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July 29, 2002
Pentec Environmental
The attached report was prepared for the City of Edmonds to establish baseline information on stream conditions in order to support work toward meeting National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit and ESA requirements. This report covers all of the appropriate significant streams under the City’s jurisdiction.
Continue reading “Edmonds Stream Inventory and Assessment”by Larry Vogel
Posted: May 7, 2025
Longtime Edmonds resident, retired fisheries biologist and tireless advocate for preserving the city’s salmon-bearing streams, creeks and wetlands, Joe Scordino has been selected as Edmonds Citizen of the Year by the Edmonds Kiwanis Club.
Continue reading “Joe Scordino, ‘the environmental conscience of Edmonds,’ is Edmonds Citizen of the Year”
Joe Scordino of Save Our Marsh, in front of Edmonds Marsh, with the 22 acres owned by WSDOT in the far background: Making this area into a wildlife sanctuary would have extensive benefits to our community and to our planet.
Posted Monday, May 5
By Brian Soergel
Edmondseditor@yourbeacon.net
Joe Scordino is the Kiwanis Club of Edmonds’ Citizen of the Year for 2024.
Continue reading “Citizen of the Year: Joe Scordino”May 3, 2025
By Conrad Swanson
Seattle Times climate reporter
Posted: April 30, 2025
Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) crews were out Wednesday mowing vegetation along State Route 104 to help prepare the Edmonds Marsh Restoration site for upcoming volunteer work coordinated by the Edmonds Stream Team. See our previous story for a complete description of the project.
Stuart H Munsch1*, Todd R Bennett2, Jimmy Faukner3, Madison J Halloran4, Karrie M Hanson2, Martin C Liermann2, Michael L McHenry 5, John R McMillan6, Raymond E Moses5, Bob Pagliuco7, George R Pess2, Katherine R Stonecypher4, and Darren M Ward4
Continue reading “Juvenile salmonids traverse coastal meta-nurseries that connect rivers via the sea”April 30, 2025
By Lynda V. Mapes
Seattle Times environment reporter
Posted: April 29, 2025
Larry Williamson
on behalf of Alliance of Citizens for Edmonds
Link to My Edmonds News article and comments:
Editor:
The hearing concerning Residential Zoning (4/23/25) drew a full house with 18 diverse, longtime residents who spoke passionately about the negative residential impacts (increased building heights, lot coverages and density) of the proposed code update. The first, Kim Bayer-Augustavo, chair of the Architectural Design Board, became a de facto keynote for the hearing. Sixteen presenters, including former Planning Board and Housing Commission members, strongly endorsed her comments.
Continue reading “Letter to the editor: Citizen’s Planning Board public hearing – are you listening?”Posted: April 29, 2025
Link to My Edmonds News Article
Note – There are several excellent comments in the article.
Editor:
Last week’s Planning Board meeting was a packed house, with speakers requesting that the board and staff only implement the state’s minimum requirements to comply with housing legislation due June 25. Citizens clearly voiced they want to prevent negative environmental impacts and overdevelopment of our neighborhoods.
Continue reading “Letter to the editor: Stop planned overdevelopment of our neighborhoods”Because the critical areas regulations must be consistent with the comprehensive plan, each comprehensive plan should set forth the underlying policies for the jurisdiction’s critical areas program. [WAC 365-196-485(1)(e)]
Continue reading “EEC proposed Critical Areas Program amendment to Comprehensive Plan”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’”