Everett Daily Herald, January 02, 2015

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First baby!

City Hall might move Stanwood city leaders plan a study to determine possible locations for a new campus that also could include the police department. By Kari Bray Herald Writer

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Jillian Britt was born at 3:41 a.m. on Jan. 1, at Providence Regional Medical Center, weighing 8 pounds, 11 ounces and measuring 19.5 inches long. She is the first recorded baby of the year in Snohomish County.

Snohomish County births ring out the old, ring in the new By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer

EVERETT — Jillian Britt is punctual. She showed up at 3:41 a.m. on her due date, Jan. 1, at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, becoming the first baby born in Snohomish County in 2015. Britt posted impressive stats: 8 pounds, 11 ounces; 19.5 inches. She is “a million-dollar baby,” her father, Michael Britt said. He and his wife, Sarah, have a 2-year-old son, William. “He wasn’t really that interested” when he met his sister, Sarah said, as Jillian happily dozed on her

hospital bed. It’s good she’ll have an older brother to watch out for her, said Michael. The Everett-native was born at city’s General Hospital, which later merged with Providence. The Marysville couple got stuck for about an hour on the Hewitt Avenue Trestle on their way to the hospital on Wednesday. But, Sarah said, she wasn’t worried. An ambulance was stuck in the same standstill traffic. “We would’ve been all right,” she said. The county’s last baby born in 2014 was on the other side of the floor in See BABY, back page, this section

Jared Alexander was born at 11:59 p.m. on New Year’s Eve at Providence Pavilion for Women and Children, weighing 7 pounds, 9 ounces and measuring 20 inches long. Jared was Snohomish County’s last recorded baby born in 2014.

STANWOOD — Leaders are looking to study possible locations for a new city campus that would move City Hall and the police department out of the downtown floodplain. Officials hope to have a preliminary cost estimate, site layout and work schedule by early April. They started seeking proposals from architectural firms in December to plan those details. However, the architects first must determine whether the city’s top two locations would be suitable for the campus, which would include both the City Hall and police department, city administrator Deborah Knight said. A feasibility study will look at factors like size, access and environmental concerns. City leaders are most interested in an undeveloped piece of property at 26820 Pioneer Highway, off Highway 532 near the Stanwood-Camano School District office and Stanwood Fire Station. The city’s second choice is in the same area, between the fire station and the Haggen shopping complex. “Before we go and buy something, it’s really important to do our due diligence,” Knight said. See MOVE, back page, this section

Evergreen branch of library restoring hours EVERETT — Starting next week, the Evergreen branch of the Everett Public Library will be expanding its hours of operation, including restoring

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eliminated the library’s popular Outreach Services, including the bookmobile. That yielded about $200,000 in savings for the city, which was trying to fill a $13 million budget deficit for 2015. “We looked at circulation

Electric Avenue I can drive 155: Tesla says a free software upgrade on two of its electric cars ­— the 85D and P85D ­— will allow the vehicles to reach top speeds of 155 mph, rather than the advertised 130 mph peg (Page A10). We had the same idea, but running the Tesla softCrossword . . . D4 Dear Abby . . . D5

figures and also looked at other things,” said Eileen Simmons, the library’s director. “The main library had a larger collection and more computers, so if only one building could remain open, then it made sense to have it here,” she said.

ware upgrade on your Dell computer running Windows 95 isn’t going to make it run any quicker. Mom’s investment banker always liked you best: The income gap between rich and poor Americans is probably most pronounced when siblings find themselves on either side of

Horoscope . . . B4 Lottery . . . . . . A2

Obituaries . . . A8 Opinion . . . . A11

the wealth divide, often fostering jealousy and disappointment among family members (Page A10). Just to let my siblings know, and in case they got one for Christmas, Mom says you have to share your Tesla if I ask nicely. (Hey, I’ll even tell you how to get the software upgrade, and I promise to plug it in when I’m done.) Short Takes . . D6 Sports . . . . . . D6

From Jan. 1-Nov. 30, 2014, the main library had 354,000 patrons and the Evergreen branch had 191,000 visitors. But that didn’t mean the loss of See LIBRARY, back page, this section

Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1974, President Richard Nixon signed legislation that imposed a nationwide 55 mph speed limit on highways (Today in History, Page D6). Forget Watergate; the 55 mph speed limit is what really brought down Nixon.

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