EVERETT— In South Everett’s Mariner neighborhood, located at the northeast corner of 4th Ave West and 128th Street Southwest, an excavation crew are currently hard at work demolishing an old Patty’s Eggnest, who’s owners sold the restaurant to Sno-Isle Libraries in 2024. In its stead will be a new permanent library built from nearly a decade of gauging community interests while offering a much-needed third place for the residents of South Everett.

Right across the street, in a shopping complex connected to a Safeway, a Sno-Isle “demo” library opened in 2017. These demonstration libraries are Sno-Isle pilot programs, temporary libraries typically leasing out spaces in communities that don’t have a permanent library facility yet. It serves as a steppingstone, the library says, to showcase e

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