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)
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.”
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)
An estimated 250 people attended Tuesday’s council meeting. (Photos by Teresa Wippel)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Western Washington University student researchers split a sample of treated stormwater into smaller amounts for analysis. (Courtesy of Curtis Hinman)
About 15 attendees, including Edmonds City Councilmember Vivian Olson (center), started the Walk & Talk guided tour at the PCC parking lot on March 27. (Photos by Nick Ng)
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.
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.
Sandra Centala helping carry aerated buckets loaded with Chum salmon fry donated by Suquamish Tribe for release in Shell creek
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.
Two phrases — “neighborhood centers and hubs” and “middle housing” — are a major focus for the City of Edmonds this year as staff works to update the city’s development code. The Edmonds City Council Tuesday night learned more about those efforts, which follow the council’s adoption of the 2024 Comprehensive Plan update Dec. 17.
The Edmonds Planning Board during its Wednesday, Feb. 26 meeting is scheduled to continue its discussion of the city’s planned code updates for its neighborhood centers and hubs.