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I run Everett Community and I'm building out the business side of our Shop Local page. It's got a solid list of local nonprofits, but I've been slow to give small businesses the same showcase.

So what small business in Everett deserves real credit? Not just "it's fine" but really treats people well, has great quality, goes above and beyond, whatever it is for you. Tell me the business and why?

I'll be adding them to the Shop Local page over the next few weeks.

The community is doing a MASSIVE job mapping Flock cameras and other ALPR's on OpenStreetMap, but information on WHO actually operates them is mostly missing.

We know major chains like Lowe's and Home Depot, as well as local HOAs, are heavily deploying these but on the map, private cameras look identical to municipal police units.

To support this in my screenshot you can see:
- Lowe's camera: Properly tagged as private/Lowe's.
- Roadway cameras: Mapped as Flock Safety ALPRs, but marked as "OPERATOR UNKNOWN" as there is no operator information.

For anyone trying to avoid businesses feeding into private surveillance networks, this missing metadata is the main bottleneck.

Questions for the community:

1. OSINT & Verification: What are your best methods for tying a physical camera node to a specific business vs. city contract? (Public procurement logs, FOIA requests, physical stickers/markings, HOA meetings?). I have tried FOIA request but they seem to get slow rolled.
2. OSM Standards: Should we focus purely on populating operator=* with the specific business name (e.g., Lowe's). How does a person updating this know? A camera in a Lowes parking lot is probably a safe guess but telling an HOA vs City Police is another story
3. Workflows: What features or field-mapping tools can we build into apps to make filling in operator info quick while on the ground?

Looking for workflows, local success stories, or ideas on how to organize a community drive to get this filled in.

My father had a stroke over the 8/8, and on the 8/14 later we received a code violation from the City of Everett regarding his 2002 Ford F-650. The truck has been sitting for about 5 years and currently doesn't run.

It's a cab-and-box configuration with a hydraulic lift, so it's more of a commercial/work truck than a typical pickup.

The city is giving us until 8/31 to either remove it, make it operable/registered, or completely cover it with an approved opaque vehicle cover.

We're trying to figure out what makes the most sense:

• Buy a custom cover: probably the easiest solution, but these aren't cheap, and my dad may never fully recover enough to actually use the truck again.
• Get it running and registered: potentially much more expensive, especially after sitting for 5 years, and we don't even know what condition it's in.
• Sell it as-is: we'd rather not give it away, but finding a buyer for a non-running F-650 with a box and hydraulic lift on such short notice seems difficult.
• Tow it somewhere else: moving it to another location in Everett doesn't seem to solve the problem if the same city code applies there.

We're dealing with a lot right now and aren't very familiar with these trucks. What would you do in this situation? Is there another option we're overlooking?

My wife and I are hoping to come up to Forest Park tomorrow and meet up with my son and daughter-in-law and grandson. My wife is mobility challenged and had read that there were only porta potties in the park. Does anybody know if that's the case, or do they have regular bathrooms open?

Hi, like the title states, I am looking for witnesses to a car collision that occurred on April 1st, 2025 in Mill Creek, WA. It was by the Mill Creek Town Center and involved two vehicles that had a head-on collision due to one party running a red light. I’m posting to r/EverettWA because I know many Mill Creek residents— or Everett folks who travel through/to Mill Creek —are in this sub.

Originally, my insurance and hers found me 100% not-at-fault because I reported that she ran a red light. Now, though, I’ve gotten word that they have both changed their tune. Apparently, her insurance insists that, because she claims she entered on a yellow, not a red, that I am at fault. Our insurances have argued back-and-forth, and now determined us both partially culpable, and have allotted me 60% of the fault, and her 40% at-fault.

