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Ruling leads to $5M in refunds The county can no longer tax non-Indian owners of property on tribal land, such as Walmart and Home Depot. By Noah Haglund Herald Writer
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Lacey Stickles, 10, rides the Jetty Island ferry back to Everett on Saturday after exploring the island with friends on its opening day.
By Chris Winters Herald Writer
EVERETT — Jetty Island opened to the first summer visitors Saturday under overcast skies. That wasn’t any deterrent to locals who came over with picnics and sand pails. By noon, the ferry was disgorging ever thicker crowds onto Everett’s urban beach along Possession Sound. Families staked out their piece of sand for the day, volleyball games sprang up and kids splashed and ran through the shallows. Among them were Jamie and Jack Bazile, ages 8 and 11, of Snohomish, who were busy burying their friend Kaden Stickels, 9, of Marysville, up to his neck in the sand. “We look forward to coming over here every year,” said Halleh Stickels,
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Kaden’s mother. “It’s our place to relax and unwind and get away from crazy life,” she said. Jetty Island wasn’t always an oasis of calm in the city. It was the result of a failed attempt to create a deep-water port at the mouth of the Snohomish River. Henry Hewitt and the Rucker brothers dredged a channel along the Everett waterfront in 1890s, dumping the spoils along a breakwater running parallel to the shore. Nature had other plans, said Barry Martin, the city’s recreation director. “They couldn’t keep the river from breaking through the breakwater and going out through the north end,” Martin said. After various plans for industrial development were considered and rejected, the city started recreational
EVERETT — Snohomish County has started mailing millions of dollars in property-tax refunds to building owners on tribal land, as a result of a court case with nationwide implications. Big-box retailers such as WalMart and Home Depot at the Tulalip Tribes’ Quil Ceda Village along I-5, plus some 1,200 homeowners, are in line for about $5 million in combined payments, county officials said. The money will come out of budgets for schools, fire departments and other taxing districts. Local governments stand to recoup some lost revenue, but property owners who aren’t exempt from the ruling will be left with a larger share of the future tax burden. “That will be a shift,” county Assessor Cindy Portmann said. The changes under way here, and elsewhere in Washington, stem from a legal fight over a resort in Thurston County. Thurston County had been collecting property taxes on Great Wolf Lodge, the water park resort See RULING, Page A10
Kneeling in the sand, Tom Smith practices his sand-sculpting skills Saturday on Jetty Island for the park’s upcoming Sand Castle Contest.
programs on the two milelong island in 1985, and has run Jetty Island Days every year since, at the same time maintaining the island as a natural area. The city’s daily programs
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on the island include nature walks and birdwatching, puppet shows for the kids and a variety of art programs. The annual Pirate’s Treasure See JETTY, Page A10
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