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common room and kitchen. The roof had partially collapsed. Its burnt beams sagged into the rooms below. The sanctuary had some smoke and water damage inside. The fire caused an estimated $300,000 worth of damage, said Fire District 1 Battalion Chief
MONROE — City leaders don’t want a marijuana retail store in town and potential entrepreneurs in the new industry apparently got the message. The state Liquor Control Board earmarked a license for one store in the city limits but no eligible applicant applied for it, an agency spokesman said. That’s fine with the City Council, which in March passed an ordinance aimed at preventing retailers from setting up shop in city limits. Council members approved rules to “prohibit the issuance of a business license to any business which operates in violation of local, state or federal law” and that pretty much covers growing, processing and retail sales of marijuana. “I don’t think anyone on the council will be disappointed by the outcome,” Mayor Geoffrey Thomas said Wednesday, pointing out residents spoke loud and clear in public hearings of their concerns with marijuana businesses sprouting up in town.
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A worker surveys the scene at Mount Zion Lutheran Church on Wednesday in Mountlake Terrace. The fire was reported at about 3:30 a.m.
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MOUNTLAKE TERRACE — Pastor Franklin Paine does not know where his congregation will worship this Sunday. Mount Zion Lutheran Church was heavily damaged by fire and smoke early Wednesday
morning. “Right now, we’re just cleaning up,” Paine said. The future is uncertain for the congregation, which has about 30 regulars at its Sunday service. Paine has been with the parish since 1984, and is one of two pastors there. The fire was reported at around 3:30 a.m. About 30 firefighters
responded from Fire District 1 and the Lynnwood Fire Department. When they arrived on the scene, flames were shooting out of the roof of the building. Firefighters extinguished the blaze by about 4:30 a.m. The fire tore through the attic over the church’s rectory. Charred ceiling and roof material littered the rectory’s offices,
More than 30 years later, teen officially missing SNOHOMISH — The memory of the teen disappearing in the Snohomish River that February afternoon has stuck with Jim Scharf for more than three decades. Scharf was a young Snohomish police officer the day
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Mitchell Leslie Darlington, 17, jumped from the railroad trestle, bellyflopping into the drink on a Saturday afternoon in the middle of winter. Witnesses said they saw him swim toward the north bank, then disappear. Searchers scoured the river, but he was not found. Today, Scharf is a Snohomish County Sheriff ’s Office detective
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who investigates cold cases. Part of his job includes trying to find out what happened to people who have long been missing. In recent times Scharf has been reviewing the county’s missing person files and getting them entered into national data bases. When he perused one called NamUs, Darlington’s name was nowhere to be found.
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Last month, he checked with the Snohomish Police Department and the city’s records department and neither had a file on the teen, who was with friends when he vanished. On April 18, the sheriff ’s office entered Darlington’s information into the National Crime Information Center database, which includes files for missing persons.
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For Scharf, it’s an important exercise. “There is a chance that Mitch’s body was found somewhere on a beach in Puget Sound and they haven’t identified him because he hasn’t been listed as missing,” Scharf said. Scharf has received help from See TEEN, Page A8
TV reviewer is celebrating the return on Jack Bauer in a new season of “24,” even though he can tick off a long list of improbabilities and plot holes (Page D6). We stopped worrying about improbabilities and plot holes in television along about the time that Mister Ed started talking to Wilbur.
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