I don’t want to have my auto insurance rate jacked up because of her lie and unwillingness to take responsibility for her actions of running a red. I’ve tried everything regarding getting recorded info of the exact moment of collision: i.e. traffic camera footage, my auto insurance’s mobile app crash recognition time stamp to then cross reference with the WSDOT Traffic Signal Phase Logs, etc… to prove that she entered after the light turned red. But I’ve had no luck. My insurance has said again and again that they have no way to access the info I need, or that certain things have been destroyed (like the Event Data Recorder, AKA the car’s Black Box, since both of our cars were totaled and scrapped for parts by now), or that certain data was never recorded / archived / saved.

So, I’m hoping there’s a witness who can corroborate my claim that she entered on a red.

THE CRASH:
I was in the left-turn lane, with my car partially in the intersection (as is legal), heading south on Bothell-Everett Highway, ready to turn left (east) onto 153rd Street. The light flashed yellow, and I waited appropriately for northbound opposing traffic on Bothell-Everett highway to clear. Then the light turned solid yellow. A northbound car leisurely passed thru the intersection. Then everyone else heading that way (northbound) stopped, or were coming to a halt. Far away, like 6+ car lengths or more, there was a Mercedes that was going at a fast pace, but because it was so far away, I assumed — as any reasonable driver would — that she would stop since the light had already turned to a *solid* yellow for multiple seconds by that point. I had to turn left to get out of the intersection because by that point, the light was about to —or already had —turned red. And again, she wasn’t close to the intersection; she was several+ car lengths away.

I started my left turn, knowing that the light had probably already turned red by then, but kept my eyes on her to make sure she was slowing down. I realized that not only was she not slowing down, but she was speeding up, probably between 50-60 MPH even though the speed limit there is 30 MPH. I thought, “Oh, shit, she’s gonna run the red!” Because I had barely started my left turn, I knew that it would be faster to try to straighten my car out and swerve to the right to avoid her. That was the faster, safer option than trying to complete my left turn to get out of her path. However, because she was speeding so much, I couldn’t get out of her path fast enough, and we had a head-on collision. My car spun 180° before it stopped, dead.

Police came, interacted with us, and we kept apart from each other, which was easy since she stopped so far down the highway, while my car was still close to the intersection. Originally, for many months, she refused to speak to my insurance AND her insurance. I, however, was immediately completely cooperative.

Mind you, this accident was 3 days before my WEDDING, which I planned/ran myself, so I had A LOT to do, on top of working. So I was NOT happy about how much of a hassle all this was. I also was injured. Neither of us needed an ambulance at the scene, though.

I could’ve been hurt far worse than I was, but luckily, my car’s safety features and the nature of the angle of impact kept me pretty safe.

I found out recently that she claimed injury as well, so she might be lying to get my insurance to cover her medical expenses on top of avoiding her auto insurance rate from going up. I don’t know. I just know that I do not want to be found over 50% at fault and have that on my driving record, AND have my auto insurance rate jacked up because she finally talked to her insurance to lie to them to avoid taking the blame for running a red and hitting me HARD. She literally could’ve killed me.

Please let me know if you witnessed this crash and are able to state that you saw her enter after the light had turned red. If you have any information, message me directly, please.

Thank you 🙏

There's usually 2 or 3 seals hanging out near the dry boat storage because there's a fish cleaning station and they know they'll get some scraps. Exactly like my cat whenever I make a move to the kitchen

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The Goodwill at 3002 Hoyt Ave is closing down after 42 years of operating in Downtown Everett. The building was built in 1920 and owned by Goodwill but hasn’t been put up for sale yet. The larger Everett Mall Way Goodwill location remains open, as well as the warehouse “bins” outlet on 2208 W Casino Road. The downtown Everett Goodwill we be fully closed down on August 14th, 2026.

This is another unfortunate loss for Everett, as there will be no lower cost shopping options downtown for residents. A lot of the other antique stores downtown focus more on furniture. I guess this will be a good opportunity for them to shift their products a bit. The closest thrift stores are not within walking distance, including Luma NW, Value Village and St Vincent De Paul, over 2 miles away. This just adds to the losses as of late from Walmart, Fred Meyer, and Martin Lumber.

Article: My Everett News