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View MoreSchacktoberfest fills Everett with 1,000 glass pumpkins through Sept. 27
Schack Art Center's annual Schacktoberfest runs through Sept. 27 with 1,000 glass pumpkins, a silent auction and hands-on glassblowing, anchoring a fall arts season that stretches across Everett venues.
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View MoreNew Tuesday open mic doubles Everett's poetry stages
Downtown Everett hosts two weekly poetry open mics blocks apart: a new Tuesday night event at Strange Ways Bar and Stage hosted by Barracuda Guarisco, and the 20-year-old Everett Poetry Night at Sisters Restaurant hosted by Duane Kirby Jensen.
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View MoreEverett workshop teaches native planting for birds
Retired Master Gardener Julie O'Donald leads a workshop on creating bird and pollinator habitat with native plants Saturday, Sept. 12, at the Northwest Stream Center in Everett's McCollum Park, with attendees getting 15% off the Adopt A Stream Foundation's fall plant sale.
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View MoreEverett dementia day program opens Sept. 1 at Carl Gipson Center
Volunteers of America Western Washington will launch its Old Friends Club dementia day program at the Carl Gipson Center on Tuesday, Sept. 1, offering twice-weekly respite for up to 12 participants and their caregivers at $800 per month.
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View MoreEverett library offers free puzzle exchange at both branches
The Everett Public Library has stocked about 150 donated jigsaw puzzles at its Main Library and 25 more at the Evergreen Branch for free community borrowing, and will host a competitive Fall Puzzle Challenge on Thursday, Oct. 22.
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View MoreEverett veteran's painting hobby fuels state prescribing pilot
Everett Air Force veteran Kevin Gaines, who used state arts grants to manage PTSD through miniature painting and taught a class at the Everett Public Library, is the local face of Washington's new $250,000 social prescribing pilot that could one day let doctors prescribe art statewide.
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View MoreUnited Way turns Dolly Parton tributes into local books
United Way of Snohomish County is directing Dolly Parton tributes toward its local Imagination Library program, which has mailed more than 375,000 books to county children since launching in 2023.
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View MoreNew Everett nonprofit offers free haircuts, school supplies Sunday
Asc3nd Collective, a newly formed south Everett nonprofit founded by Otha and Elisha Minnifield, will host its "Fresh Fade, Fresh Grade" event Sunday at Tangles & Locs salon, offering free haircuts, backpacks and school supplies to kids four days before classes start.
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View MoreEverett library launches cross-country book club
The Everett Public Library is partnering with the library in Everett, Massachusetts, for the East to West Book Club, a first-ever collaboration connecting readers 2,500 miles apart for discussions of regional history books starting Sept. 19.
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View MoreSound Transit cuts Route 515, adds overnight buses starting Aug. 29
Sound Transit will eliminate six ST Express bus routes starting Aug. 29, including Route 515 used by Snohomish County commuters, while upgrading Route 513 with new Casino Road stops and launching two overnight bus lines.
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View MoreBickford Ford's 4-generation bond with Everett Gospel Mission
Jason Bickford, the fourth generation of his family to work at Bickford Ford in Snohomish, has extended the dealership's decades-long tradition of community service into a hands-on volunteer partnership with Everett Gospel Mission in Everett.
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View MoreFree backpacks, block party at Wetmore Avenue church Saturday
Mysti's Adult and Family Services hosts its free Annual Bayside Block Party & Backpack Giveaway on Saturday, Aug. 22, at Bible Way COGIC on Wetmore Avenue, offering school supplies, food, live music and community resources to Everett families.
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