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Vol. 123, No. 49
ARLINGTON — Matthew Sheppard was 12 years old and had only four more days left in the school year, but that night, he was clinically dead for four minutes. On June 15 of this year, Matthew was sent to the office after telling his teacher that he was experiencing head pain, which led to a 911 call when his hand went numb. Within half an hour, by the time he reached Cascade Valley Hospital, he was paralyzed from the neck down. While being
transported to Harborview Medical Center for an MRI, he stopped breathing, and after his arrival, he died for four minutes at midnight. “It was quite the ride,” said Matthew’s mom, Tansy Sheppard, who was given a tentative diagnosis of transverse myelitis and Guillain–Barré syndrome as the possible causes of her son’s condition. “Those do the same things as a stroke,” said Ron Sheppard, Tansy’s husband and Matthew’s dad. “They still don’t know for sure what it was, though.” SEE SHEPPARD, PAGE 2
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Greta Pollett of Rehab Without Walls, left, works with Matthew Sheppard through physical therapy.
Roundabout completed on SR 9
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BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
ARLINGTON — While several more weeks of landscaping still lie ahead, the concrete and lane striping on the new roundabout at the intersection of state routes 9 and 531 were all but completed by Friday, Nov. 9. The busy SR 9/531 intersection was chosen to be converted from traffic signal-directed into a roundabout in part because of the 28 collisions resulting in 29 injuries at that intersection within a five-year span. The Washington State Department of Transportation’s contractor, Interwest Construction, began prepping the work area starting on April 30 and commenced SEE SR 9, PAGE 2
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Crews pour the red concrete in the truck apron around the center of the roundabout at the intersection of state routes 9 and 531 on Nov. 5.
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