Did you miss your news last week? Here’s a selection of the week’s top news items from across Snohomish County as they appeared in The Herald. For the full stories, go to www.heraldnet.com.
Sunday, July 30
Raptors sit on a perilous perch: Nowhere on the Pacific Coast, nor possibly in the entire United States, are there more osprey than Port Gardner Bay and the Snohomish River estuary.
But this tenacious fishing bird, thriving after nearly becoming extinct 40 years ago, is losing the critical nesting ground that has made it so successful here.
Lukas Velush
Monday, July 31
Cities eyeing same land: Snohomish is interested in it. Lake Stevens wants it.
Both cities are setting their sights on about 370 acres of rural land west of Highway 9 and north of U.S. 2 that lie between their boundaries. The acreage could be developed for up to 3,000 homes and commercial buildings and generate tax revenue.
Yoshiaki Nohara
Tuesday, August 1
Ecoterror victims rebuild: The call came at 3:55 a.m.
The woman on the other end of the line was crying.
“I don’t know how to tell you this, but your house is completely on fire,” Karla Verbarendse remembers her future neighbor saying. Flames swallowed the 9,000-square-foot house he had spent years designing for his family.
The Verbarendses now are rebuilding on the same 15-acre waterfront pasture where their home was destroyed in January.
Kaitlin Manry
Wednesday, August 2
Growth spurs switch at port dome: The Port of Everett is hoping to help solve the Northwest’s cement shortage by becoming a major importer of the product.
In a deal to be considered by the port commission, Lehigh Cement would take over an ore storage dome on the waterfront and use it to bring in a minimum of 500,000 tons of cement from Asian countries in its first year of operations.
Mike Benbow
Thursday, August 3
State Patrol targets I-5 speeders from air: The Washington State Patrol wants to put the brakes on a deadly problem on I-5 north of Marysville.
Based on monitoring-station data, state officials estimate that each day, nearly 60 vehicles are topping 90 mph on the stretch of I-5 north of Smokey Point into Skagit County.
Troopers will spend the next three months stalking fast-moving drivers. They want to see a decrease in the number of injuries and fatal collisions on the freeway.
Scott Pesznecker
Friday, August 4
Greenpeace criticizes Everett mill: Greenpeace is taking aim at Kimberly-Clark Co.’s Everett pulp and paper mill, criticizing it for using wood fiber from Canada’s coastal temperate rain forest to make toilet paper and paper towels.
Kimberly-Clark calculates that slightly less than 25 percent of the wood chips that flow through its pulp mill on the Everett waterfront come from Canadian rain forest trees.
Lukas Velush
Saturday, August 5
Everett woman survives shooting: Christina Rexroad’s path to recovery began when her heart started beating again at the hospital. The Everett woman was seriously injured July 28 when a gunman opened fire at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. One woman died. Four others were injured. Rexroad’s survival was a miracle, her mother said.
Scott Pesznecker
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