MUKILTEO BEACON
Mukilteo, WA:
always evolving
By Dave Earling | May 22, 2018
I'm sure many of you read our city's two publications, the Edmonds Beacon and My Edmonds News. I look to both to find what's going on in town well beyond what I see and hear about.
From top story to sports to columns to features, we are kept pretty well informed.
Tim's column had to do with his coming across a 1905 map of Edmonds and describing how our current road going south on Fifth until about Walnut, then meandering to Pine to Sixth to Elm to Elm Way and about 100th, then…
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