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A year after the Marysville Pilchuck High School shooting the community is invited to reflect, walk around the campus, and plant red and white tulip bulbs. 9 a.m. Saturday.
The third quarter report will be released Wednesday and is expected to show good numbers amid chatter over a market bubble.
Niners up next The Seahawks travel to take on the NFC West rival 49ers on Thursday. MONDAY, 10.19.2015
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More overdose antidote available By Sharon Salyer
were caused by heroin and prescription opioids in 2013. The county’s rate of heroin deaths exceeds the statewide average. An antidote to help reverse overdoses, called naloxone, helps block the effects of heroin and prescription pain medications such as oxycodone, Vicodin and codeine. Yet the medication wasn’t available to the general public
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Overdoses from heroin and other powerful drugs are so common in Snohomish County that health officials say the problem has become an epidemic. Earlier this year, the Snohomish Health District reported that two-thirds of the 130 accidental overdose deaths in the county
in Snohomish County until late last year. Since then, the number of locations where it’s available has more than doubled. Now it can be purchased without a prescription for about $125 at 10 area pharmacies and one Everett nonprofit. The medication is administered into the nose of a patient who has overdosed. “You don’t have to have medical training,
you just have to know how to do it,” said Shelli Young, a supervisor in the alcohol and drug program of Snohomish County Human Services. Naloxone is safe, she said. It isn’t a narcotic. “You can’t get high from it,” she said. It has no effect on someone who isn’t experiencing an overdose, Young said. The public can get training
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on how to use the medication when they buy the kits at pharmacies. Training also is available at a free 30-minute session open to the public scheduled Nov. 9 in Snohomish. Elizabeth Grant, executive director of the Snohomish Community Food Bank, said she first became aware of the problem See OVERDOSE, Page A2
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Tax hike would raise $25M Agency seeks to fund improvements to existing routes, a second Swift bus for the Canyon Park to Paine Field route and more service to Seattle and east county. By Noah Haglund Herald Writer
Vendors say move next year will be good for Everett Farmers Market By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer
EVERETT — Hundreds turned out Sunday morning for the final Everett Farmers Market of the season. When the market resumes in May it will have a new home at the Port of Everett’s nearby Boxcar Park at the end of the Port Gardner Wharf. The move could bring more people to the already popular
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the five-lane street and railroad. At the end of Port Gardner Wharf, Boxcar Park will give the market more room. It is a key piece of the Port of Everett’s $373 million Waterfront Place Central redevelopment project to build green space, upscale apartments and condos, and boutique stores and restaurants. The Everett Farmers Market is “one of the better ones” in the region, said Craig Rhodes, who works at Breadfarm north of
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Mount Vernon. The artisan bakery’s revenues at the Everett market have gone up about 15 percent compared to last year, he said. “I’ve seen the development of loyal customers” here over the past couple years, he said. Several shoppers asked how they can get Breadfarm’s goods during the winter. See MARKET, back page, this section
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market, said one vendor. At its current home, “you’re either here or leave, because there’s nothing else to do,” Stuart Ballard said. He works at Skipley Farm in Snohomish. The market now is shoehorned between busy West Marine Drive and the port’s marina. The market is moving to make way for new construction, including a walkway connecting the waterfront with North Everett, which sits on a bluff beyond
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Roslyn McNicholl, of Rabbit Fields Farm in Conway, sets up her vegetable stand Sunday before the Everett Farmers Market opens for the last day this year. The market will open again in May at a new location at Boxcar Park at the end of the Port Gardner Wharf.
Voters in much of Snohomish County are being asked to approve a sales-tax hike to support Community Transit. The 0.3 percent increase is the equivalent of adding 3 cents to the price of a $10 purchase. The Nov. 3 ballot proposal aims to generate $25 million per year in new revenue. “I think that it’s a really important investment,” said Mukilteo Mayor Jennifer Gregerson, who’s leading the campaign to support the measure. “We’re a growing community. We really can’t build enough roads to solve our congestion problems. We have to look to other alternatives.” About a third of the new revenue would go to improve existing routes with extra buses and expanded hours. That would include congested commuter routes. Another third would pay for a second Swift rapid bus line between Paine Field and Bothell’s Canyon Park area. The new Swift
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