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, Aug. 8
Planning Paine’s future. Snohomish County’s largest airport handles airliners every day – 777s, 747s and 737s. But you can’t buy a ticket to fly on those planes. There is no airline service at the airport, which is home to aerospace giants the Boeing Co. and Goodrich Corp. Whether Paine Field should be home to an airline has been a topic of often loud debate since the 1970s. The debate recently received new life when the county, which owns the field, launched a feasibility study. Its results are due later this summer.
Bryan Corliss
Monday, Aug. 9
Toxic soil heads south. It’s perhaps the most famous dirt in Everett. But its departure means the beginning of an end of an era for Everett, and a prettier look for the northern part of town where new homes are expected to replace barbed-wire fences. More than a century after concentrations of arsenic first contaminated land just south of the Highway 529 bridge, a barge is ready to start hauling the dirt to a high-tech toxic-waste container in Pierce County.
David Olson
Tuesday, Aug. 10
M’s star hitter shoulders his bat. Edgar Martinez doesn’t want to quit playing baseball, but his body is telling him it’s time. Martinez, who became major league baseball’s greatest designated hitter during his 18-year career with the Seattle Mariners, announced Monday that he will retire after this season.
Kirby Arnold
Canyon Falls takes second life. Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office divers on Monday found the body of a 20-year-old Bothell man about 20 yards downstream from the base of the falls. His death was the second there this summer.
Katherine Schiffner
Wednesday, Aug. 11
City resists tank farm plans. Development of the old fuel depot in Mukilteo would likely be a financial disaster unless it involves a number of things that residents say they don’t want – condos, taller buildings and less environmental protection. That was the word Tuesday from a financial consultant who evaluated a wide range of ideas for the property adjacent to Mukilteo’s downtown that once housed military fuel tanks.
Mike Benbow
Thursday, Aug. 12
Teen drowns at Twin Lakes. A teenager drowned about 15 feet from shore at Twin Lakes Wednesday after wading down a slope that ended in a deep drop-off. The accident happened shortly before 5:20 p.m. in the south part of the lake. The 18-year-old apparently did not know how to swim, witnesses said. His drowning was the third in Snohomish County in a week.
Katherine Schiffner
Friday, Aug. 13
Gun purchase checked. Monroe police want federal agents to look into how Bryan Hetherwick was able to buy a gun just hours before killing his grandson and himself.
Diana Hefley
Saturday, Aug. 14
Charley hits hard. President Bush declared a major disaster area in Florida on Friday, while his brother, Gov. Jeb Bush, projected damage from Hurricane Charley could exceed $15 billion. A crash on Interstate 75 in Sarasota County killed one person, and a wind gust caused a truck to collide with a car in Orange County, killing a young girl. A man who stepped outside his house to smoke a cigarette also died.
Associated Press
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