Posted: June 29, 2024
Tag: My Edmonds News
Future stewards lend a hand to baby salmon
My Edmonds News
Posted: May 27, 2024
Last week marked the final releases this year of “baby” coho salmon from Edmonds’ Willow Creek Salmon Hatchery into local streams to help the salmon populations in Puget Sound. On hand to help were community volunteers including future stewards of the environment and even Edmonds Mayor Mike Rosen.
Local drinking water ranks among the best, exceeding new federal standards for contaminants
Posted: May 16, 2024
Salmon fry released into upper Perrinville Creek
Council approves city code regarding critical aquifer recharge areas, hears fire service options
Posted: April 17, 2024
Reader view: Time to speak up about the city’s Comprehensive Plan process
By Joe Scordino
Posted: March 17, 2024
Do the citizens of Edmonds really want changes made to the city’s Comprehensive Plan (which dictates municipal operations in the city) so that we become known as “Edmonds – Where the Sewer Meets the Sea”?
Continue reading “Reader view: Time to speak up about the city’s Comprehensive Plan process”Feb. 13: Online meeting to provide update on Unocal Edmonds cleanup site
Posted: February 10, 2024
Reader view: Protecting our drinking water supply
Posted: November 27, 2023
Edmonds Marsh volunteers conclude their restoration work for the year
Posted: October 5, 2023
Reader view: Can we stop the demise of Edmonds salmon streams?
By Joe Scordino
Posted: August 26, 2023
First it was Perrinville Creek and now it is Shell Creek that is losing its natural functions and salmon habitat — this time because of neglect and inaction by city administration in Edmonds’ Yost Park.
In the case of Perrinville Creek, the loss of salmon is due to both inaction to implement a watershed restoration plan (as promised by Mayor Nelson in a press release over two years ago), and an apparent illegal action the city took in January 2021 to totally block salmon access to Perrinville Creek.
Continue reading “Reader view: Can we stop the demise of Edmonds salmon streams?”City council set March 28 to discuss Edmonds housing growth targets, document guiding Unocal property purchase
Posted: March 26, 2023
Letter to the editor: The role of citizens in Edmonds’ Comprehensive Plan
Posted: October 31, 2022
Letter to the editor: Change Unocal property zoning to protect Edmonds Marsh
Posted: September 20, 2022
Editor:
It is my understanding that the Unocal property is currently zoned MP2. I would like to urge the City Council to change that zoning and designate the property to be used for public use land. It would be very sad to see such a wonderful property, situated next to the marsh and the beach, turned into a housing development, even if it were to include low-cost housing. Due to its proximity to the marsh and coastline, maintaining the open, pristine nature of this land is crucial to the long-term preservation of the quality of the marsh.
Continue reading “Letter to the editor: Change Unocal property zoning to protect Edmonds Marsh”Reader view: Community volunteers dig in to restore Edmonds Marsh
By Joe Scordino
Posted: September 17, 2022
After 500 hours of hard labor on 18 days this summer, over 50 community volunteers relished in their success in restoring stream flows in the Edmonds Marsh that had been blocked by chain-link fencing and a huge, spreading mass of an invasive plant called bittersweet nightshade.
Continue reading “Reader view: Community volunteers dig in to restore Edmonds Marsh”Restoring the Edmonds Marsh: Volunteers making a difference
Posted: August 10, 2022