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MTHS senior turns setbacks into winning state championship in STEM contest

After five years of late nights, sliced fingers and shattered wood, Mountlake Terrace High senior Tony Lopez Hernandez has turned early failures into a state title and a lasting...

MLT business owner Amanda Buckner wins two kickboxing championship titles

Mountlake Terrace business owner Amanda Buckner won two gold medals in kickboxing and Muay Thai at the WKA World Championships in Sheffield, England, in October. Buckner trains out of Wildstyle...

MLT resident wins Mrs. Universe 2025 Ambition Award

Shifali Jamwal, an environmental advocate from Mountlake Terrace, received the Ambition Award during the 2025 Mrs. Universe Pageant in the Philippines — and she did it while staying true...

Lynnwood champion off-roader returns to compete for another potential title

Lynnwood resident Carey Lando is a champion: Last year, she and her teammate won the X-Cross class of the Rebelle Rally, an eight-day off-road competition in California and Nevada....

Helping small businesses thrive the mission of new MLT Chamber executive director 

When Aireal King was hired to be the new Mountlake Terrace Chamber of Commerce executive director, she stepped into a role that was completely new to her – at...

Family, friends gather to honor former Rep. Phyllis Gutiérrez Kenney at memorial

A collage of photos and tokens of former Rep. Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney’s personal and professional lives. (Photos by Nick Ng) More than 300 people attended the June 28...

Veteran Snohomish County bus driver wins first-place title for second time in International Bus Roadeo event

Community Transit bus driver Matt Chomjak has once again proven he’s among the best bus drivers in the world, clinching the first-place title at the 2025 International Bus Roadeo....

Eagle Scout builds playground for dogs at Lynnwood’s PAWS shelter

A Lynnwood Eagle Scout has turned a service project into a source of daily joy for shelter dogs awaiting adoption. Rudransh Bhattacharya, a ninth grader at H.M. Jackson High School...

Alison Alfonzo Pence is Northwest Neighbors Network’s first executive director

Northwest Neighbors Network (NNN) has hired Edmonds resident Alison Alfonzo Pence as its first executive director. Pence, who was semi-retired, decided to come out of retirement to work full...

End of April marks the end of an era for MLT Post Office as Jocelyn Neri retires

After 36 years and five months of dedicated service to the Mountlake Terrace branch of the U.S. Postal Service, Jocelyn Neri took in her last batch of mail on...

Athlete, pageant winner, empowered leader: MLT’s Natasha Bhagwat does it all

In a celebration of strength and achievement, Mountlake Terrace resident Natasha Bhagwat recently was named Mrs. India Washington 2024-2025 at the 12th annual AmPowering Global Women Festival. This festival,...

Bothell man wins $2 million from Scratch ticket bought in Lynnwood, but nobody believes him on April Fools’ Day

For one Bothell man, this year’s April Fools’ Day was a memorable one – and not because of the reason you expect. In late March, S.M.W. visited the 76 gas...

Homage Senior Services announces its new director of social service and human resource manager

Homage Senior Services has named Krissie Dillin its new director of social services and Kavita Bhandari as the new human resources manager. Dillon has more than 15 years of experience...

Brother-sister dancing duo win first place at Youth America Grand Prix semifinals

Hikari Ulyana Gorbouleva and Yevgeni Gorboulev won top placements at the Youth American Grand Prix (YAGP) Seattle regional competition in January. The siblings represented Olympic Ballet School (OBS) along...

Kathy Liu reflects on a year of accomplishments and challenges at Edmonds Center for Arts

When newly arrived Edmonds Center for the Arts (ECA) Executive Director Kathy Liu first saw Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains while driving on Caspers Street in fall 2023,...

Homage Senior Services scouts for more senior companion volunteers

Sylvia Sweet’s Thursday routine involves waiting in her living room at 2 p.m. Sweet, who lives at a mobile home park in Lynnwood with her daughter, would wait for Vivian...

Fox 13 meteorologist reflects fondly on his broadcast start at Mountlake Terrace HS

Brian MacMillan stands in front of a large video wall -- pointing to it without turning around -- and voices out a weather forecast for the Puget Sound area...

Ashley Nash joins My Neighborhood News Network

Ashley Nash has joined My Neighborhood News Network as a reporter. She will focus her coverage on Lynnwood and will also share K-12 education coverage with reporter Rick Sinnett. With roots...

Providence Swedish Edmonds welcomes its first baby of the new year

Less than 30 minutes into New Year’s Day, Amber-Lynne Rickett and Steffen Horne of Lynnwood welcomed their first child – a 7.2-pound, 20-inch-long baby girl, named Jheneah Elowyn Horne...

Edmonds photographer Karen Mason-Blair greets grunge fans at Musicology Co.

Seattle is famous as the ground zero for grunge music, but Edmonds is where the talent behind the iconic photos of Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam in the early...

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