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Commission needs more time More than 20 recommendations about what can be learned from the disaster are expected to be presented in the final report.
By Noah Haglund Herald Writer
EVERETT — The experts tasked with identifying key public safety lessons from the Oso mudslide ended what was supposed
to be their last meeting Tuesday without a final product — but they are close. That leaves the Joint SR 530 Landslide Commission less than two weeks to fine-tune their report. When their work is done,
expect to see more than 20 recommendations to better prepare for and respond to future natural disasters. A subgroup working with fire, police and other public safety issues finished its work Tuesday
Forest funding in doubt Bothell now will appeal to lawmakers in its effort to raise money
night. Another group wrestling with how best to put the state on track for better identifying landslide risks, however, will need some more time. See SLIDE, Page A2
Threat sent via Web to printer A Stanwood High School student is accused of threatening to blow up a middle school by sending a message using his iPod. By Rikki King Herald Writer
director for Friends of North Creek Forest. The group helps the city find resources to buy land and preserve the woods. Freese said it is critical that Bothell secure money soon, because a purchase option for two of the three remaining parcels expires next summer. After that, the owner is not obligated
STANWOOD — A Stanwood High School student was arrested last week for allegedly making a bomb threat directed at Port Susan Middle School. Investigators believe the threat was bogus, although its delivery showed some sophistication. The 15-year-old boy apparently used the wireless Internet connection on his iPod to remotely print the threat on a classroom printer at the middle school, Snohomish County sheriff ’s spokeswoman Shari Ireton said. It happened about 2:20 p.m. Nov. 25, when the suspect and other high school students were on a bus that was parked outside the middle school to pick up additional passengers. The threat said the middle school was going to explode at 8 a.m. the following day, and “It’s gunna (sic) blow.” The printout also included a photograph of the suspect’s friend, another high school student, Ireton said.
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BOTHELL — Preservation of undeveloped space in the city is in doubt after voters rejected a bond measure last month. Bothell now is counting on lawmakers in Olympia and Washington, D.C., to allocate money to save the North Creek Forest. And city officials are back at
the drawing board when it comes to paying for a massive makeover of downtown and other projects that were to receive money from Bothell’s failed Proposition 1. It would have provided for $42 million in bonds for improvements to parks and acquisition of public space. The measure included $1 million to buy land to complete conservation of the North Creek Forest, a large natural area north
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of the University of Washington Bothell campus. Since 2011, the city has acquired two-thirds of an undeveloped, wedge-shaped 64-acre tract of land along I-405. Now Bothell needs about $1.3 million to buy a remaining 22 acres before the land is developed. Landowners were poised to build on the property before the housing market crashed, said Jim Freese, the volunteer
Big Apple’s ants Kraut, mustard, no ketchup: Ants, those tiny but plentiful insects, perform a lot of the trash cleanup in New York City, getting to the garbage before rats can. The ants that live on the medians along Broadway, for example, are capable of eating the equivalent of 60,000 hot Dear Abby. . . .D5 Good Life . . . .D1
dogs a year (Page A2). The only problem, at least for the hot dog vendors, is that they’re lousy tippers. Channel-surfing the vast culture wasteland — Christmas edition: Among the holiday specials on TV is “Christmas in Rockefeller Center,” with Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett and other
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musical stars at 8 p.m. on NBC (Page D6). But the night is almost ruined when, during Gaga’s and Bennett’s duet of “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy,” New York City’s ants swarm Gaga and begin consuming her meat dress. Storage wars: Lynnwood is considering a ban on indusShort Takes . . .D6 Sports . . . . . . . C1
trial shipping containers in residential neighborhoods. Most of the county’s cities have bans on the use of the containers for storage and housing (Page A6). Does this mean I can’t hang my hammock from the 150-foot-tall crane I bought at the marine terminal surplus store for the back yard? —Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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Jim Freese, volunteer director for Friends of Northcreek Forest, is hoping lawmakers in Olympia and Washington, D.C., will approve two grants to save the remaining parcels of the 64-acre forest in Bothell.
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