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My Edmonds News
Posted: November 20, 2024
It is salmon migration season and significant numbers of chum salmon are actively making their way up Shell Creek. As is always the case, they need to pass many obstacles along the way. This year they were presented with a new and unexpected challenge.
Continue reading “Scene in Edmonds: Finding passage for salmon”By Janelle Cass
Posted: November 12, 2024
The 2044 Comprehensive Plan update for Edmonds calls for 9,069 new housing units, based on an assumed future household size of just 1.4 people per new unit of housing, which would bring the citywide average household occupancy down to 2.11. This assumption risks causing the city to overshoot its true housing needs and invites the kind of overdevelopment that could significantly strain city resources and negatively impact the environment.
Continue reading “Reader view: Edmonds’ growth plan should reflect realistic household data, not inflated targets”By Laura D. Walls
Posted: November 11, 2024
Editor:
The Edmonds Marsh needs your help! Will Chevron be required to complete the Unocal cleanup of the Marsh, or allowed to walk away with the job unfinished?
Continue reading “Letter to the editor: Chevron must be required to complete Unocal cleanup”Posted: November 10, 2024
By Joe Scordino
The Edmonds Stream Team, working with adult and student volunteers from Meadowdale and Edmonds-Woodway High Schools, has been surveying local creeks for salmon – – and the team reports many adult salmon are returning to Shell and Lunds Gulch Creeks.
Continue reading “It’s salmon ‘SEEson’ in Meadowdale Beach Park”My Edmonds News
Posted: October 23, 2024
My Edmonds News
Posted: October 15, 2024
Story and photos by Chris Walton
Posted: October 13, 2024
Volunteers for the Edmonds Marsh Volunteer Restoration Project on Saturday planted over 80 trees near Shelleberger Creek, which runs along Highway 104 and eventually into the marsh.
Continue reading “Edmonds Marsh restoration project volunteers plant more than 80 trees”Posted: October 11, 2024
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Posted: September 30, 2024
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Posted: September 27, 2024
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Posted: September 18, 2024
Updated Sept. 19 with the audio recording.
To aid our readers who were unable to attend, My Edmonds News recorded the full session on audio, linked here. Readers may wish to listen and follow along with the DOE PowerPoint (linked here) to mirror experience of being in the room and see the visual aids as they are being discussed.
Continue reading “‘A cleanup, not a coverup’: Marsh advocates challenge Ecology’s preferred alternative for Unocal site cleanup”The council also learned during Tuesday’s remote meeting that due to planning and development department staffing shortages and other factors, Edmonds is likely to miss the state-mandated deadline for completing its 2024 Comprehensive Plan update.
September 17, 2024