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April 19, 2011
$500,000 bail set for man accused of car ramming By Rob Ollikainen Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — A Clallam County Superior Court judge on Monday set $500,000 bail for the man accused of ramming a car with four people inside into a power pole last week.
The judge raised the bail beyond the prosecutor’s request because, he said, the suspect had appeared before him on other charges less than an hour before the car-ramming incident. Michael J. Moyle, 28, of Port Angeles, held in the Clallam County jail for investigation of
four counts of first-degree assault and one count of hit and run, made his first court appearance Monday — less than 24 hours after he was arrested Sunday night. He is accused of ramming a black Ford Mustang into a red Subaru sedan driven by Stewart
Baker, 24, on residential South Laurel Street last Wednesday, then leaving the scene in a getaway truck driven by another man. The most seriously injured was Stewart Baker’s son, 5-year-old Aaron Baker, who was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center with
Michael Moyle a head injury and broken leg. He had been discharged from the Seattle hospital by Saturday. Turn
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Port of PA Roof catches fire; no injuries envisions composites for future By Paige Dickerson Peninsula Daily News
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Lt. Kevin Denton, left, and firefighter Pete Sekac with the Port Angeles Fire Department inspect the roof of a home at 1005 H St. in Port Angeles that caught fire at 11:32 a.m. Monday. Embers from the home’s wood stove landed on the cedar shingle roof and caused the roof to catch fire. No one was injured, and the roof suffered only minor damage, Capt. Terry Reid said. Reid cautioned against using cedar shingles as a roofing material.
PORT ANGELES — The success of composite industries making items ranging from snowboards to aerospace parts gives the Port of Port Angeles a vision for its future — more composite industries. That was the message composed by Port Executive Director Jeff Robb to an audience of about 80 at Monday’s Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce meeting at the Port Angeles CrabHouse Restaurant. Buoyed by estab- Robb lished composites manufacturers Westport Shipyard in production yachts, Angeles Composites Technologies Inc. in aerospace and Mervin Manufacturing in athletic gear such as snowboards, the port is in the process of recruiting alternative energy manufacturers, Robb said. “We don’t have anyone ALSO . . . committed, but we are ■ Composite looking into alternative “campus” energy,” he said after the breaks meeting. ground “In cooperation with today/A5 Pacific Northwest National Lab [the Battelle lab on Sequim Bay], we are looking at all opportunities. “That could mean manufacturing, maintenance, that could mean deployments or all of the above. “We will seize all opportunities.” All of the opportunities are preliminary, Robb stressed, but it is part of an effort on the part of the port to brand itself and Clallam County as a prime location for composites industries. “Last month, Gov. [Chris] Gregoire compared the future of Washington to a line in the movie ‘The Graduate’ — that line was just one word: ‘plastics,’” Robb said. “For us, that means composites. Turn
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Senate advances its 2-year budget, cuts $4.8 billion The Associated Press
OLYMPIA — The state Senate approved Monday its proposed two-year state budget that slashes $4.8 billion in state spending, including deepening cuts to kindergarten-through-high school education. The bill containing the budget, with cuts to most state programs, passed on a 34-13 vote after leaders of both parties said it wasn’t the spending plan they would have written if they were working alone.
bill, represents Clallam and Jefferson counties in the Senate ■ Group walks 50 miles to along with a portion of his home Olympia to protest budget/A5 Grays Harbor County. “The Senate has come together Instead, they said, it repreto do something historic. It is a big sents ideas from liberals, moderdeal,” Hargrove said. ates and conservatives. “This is the first bipartisan budget — ever,” Sen. Jim Har- Budget negotiations grove, D-Hoquiam, said, likening The 34-13 vote sets up negotiait to such seemingly impossible tions with the House of Represenaccomplishments as landing on the moon or swimming the Eng- tatives and Gov. Chris Gregoire’s Office which will likely take the lish Channel. Hargrove, who voted for the legislative session into overtime.
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The differences, few but large in money, between the House and Senate budgets seem too big to close between now and the end of session, currently scheduled for Easter Sunday. “Make no mistake, we cut and we cut deeply,” said Sen. Ed Murray, D-Seattle, chair of the Ways and Means Committee. “It is the deepest cuts and the lowest level of spending in decades. It has been a painful process and we have made very difficult decisions.”
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The plan includes $4.8 billion in cost-cutting measures as it tries to fill in a $5.1 billion deficit in the next two-year period. It also includes more than $450 million in fund transfers, among other things, and leaves an ending balance of about $725 million. Democrats hold a 27-22 majority in the Senate, with several moderate Democrats who have shown a willingness to work the Republicans.
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