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From left, WATR Center Executive Director Larry Cluphf leads a tour of Edmonds CC's aerospace training facility for Rep. Rick Larsen and Edmonds CC President Dr. Amit Singh. The aerospace industry is thriving in Snohomish County, with more than 200 aerospace manufacturers and suppliers who employ about 80,000 workers.
South Snohomish County Democratic state legislators say that passing a capital budget is at the top of a long to-do list now that Democrats will control both the State's Senate and the State House of Representatives when the 2018 Legislature starts its 60-day session in January. Democrats took control of the Senate when a Democratic victory in a November special election gave them a 25-24 majority.
A glance at our top read HeraldNet stories of 2016 reveals what many already know to be true, or at least believed it to be so. People are drawn to tragedy - death, destruction, loss - but there are definitely some outliers worth mentioning .
A small crowd held a vigil outside the Snohomish County Courthouse in Everett Sunday following the deaths in Minnesota, Louisiana and Texas earlier this week. In times of social discord and national mourning - such as the nation is experiencing following this week's shootings in Minnesota, Louisiana and Texas - people tend to congregate in support of one another, sharing the hopes that that will carry them forward through dark times.
Most of us are familiar with the prescription medicine take-back program offered by Snohomish County law enforcement agencies, which allows residents to drop off unused prescription drugs and over-the-counter medications for safe and proper disposal at local police stations. And most of us still have a bottle or more of an unused or expired medication in our medicine cabinets.
Ballot counting for the presidential primary ended Tuesday and the results show Democratic voters in Snohomish County evenly split on who should be their party's nominee this fall. Hillary Clinton, the front-running Democrat and likely nominee, collected 52.4 percent of the Democratic vote statewide to beat Bernie Sanders by roughly 40,000 votes.