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County settles for $232K The latest agreement resolves a contract dispute with the firm that was dropped from the courthouse project. By Noah Haglund Herald Writer
EVERETT — Snohomish County leaders approved a $232,000 settlement Wednesday to resolve a contract dispute with
the architectural firm jettisoned from the new courthouse project. The payment to ZGF Architects of Seattle comes on top of $400,000 in legal fees already approved for condemnation proceedings. A half-dozen business owners
need to leave property on the perimeter of a county parking lot by mid- to late November to make way for the nine-story courthouse building. Construction is scheduled to begin in mid-2015. “This is a losing battle for us in terms of us being able to keep our property,” said Janean Jolly, who owns one of the
condemned businesses with her husband, attorney David Jolly. “We’ve accepted that.” The Jollys, like some of their neighbors, are now packing up to move to rented office space in Everett. As planned, the county’s future $162 million courthouse See SETTLES, Page A4
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ARLINGTON — The fan belts seem to come loose quicker these days on Bus 22, which has logged nearly a quarter of a million miles in the 23 years it has taken Arlington students to and from school. It is part of Snohomish County’s oldest school bus fleet.
Last year, the bus had several breakdowns while driver Carol Mitzelfeldt waited for students at school. Mechanics eventually replaced the starter, but parts were hard to come by. “These old buses have gremlins in them and you never can tell,” she said. “The buses are just getting older and we could really use newer ones.” Nearly half the fleet is at least
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13 years old and fully depreciated, meaning they are too old to be eligible for state matching money that helps pay for new buses. Without additional funding, 71 percent of the fleet will be fully depreciated in 10 years. School district leaders hope voters are willing to support a two-year levy on the Nov. 4 general election ballot expected to generate $1.5 million each year
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temporary and subsidized by taxpayers (Page B1). The zombies, unable to find any brains between the two candidates, shambled off, hungry and disappointed. You’re going to have to walk a mile for that Camel: Reynolds American, the maker of Camel cigarettes,
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for new buses. The money would be used to buy 26 buses, district spokeswoman Andrea Conley said. New school buses have a safer seating design, larger windshields for better visibility, more emergency exits, stronger frames and improved traction control, she said.
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More than 11 years after flooding closed it off, motorized access has been restored to campsites and more than 100 miles of trails.
DARRINGTON — The Suiattle River Road, with access to scenic campsites, hunting and fishing areas and more than 100 miles of trails, is reopening 11 years and four days after flooding wiped out part of the route. The road stretches about 23 miles from Highway 530 north of Darrington into the Suiattle River Valley, but has been closed to motorized vehicles about 12 miles in and, farther up, to all access. The blocked-off upper half of the road includes connections to seven popular trailheads, two campgrounds, a rental cabin and a variety of hunting and fishing sites. A grand opening of the repaired forest road is scheduled for Saturday, with a ribbon cutting at 10 a.m. near the Suiattle River Road’s intersection with Highway 530 and a celebration at noon in the Darrington Community Center, 570 Sauk Ave. The afternoon event includes speeches from local politicians, a video about the Suiattle River Valley and a variety of booths from local businesses and organizations. The road’s reopening has been a long time coming. Part of the road was destroyed by floods in 2003. While repairs were under way in 2006, another flood washed out more of the road and ruined the initial progress, project engineer Peter Wagner said. Two sections of road, totaling about a mile and a half, had to be shifted about 500 feet farther away from the river. The work also included realigning and widening sections, expanding and stabilizing bridges over Downey and Sulphur creeks, and putting in a new trailhead and parking area for the Huckleberry Trail. The Federal Highway
Driver Carol Mitzelfeldt checks the tires on the 23-year-old school bus she drives each morning on Route 22 in Arlington. Mitzelfeldt is careful to check every aspect of the bus, which has rolled over close to a quarter of a million miles, before pulling out of the lot each morning to pick up elementary, middle and high school students and take them to school.
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is banning smoking in its buildings. Reynolds said it would build an indoor smoking area for employees. Workers can also use electronic cigarettes (Page A7). Or they can take deep breaths of the smoldering scent of irony. Give me a break: A panel of citizens charged by the state Short Takes . . .D6 Sports . . . . . . . C1
government to advise it on the $8.7 billion in tax breaks it handed out to Boeing says the state first needs to develop the metrics to measure the value of the tax breaks (Jerry Cornfield, Page A3). It’s an improvement over state officials’ original plan of letting Boeing tell them when it was working.
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