Echo Lake News

Federal agents have taken over an investigation into the destruction of two radio towers belonging to Everett radio station KRKO.

Firefighters extricated a driver trapped in his pickup truck at the scene of a multi-vehicle accident Monday morning at Cayuga Drive and Echo Lake Road in Echo Lake, Coolbaugh Township.

Big final stretch drive! We're into the last stretch of this spring's Eat the State! fund drive, the begathon we engage in every year or so (or... the soup kitchen crew "Who Will Ride the Train?" That was the gloomy question headlined on the featured front-page story on May 17's Sunday Seattle Times.

"That can't still be Rainier. Is it Mount Saint Helens?" I aksed about the snow-covered volcano looming over green hills.

On March 3, 2008, in a quiet rural patch of Snohomish County near Echo Lake, southwest of Monroe, arsonists claiming to be members of the Earth Liberation Front burned down three newly constructed, unoccupied, "green" houses, damaging two others.