Camp David accords between... — Updated 9/8/2021

Editor's note: The following is a letter by a Whidbey Island resident that was sent to Washington State Ferries and state legislators about issues related to the Mukilteo Ferry... — Updated 9/8/2021