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Oil train secrecy challenged Monte Citizen spotters spent a week monitoring how often BNSF Railway transports Bakken crude in the county. By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
OLYMPIA — BNSF Railway doesn’t want civilians to know
how often it transports large shipments of Bakken crude oil through Snohomish County, but a mathematician from Everett can give you a pretty good estimate.
Dean Smith, 71, a retired researcher for a federal agency, isn’t on the “need-to-know” list, but he’s got a darn good idea of the frequency and routes of oil trains. He organized the Snohomish County Train Watch, and he and 29 volunteers monitored
train traffic in Edmonds, Everett and Marysville for a week in April. Crude-oil tank cars can be identified by their red, diamondshaped hazardous-material placards that bear the number 1267. See SECRECY, Page A7
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Cristo work delayed Rather than trying to rush to complete cleanup in a shortened time, the Forest Service will use this summer to finish access to the site. By Chris Winters Herald Writer
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Oso mudslide survivor Amanda Skorjanc has her arm signed by Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman while Skorjanc’s neighbor, Seth Jefferds (left), and her fiance, Ty Suddarth (center), look on after a team practice Thursday at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center in Renton. Skorjanc and Suddarth also met with quarterback Russell Wilson and head coach Pete Carroll. “The players said it was an honor to meet me, but I was thinking, ‘It’s an honor to meet you!’ ” Skorjanc said.
MONTE CRISTO — A combination of a wet spring and delayed report-writing has pushed back the scheduled cleanup of a contaminated former mining town in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. Monte Cristo’s last mines closed more than a century ago, and the last businesses were closed in the 1970s. It remains popular with hikers and outdoor enthusiasts, even though the site of the former boomtown is littered with an estimated 18,000 cubic feet of tailings contaminated with arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury and other toxic metals. The U.S. Forest Service had planned to start some of the cleanup work at the town site this summer, but now the bulk of the work won’t start until 2015. “Rather than rushing and trying to get out this year, we’re going to try and do the entire removal in 2015,” said Joseph Gibbens, the Forest Service’s on-site coordinator responsible for most mine cleanup sites in Washington. Rather, the Forest Service is trying to use this summer to complete the access road and prepare the site so next summer’s work can start at the earliest opportunity. See MONTE CRISTO, Page A8
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3 and show the court how it has followed its orders in the 2012 McCleary decision or face contempt. The attorney for the coalition
Bank of Taco Bell Ask about our Chips and Salsa Mutual Funds: A Mexican fast food chain in London is selling what it calls “Burrito Bonds.” Along with an 8 percent return, the bonds also pay a free burrito each week for the life of the investment (Page A11). It sounds like a good deal, Dear Abby. . . .D5 Horoscope . . . E6
that sued the state over education funding was happy to see the court order issued on Thursday. “I’m very excited because It shows that they are taking the
but to get sour cream and guacamole for your burrito, you have to invest in a Side Order Certificate of Deposit. Was it from a shih tzu? Residents of a wealthy Los Angeles suburb have asked their mayor to step down after a camera caught him throwing dog poop on the walkway of a political op-
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ponent. The mayor’s actions put the town in a bad light, residents said (Page A10). It wasn’t the political motivation that upset the residents; it was that the mayor threw poop that wasn’t from a purebred dog. Giving us the strait poop: British Columbia’s refusal to act on a 20-year-old promise Stocks . . . . . .A12 TV . . . . . . . . . .D6
state’s violations seriously,” Thomas Ahearne said. The McCleary decision said See STATE, Page A8
to build a wastewater treatment plant for Victoria’s sewage, which it pumps raw into the Strait of Juan de Fuca, has soured relations with Washington state (Page A6). Does someone have an email address for that California mayor? We have a little job for him.
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SEATTLE — The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday ordered lawmakers to explain
why they haven’t followed its orders to fix the way Washington pays for public education. The court has ordered the state to appear before it Sept.
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