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The to-do list Get a tree: Bring home a Christmas tree this weekend. Check out our list of tree farms and places with pre-cut trees, as well as instructions on how to get a permit to cut a tree on Forest Service land. Page D1.
BruGull Fest: Everett’s girls and Cascade’s boys triumph,
Shiny: The Lights of Christmas are shining at Warm Beach. It’s open from 5 to 10 p.m. today and Sunday at 20800 Marine Drive, Stanwood. The event also includes concerts, activities for kids and hot food and drinks. Tickets are $10 to $15.
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Trains: A holiday model train show is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at Edmonds Depot, 210 Railroad St. Free. ●
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Second bus line possible Community Transit is considering adding Swift 2, which would link Bothell with the Paine Field Boeing plant. By Jim Davis The Herald Business Journal
It’s the most popular route that Community Transit offers.
Every month, 125,000 people board Swift buses — about one in six Community Transit passengers — along the route that runs between Everett Station
and Aurora Village in Shoreline, mostly on Highway 99. Now the transit agency is considering adding a second line called Swift 2 that would link Bothell with the Boeing plant at Paine Field in Everett. “Boeing has had a big issue with parking for a long time,”
said Martin Munguia, Community Transit spokesman. “They would certainly like to have better transit or more transit to their facility.” A second Swift route would cross with the first one and add See BUS, Page A2
Money grows on these trees
David Morgan is being held on $2.5 million bail after prosecutors say he tried to beat his spouse to death before setting her on fire.
Firs cut down for a power line will be sold to benefit Carnegie Building
By Diana Hefley Herald Writer
Reynolds said. Early last century, city residents petitioned the industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie for money to build a library. At the time, Snohomish’s library was in a converted home on the site where the Carnegie
LYNNWOOD — David Morgan’s car was packed. There were clothes, family photographs, a wedding album and last year’s income tax return. It appeared as if someone was moving. Investigators found his car the same night firefighters found his ex-wife in his garage. She was lying in a pool of blood and reeking of gasoline. Prosecutors allege the Lynnwood man attempted to beat Brenda Welch to death, then set her, and his house, on fire to cover up the crime. Welch, 44, remains at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where she is being treated for a severe head injury and burns covering about 20 percent of her body. She has undergone at least three surgeries. “At best, she faces severe challenges moving forward,” Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Paul Stern wrote in court papers filed Friday. The deputy prosecutor charged Morgan, 55, with attempted firstdegree murder, second-degree assault and first-degree arson. A judge Friday ordered Morgan held on $2.5 million bail. In the charging papers Stern detailed the contentious divorce between the couple, who married in 2006. Welch filed for divorce last year. The couple fought for custody of their 7-year-old daughter. The divorce was finalized in May. Morgan was ordered to pay child support but was granted a reprieve from paying the full amount while on medical leave during the summer and early fall. Morgan had either returned to his job at Boeing, or was in the process of returning, at the time of Nov. 16 fire, Stern wrote. He would be required to pay $1,500 a month once he returned to work. He also was ordered to pay Welch
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David Strasburg (left) and Colby Dikes, from Wyser Construction, cut trees from a now defunct Christmas tree farm to make way for new power lines near Puyallup. The trees are being sold to raise money for the Carnegie Library Building.
By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer
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SNOHOMISH — A Snohomish-based construction company is selling Christmas trees this weekend to raise money to help pay for restoration work on the city’s Carnegie Building. The sale won’t bring in the
roughly $2.5 million still needed to return the former library building to its original 1910 condition, but everything helps, said Dan Reynolds, who organized the sale. He owns Wyser Construction with his wife, Cheryl, and is on the board of directors for the Snohomish Carnegie
Moving day
total strangers move.
Dude, where’s my loveseat? A couple of Pierce County men face residential burglary charges after allegedly swapping living room furniture with a neighbor who was away (Page A5). If the duo is convicted, Judge Buzz sentences them to 18 to 24 months of spending their weekends helping friends, acquaintances and
Uh-oh, better cut off Bill in Accounting: Office Christmas parties can turn into liability nightmares for employers if someone drinks too much and does or says something stupid, human resources experts say (Page A8). On the other hand, office Christmas parties without alcohol can be nightmares for employees who need a
Foundation. The grassroots group is leading the campaign to restore the off-white building. The entire project is estimated to cost $3.8 million. The group has already received a federal grant of $1.3 million for seismic retrofitting and other improvements, he said. “It’s part of our history,”
few stiff drinks to endure the things. He begs their pardon: Actor Mark Wahlberg has asked Massachusetts officials to pardon him for crimes he committed as a drug-addled teenager in 1988 (Short Takes, Page D4). Judge Buzz rules that Marky Mark deserves a pardon — but not for those underwear ads.
Man charged in wife’s burning
Don’t Know Much About History: On this day in 1964, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” aired for the first time on NBC (Today in History, Page D4). Parents, mark the milestone by popping “Rudolph” into the DVD player, setting the kids in front of the TV, and doing the laundry. — Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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