Posted: April 13, 2025
My Edmonds News

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Posted: April 13, 2025
My Edmonds News
On Saturday, April 12th, Megan Moran from Sound Salmon Solutions and Joe Scordino released several thousand Coho fry with the help of volunteers and local residents. These “baby” salmon were released in Yost Park near Olympic Avenue and near Holy Rosary parish in Edmonds.
It was great fun.
Here are a few photos:
Posted Sunday, April 13, 2025
By Joe Scordino, Stream Team Project Leader
A large crowd gathered at Yost Park to help release several salmon at a time. They used clear cups so everyone could see the baby salmon. (Photo courtesy Joe Scordino)
Continue reading “Yost Park: Volunteers help save Shell Creek salmon”by Joe Scordino
April 7th, 2025
Posted: April 3, 2025
By Chelsea Rudd
Edmonds
Link to My Edmonds News Article
Editor:
At Tuesday’s city council meeting, 250 Edmonds residents filled the chambers, with over 60 pleading with the council to remove Hummingbird Hill Park and Frances Anderson Center from consideration for rezoning, sale and commercial development. However, the next day it was reported by King 5, “Multiple city leaders say the public is misinformed.”
Continue reading “Letter to the editor: Hummingbird Hill Park supporters not ‘misinformed’”After a two-and-a-half hour public comment session, the council tabled its votes for the two comprehensive plan amendments.
By Jenna Peterson
Wednesday, April 2
Link to Everett Herald Article
Richie Gabriel, 1, jumps off the bottom of the slide as Matthew Gabriel looks down at him from the play structure at Hummingbird Hill Park on Monday, March 31, 2025, in Edmonds, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)
Continue reading “Edmonds residents show up for Hummingbird Hill Park, Frances Anderson Center”by Teresa Wippel
Posted: April 2, 2025
Link to My Edmonds News Article
An estimated crowd of 250 people packed the Edmonds City Council chambers Tuesday, spilling out into the foyer. Some were fearful that a cherished neighborhood park and community center could eventually be sold to help offset the City of Edmonds’ $20 million budget deficit. Still others mourned the removal of a historic 100-foot redwood tree. And yet another group expressed concerns about how future zoning changes could impact their neighborhood.
Continue reading “Parks, trees, zoning: 250 fill Edmonds Council chambers Tuesday to have their say”The examiner revoked the city’s Determination of Non-Significance, forcing Edmonds to address infrastructure issues on the creek
By by Eliza Aronson
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Link to Everett Herald article
EDMONDS — The city of Edmonds has work to do on Perrinville Creek.
On Friday, City Hearing Examiner Phil Olbrechts decided city staff must address safety issues about a corroded pipe that connects the last few hundred feet of stream to Puget Sound, and consequently restore fish passage along the lower portion of the creek.
Continue reading “Edmonds Hearing Examiner decides on Perrinville Creek saga”Posted: March 30, 2025
Link to My Edmonds News Article
The Edmonds City Council is scheduled at its Tuesday, April 1 business meeting to review its priorities for 2025 Comprehensive Plan amendments and vote on which ones to pursue for further study.
Continue reading “Council April 1 set to review priorities for Comprehensive Plan amendments”By William Alexander
March 30, 2025
My Edmonds News
Editor’s note: This letter to Mayor Mike Rosen is being republished here at the author’s request. We did ask the city last week if they had a response but so far have not received one.
Dear Mayor Rosen:
Continue reading “Letter to the editor: A request to continue Edmonds Marsh work”March 28, 2025 at 6:00 am
By Amanda Zhou
Seattle Times staff reporter
For decades, toxic tire dust has choked coho salmon before they can spawn in their natal streams. Now, King County scientists say they have made a “potential breakthrough” in how to save them.
by Nick Ng
Posted: March 27, 2025
Link to My Edmonds News Article
Speeding, unsafe sidewalks and lack of crosswalks along 100th Avenue West were some of the concerns Edmonds residents voiced during the first day of the Edmonds Walk & Talk tour Thursday morning at the Westgate neighborhood center.
Continue reading “Walk & Talk tours begin — starting with Westgate neighborhood center”By Joe Scordino
For the Beacon
Posted 3/20/25
The Edmonds Stream Team released 5,000 baby chum salmon into lower Shell Creek on Monday. The Suquamish Tribe donated the salmon fry to help the community effort to bolster salmon populations in local creeks that flow directly to Puget Sound.
This item is available in full to Beacon subscribers.
by Eliza Aronson
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Closing arguments were submitted last week in a hearing that could determine if the creek will be passable for salmon in the next three years.
Continue reading “Examiner to decide route of Perrinville Creek”By Joe Scordino, Project Leader
Edmonds Stream Team
March 12, 2025
Photos by Clint Wright, Joe Scordino, and John Brock
The Edmonds Stream Team released 5,000 “baby” chum salmon into lower Shell Creek on Monday. These chum salmon “fry” were donated by the Suquamish Tribe to help the community effort to bolster salmon populations in local creeks that flow directly to Puget Sound.
Continue reading “Press release: Bolstering Shell Creek’s Salmon Population”