LAKEWOOD – The opening of an addition to Lakewood Elementary School could be delayed several months, school district officials said Thursday.
The district has contacted a bonding company and discussions are under way whether to retain the project contractor, district spokesman Allen Sharples said.
No decision has been made.
Superintendent Larry Francois said a team of construction experts would be called in if the contractor is terminated to determine what else must be done and to set a time frame for completion.
Everett: Discovery of body closes I-5 lanes
Two lanes of I-5 were closed early Thursday after a woman’s body was found on the freeway.
The woman apparently jumped or fell from the Highway 526 overpass above southbound I-5, State Patrol Trooper Lance Ramsay said. A driver called police shortly before 3:20 a.m.
The woman died at the scene. No foul play is suspected, Ramsay said.
The scene was cleared in several hours, he said, before heavy morning traffic began.
The name of the woman was not available on Thursday.
A fire sparked by a faulty electrical outlet caused $300,000 in damage to an Everett home Wednesday night, firefighters said.
The blaze was reported about 10:30 p.m. at a home in the 3500 block of Grand Avenue, Everett Fire Marshal Warren Burns said. No one was hurt in the fire, which took firefighters about an hour to bring under control.
A body recovered from Armstrong Lake has been identified as that of Donald Taylor.
Taylor, 68, was fishing from a boat Wednesday when he fell into the water, according to Snohomish County sheriff’s spokeswoman Jan Jorgensen.
The Arlington man drowned, and his death has been ruled an accident, according to the Snohomish County medical examiner.
Witnesses saw Taylor launch his boat about 12:30 p.m. A man saw an empty boat floating and a fishing pole dangling in the water several hours later, Jorgensen said. The man swam out to the boat and spotted Taylor’s body in the water about 200 feet away.
From Herald staff reports
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