It will cost a little more to get on the waiting list for boat moorage at the Everett marina following action Tuesday by Port of Everett Commissioners. In an attempt to whittle down a list that has 550 names and can take 6 to 10 years to negotiate if you have a large vessel, commissioners added a $10 annual administrative fee and made several other changes. They include: a requirement that people give 30 days notice instead of 10 when they intend to give up a boat slip, that applicants get a letter six months before they’re likely to hit the top of the list so they can reaffirm their interest and get a boat, and that they pay a higher initial fee for getting on some of the longer waiting lists to confirm their interest.
Corinthian Colleges Inc. has signed a lease to open a new Bryman College campus in Lynnwood, where it will offer a range of health care degree programs. The campus, the company’s second in the Seattle area and third in the state, is expect to open by July. David Moore, president and chief executive for Corinthian, said growing demand for health-care degrees spurred the opening of the new 20,000-square-foot classroom facility. Initially, the new college will offer a diploma program for medical administrative assistants, adding degrees in medical and dental assisting after that. Moore said he expects the campus to serve more than 400 students within two years of opening. With headquarters in Santa Ana, Calif., Corinthian Colleges is a for-profit, post-secondary education company that operates 61 colleges in 20 states.
The WSA, the state’s oldest and largest technology trade association, is launching a new chapter that covers Island County. The chapter, based in Bellingham, is known as TAG – the Northwest Chapter of the WSA. The group originally began in 1999 as the Bellingham/Whatcom Technology Alliance Group. As a new chapter of the WSA, however, it now will support the technology industry in the wider area of Whatcom, Skagit, San Juan and Island counties. For more information, call Lew McMurran at 206-448-3033, Ext. 101.
Confusion over how to handle last year’s rebate checks has led to more than 3 million errors on tax returns, accounting for two-thirds of all the mistakes discovered by the Internal Revenue Service. A report Tuesday from the General Accounting Office indicated that almost 7 percent of the 45.9 million returns processed through March 15 contained errors related to the checks that were part of last year’s tax cut.
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