For starters, there’s probably no way to do a story about a weather-forecasting frog without throwing in a few bad puns. So, we’ll just say up front that children attending Saturday’s GroundFrog Day festivities were ribbeted to the amphibian’s every utterance.

There’s a growing health issue in Edmonds that seems to have a fairly painless solution, but Washington state lawmakers can’t seem to figure it out.

FAA decision on passenger service nearly 2 years overdue

Last week’s Beacon inadvertently misquoted Mayor Earling as using the term “marriage equality” in his comments during the Jan. 23, City Council meeting. In fact he did not use that term.

Boeing released earnings last week. The numbers looked good. Boeing earned $4 billion in 2011. How about if we look beneath the numbers

The gate to Yost Pool will open for the 40th consecutive swim season on June 4, 2012. All people, young and young at heart are welcome to participate at this outdoor jewel of a pool.

There will be a lot of familiar faces on the Community Transit Board of Directors the next two years, even if one of them wasn’t on the most recent nine-member board. All eight board members eligible to remain on the board were re-elected. The newcomer is Edmonds Mayor Dave Earling. He was elected to represent large cities, but this isn’t his first time on the board.

The City of Edmonds FINALLY can help remind dog owners that a clean city is a healthy city. Doggie poop dispensers and bags will soon be appearing throughout Edmonds.

Officials from locally based Providence Health & Services and Swedish Health Services announced today that the affiliation between both health systems is official.

In celebration of its 55th birthday, The League of Women Voters of Snohomish County hosts its annual luncheon at the Everett Golf and County Club, 1500 52nd St. W., Everett, February 11 at 11:30 a.m.

Start tying your own flies to use for fly fishing on local streams and lakes. Learn the tools, materials, and techniques of this art from members of the Olympic Fly Fishers of Edmonds and take home all the flies you tie in class.

In this day and age, when it is easy to get discouraged about our society and local communities, it is so refreshing to find true citizen heroes, who step up to help a stranger for no reason -- other than the goodness in their hearts.

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The Port Commission of the Port of Edmonds held a regularly scheduled meeting at 7 p.m.,, Monday, January 30.

At its mid-winter convention, the Washington State Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) recognized an Edmonds-Woodway High School senior for her entry in the VFW Voice of Democracy Audio Essay contest.

With the presidential election in full-swing, immigration is a topic that adults all over the country are arguing about. Local schools, led by Soundview School, are taking the timely topic as an opportunity to educate students on conflict resolution.

Two advisory board members who found their careers at Edmonds Community College and a former college commencement speaker are this year’s Distinguished Alumni Award recipients

Central Washington University announced a dual admission program that will reduce the time and expense college students commit to completing a bachelor’s degree.

Alyssa Fairbanks of Edmonds is currently participating in "Whitman Teaches the Movement" a partner project between Whitman College in Walla Walla, Walla Walla Public Schools, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, a facility based in Montgomery, Ala.

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