Registration open for 25th Annual Whidbey Island Triathlon
WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. – Registration is now open for 25th annual Whidbey Island Triathlon. After a challenging year, where the annual event was converted to a Virtual Triathlon, the race director and triathlon committee are looking forward to welcoming our athletes back and hosting an in-person event. The Whidbey Island Triathlon, staged in the heart […]
Memorial Weekend at the Evergreen Speedway
Memorial Weekend is one of the most popular American holidays of the year, so we’re delighted to announce that Evergreen Speedway is holding a spectacular program of events to celebrate this year with racing on both Saturday, May 29 with the designated HCI STEEL BUILDINGS NASCAR Night while on Sunday, May 30 the highlight is […]
Pimp convicted in Everett sex trafficking case
Everett, Wash. – The Everett Police was part of a “John Sting” that led to an April 12 conviction of 32 year-old Bernard Gordon on four counts of promoting prostitution and leading organized crime. Support for the case was provided by Everett patrol officers, the Anti-Crime Team, the Snohomish County Drug Task Force, the King […]
Two Snohomish County sergeants strive to be an example of leadership
Snohomish County, Wash. – “Dynamite comes in small packages,” said Sergeant Chicara Chesney of the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office Corrections Bureau concerning certain stigmas that may exist about women in leadership in law enforcement and corrections, a male-dominated industry. Chesney was promoted May 4 to Sergeant after serving twelve years with the Department of Corrections. […]
The Everett Jets Football Club gear up for the EPLWA Playoffs
EVERETT, Wash. – The Everett Jets Football Club (FC) were defeated, 0-1, in their last game before their regular season opener against the Bellingham United Football Club on Saturday, May 22. Due to the pandemic, the team has pushed back their regular season, playing only exhibition matches, leading into a 2021 season with 3 wins, […]
Amtrak restores daily passenger service in Washington state
SEATTLE, Wash., May 26, 2021 – Yesterday, Representative Rick Larsen (WA-02) joined by Amtrak President Stephen Gardner and staff at the Seattle King’s Street Station, celebrated the restoration of daily passenger service for all Amtrak trains traveling through Washington State. One of these lines, the Empire Builder, connects Seattle to Everett. Prior to Larsen and […]
Future leaders being the change they want to be!
MUKILTEO, Wash., May 25, 2021 – The weekend of May 21-23, fourteen future leaders with Leadership Launch performed random acts of kindness throughout Everett and Mukilteo for their 2021 Community Launch Projects. The event this year consisted of high school students putting together a “LYLO & Link Challenge” to help and get help involving the […]
ORCA cards now free for youth riders
Beginning June 1, Puget Sound area youth (ages 6–18 years) will be able to get their first ORCA card at no charge (free). After loading a transit pass or E-purse balance, an ORCA card can be a young person’s ticket to easily reach destinations across the region on participating agencies’ buses, trains and ferries. “ORCA […]
B.V. Mays’ New Spy Thriller – CONTRACTOR – is Out!
LONDON, UK – April 29, 2021: Olympia Publishers announces the release of B.V. Mays’ new book, thriller and spy adventure, CONTRACTOR. Based on real events, this unusual post-Cold War adventure story is set in Poland and in Russia shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. Womaniser, Andy Gold, is an American living in Poland who has taken […]
Inslee approves $15M in Snohomish County requested projects
SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash., May 25, 2021 – On May 18, Governor Inslee signed the 2021 capital budget that approved Snohomish County requested capital projects worth $15,260,000. These projects will be used to support agriculture, natural resource protection, and flood mitigation throughout the county. “We are profoundly grateful to our legislative delegation and Governor Inslee for […]
