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, April 22
Expect a UW branch by ‘08: New colleges don’t get started very often, especially in Snohomish County.
“Let’s get going,” Gov. Chris Gregoire said. “If ever there’s a time to move forward, it is now.”
The governor wants to “get going” on the University of Washington opening a four-year branch campus to serve residents of Snohomish, Island and Skagit counties.
Jerry Cornfield
Monday, April 23
WASL deadlines delayed: High school students who fail to pass the reading, writing or math portions of the WASL could still graduate in 2008 under a bill Democrats herded to passage hours before the Legislature adjourned Sunday.
The bill heading to the governor gives students several more ways of qualifying for graduation if they can prove their proficiency in the subject area of the WASL that they failed.
Jerry Cornfield
Tuesday, April 24
300 jobs vanish in flash at lender: Mortgage Investment Lending Associates Inc. was growing so fast two years ago it held a job fair to quickly fill about 300 new positions. The mortgage industry was booming, and so was the company, which specialized in subprime loans.
On Friday afternoon, the Montlake Terrace company’s meteoric rise came to an abrupt end with a short e-mail to employees from Layne Sapp, MILA’s founder and chief executive, informing all 300 of the company’s remaining employees that they were immediately out of work.
Eric Fetters
Wednesday, April 25
First 787 part arrives: Workers at the Boeing Co.’s Everett plant could begin piecing the first 787 together today.
At 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, the company’s giant white 747 freighter, the Dreamlifter, touched down at Everett’s Paine Field carrying with it the first major Dreamliner component.
Despite a lack of ceremony, the arrival of 787 horizontal stabilizers from Boeing’s Italian partner, Alenia Aeronautica, marked a major step forward in Boeing’s first 787 delivery, scheduled for 2008.
Michelle Dunlop
Thursday, April 26
Police chief’s sudden death stuns Edmonds: The procession of flashing lights and rumbling engines broke the silence of the gusty, gray afternoon in downtown Edmonds.
The police motorcade stopped at a funeral home on Fifth Avenue.
Edmonds Police Chief David Stern died early Wednesday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, just hours after he was found in a vehicle after suffering a brain aneurysm. He was 61.
Scott Pesznecker
Friday, April 27
Condos or fuel tanks? More than 1,000 luxury waterfront condominiums might replace acres of huge petroleum tanks that have stood like sentinels on Puget Sound for nearly a century.
The Snohomish County Council is considering a bid to completely transform Point Wells from a polluted industrial site into an urban housing complex.
Jeff Switzer
Saturday, April 28
Could gas hit $4 a gallon? On Friday afternoon, Miles Rotter of Everett watched as the digital numbers on a gas pump stopped at $75.
With gasoline costing just under $3.34 a gallon at this Shell station on Evergreen Way, $75 bought him 22.4 gallons for his pickup truck. That didn’t fill the tank all the way.
Gas prices in Snohomish County hit a new record on Memorial Day weekend last year. This year, prices are in record territory again, a month earlier than that.
Eric Fetters
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