HOQUIAM — Police are trying to find out what caused a street brawl in Hoquiam that involved about 40 people and left several injured and five arrested.
Deputy Police Chief Jim Maloney said officers arriving Wednesday evening found fighting and people yelling profanities and racial slurs.
Police made the five arrests and had to use a Taser to subdue one person.
Paramedics treated numerous injuries, but no one required a trip to the hospital.
Associated Press
Hood Canal: Ferry set during bridge closure
The Washington state ferry system will operate a South Point-Lofall route in May and June of next year while the Hood Canal floating bridge is closed for construction.
Transportation Secretary Paula Hammond announced the decision Wednesday after results of a public opinion survey agreed with the ferry system’s plan not to use Port Ludlow.
The South Point and Lofall terminals will be just south of the existing bridge.
The temporary ferry service will cost the state about $3 million.
Peninsula Daily News
SeaTac: Hotels may share airport shuttle
Anyone who has waited for a hotel or rental car shuttle at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has seen dozens of vans and buses crowding through the airport garage.
Now the airport has hired a consultant to look into the idea of a shared shuttle service that would carry travelers to hotels and parking lots.
If the idea is approved, a service run by a consortium of hotels could be phased in over the next two years.
A Sea-Tac environmental program manager Russ Simonson says 61 hotels generate 480,000 shuttle trips each year to the airport. He says a shared service could cut shuttle traffic by more than a third.
The airport also is planning to start a bus shuttle when it completes a new rental car terminal.
The News Tribune
Oregon: State OKs nerve weapon burning
The U.S. Army’s chemical weapons incinerator in Eastern Oregon can resume burning secondary waste.
The state Environmental Quality Commission voted Thursday to accept a report that found continuing to burn the nerve agents, poisonous gases and their associated waste at the Umatilla Chemical Depot poses minimal health and environmental risks.
It decided the best way to do that was to run the material through the existing incinerators, rather than build a new one, adopt a new process or ship the materials somewhere else.
Protective suits, old pumps and contaminated rags are examples of secondary waste.
The Army’s contractor voluntarily suspended disposal of it after a watchdog group won a court judgment that there had not been enough public discussion of an earlier decision.
Associated Press
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