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Construction company owner pleads guilty
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Bryan Stowe of Sumner pleaded guilty Thursday to felony charges on behalf of himself and his company, Stowe Construction Inc. Stowe, 65, and his company are liable for $750,000 in punitive fines for felony violations of the Clean Water Act. Under the plea agreement, presiDistrict dent and co-owner Stowe admitted to knowingly violating the Construction General Storm Water Permit for the Rainier Park of Industry project located on West Valley Highway. The violations contributed to two major landslides at the project site in the 2011 winter season, causing highway closures. Stowe may face up to three years in prison when sentenced in September, according to the United States Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Washington. Stowe obtained West Valley Highway site coverage under the
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Angela Crone, from Bonney Lake High School, waves to the crowd in Sumner Saturday Believe in Princess during the Daffodil Festival Grand Floral Parade. Dennis Box, The Courier-Herald. To view a slide show go to www. the Daffodils blscourierherald.com.
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Genealogists find roots of the past in the 1940 census records By Daniel Nash
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or genealogists, one of the most powerful tools outside of preserved family documents is the official United States Census, which attempts to track information on every United States resident for the purpose of congressional districting. But the census’s usefulness in this secondary purpose is tempered by a limitation imposed to support its pri-
mary objective: to preserve citizens’ privacy, the names and addresses of respondents are kept confidential for 72 years. So in the second year of each decade, dedicated family tree trackers eagerly anticipate the release of another census from more than two generations past. On April 2, the United States Census Bureau released the raw data of the
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Caroline Harkness and Jim Johnson search for her family’s 1940 Census listing. Photo by
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