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, Oct. 16
Everett Mall’s rebirth: Mike Buchan, co-owner of the Baskin-Robbins outlet at Everett Mall’s food court, can see the revamped shopping center coming together around him. From behind the counter, he sees the new Borders store to his left. An Old Navy store set to open Thursday is on the right. Starting this week, six national retailers are opening large stores in or next to the mall, with a new 16-screen movie theater and other improvements to follow. All of which makes Buchan smile.
Eric Fetters
Monday, Oct. 17
Three vie for County Council post: A coin toss won’t do in this race, unless it has three sides. Outspoken incumbent Republican Jeff Sax is in a rematch with the man he unseated four years ago, Democrat Dave Somers, to serve on the Snohomish County Council. The curveball for the candidates is Greg Stephens, an independent candidate in the race. The election is seen as a battle between polar opposites, with Stephens casting himself in the middle of the political spectrum between Sax’s gray pavement and Somers’ green forests. The winner will get a job that pays $88,665 a year to represent District 5.
Jeff Switzer
Tuesday, Oct. 18
787 order bodes well for Boeing: International Lease Finance Corp. has ordered 20 of the Boeing Co.’s new 787 Dreamliner airplanes, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. An order of that size from ILFC is “very significant,” Teal Group analyst Richard Aboulafia said. Such a deal would be worth more than $2.4 billion at list prices; however, analysts say customers have been negotiating discounts of 25 percent or more.
Bryan Corliss
Wednesday, Oct. 19
‘Brilliant, passionate’ woman mourned: Gabriella Muelher-Roosevelt was fluent in at least four languages, earned her master’s degree in clinical psychology on a full scholarship, worked as a research coordinator at the University of Washington and counseled grieving parents. She also was a biker. She cherished her connection to the other women of Throttle Jockettes, a regional all-female riding club. Muelher-Roosevelt, 45, was killed Monday when a pickup pulled out in front of her motorcycle on Highway 104. The Edmonds woman was left on the road to die.
Diana Hefley
Thursday, Oct. 20
Two portly clowns pull off robbery: They had red noses, white faces and wide, wild grins. But even though the two men looked like clowns, they weren’t clowning around. Two overweight men wearing clown masks robbed a doughnut shop south of Everett at gunpoint Wednesday, police said.
Scott Pesznecker
Friday, Oct. 21
Man believed cat ordered him to kill, jury told: A pet cat told a delusional drug user to shoot and kill another man who slept in a chair in Clayton Edward Butsch’s fifth-wheel trailer in January 2004, a jury was told Thursday. With the indication from the feline, Butsch walked over to the chair with a .22-caliber pistol and shot Chad Vavricka in the head, deputy prosecutor Lisa Paul said. The strange story was outlined by Paul during her opening statements in Butsch’s first-degree murder trial in Snohomish County Superior Court.
Jim Haley
Saturday, Oct. 22
Where do you go all day? If Snohomish County is ever going to wean itself from being a King County suburb, it needs to create jobs that will keep its residents here. The county is growing new jobs faster than any other in the state and the unemployment rate has almost dropped by half over the last year, according to the state Employment Security Department. Both offer indications that county residents are staying home to work more than ever.
Lukas Velush
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