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A blog for members and friends of Three Lakes Neighbors for Responsible Growth, dedicated to monitoring and maintaining the rural environment of central Snohomish County, Washington

Latest Blog Posts

  • Daily Kos: ACTION: Help Obama Win an Impossible Fight on Mar 1, 2009 in Local Business Community Issues

    I posted the following comment in response to the referenced blog post on Daily KOS blog. It’s very clear to me that we need to end our current agricultural support system that makes big payments to large agribusinesses and leaves the small farmers...

  • Is Three Lakes Water Tanking? on Dec 14, 2008 in Water Tank Community Issues

    In response to a notice received in the mail and a flyer stuck in my recycling bin, I went to the informational meeting of the Three Lakes Water Association on Thursday night. It turned into about 45 minutes of information and another two hours plus...

  • Rural Cluster Hearings on Oct 2, 2008 in Rural Cluster Subdivisions

    I attended the Snohomish County Council Rural Cluster Subdivision (RCS)Ordinance Revision hearings this afternoon at the county council hearing room on the eighth floor of the County Admin Building in Everett. Also attending from Three Lakes were Bev...

  • TLNRG 2008 Rummage Sale on Jun 23, 2008 in Fundraising

    Three Lakes Neighbors for Responsible Growth will be having a rummage sale on Saturday, June 28 in the parking lot of Frontier Bank, 818 Ave. D in Snohomish from 9 am to 3:30 pm. This will include Furniture, plants and all sorts of stuff from more th...

  • Fire damages houses in the Street of Dreams . . . on Mar 3, 2008

    Our county has made it into the national news today because someone took extreme measures to attempt to deal with some of the issues that have frustrated the residents of our rural neighborhood. I'm not condoning their methods--but I certainly think.

  • More Shooting on Sep 3, 2007

    It's the Labor Day weekend, and our neighbors are trying out a new automatic or semi-automatic weapon. I certainly hope they are shooting into the hillside, and will get over their fixation with loud noises.I've determined that they are apparent

  • Three Lakes History on Sep 3, 2007

    I spend some time the other day talking with Wayne Burchfield, who is the Manager of the Three Lakes Water Company, from whom almost all of use get our water. Wayne has lived in Three Lakes since 1962, and knows a lot of the old history of the area.