This week’s watchwords State budget
Fireworks
NHL draft
It’s still a standoff and if the House and Senate can’t agree by the end of the month, thousands of state employees will be temporarily laid off. Furlough notices could go out this week.
July 4th is around the corner and stands are opening around the county (including Boom City in Tulalip). Watch The Herald for local regulations.
It’s Friday and Saturday; Silvertips defenseman Noah Juulsen is expected to be an early-round pick, perhaps even a first-rounder.
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Second raft trip dropped The Stillaguamish River is too low but the guide of a controversial tour said he will return when the water is up. By Kari Bray Herald Writer
OSO — The Stillaguamish River is too low to risk a second
trip this summer past the site of the Oso mudslide, the guide of a controversial rafting tour said last week. Dave Button led one float trip
past the slide area June 7. He has 70 people on a waiting list to take his next tour, he said. He doesn’t expect it to be anytime soon. “The river’s too low and it’s not safe,” he said. “We will be going back when the water’s back up.”
That could be later this summer if it rains enough, or it could be next year, he said. A lawsuit filed in Snohomish County Superior Court on Wednesday aims to make sure the trips never happen again. See RAFT, Page A2
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MARYSVILLE — So how do you go from a Microsoft executive to the owner of a Harley-Davidson dealership? Scott Smernis just laughs. “Everybody wants to know that,” Smernis said. He’s the owner and dealer principal of Sound Harley-Davidson in Marysville, a dealership
that he built from the ground up. Before getting the dealership, Smernis was living in Kirkland, working as a consultant and a director of program management for Microsoft for about 10 years. A decade ago, he pondered a career switch. “I had decided I wanted to do something different that was more customer-focused,” he said. “Where I could have more direct involvement with the
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end customer.” And he had always wanted to own his own business. He had been riding Harleys for a few years and was viewing the Harley-Davidson company website when he saw the call to apply to own a dealership. About four months after he applied, the company got back to him. “They were interested in opening a dealership in
Early to bed The 6 o’clock news is over — it’s bedtime, young lady: Asked what to do about an 8-year-old girl’s frequent whining and emotional outbursts, parenting adviser John Rosemond recommends putting the girl to bed at 6:30 p.m. for 30 consecutive days (Living With Dear Abby. . . . B3 Horoscope . . . B6
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Children, Page B2). C’mon, dude: Nobody can go to bed that early — unless they’ve been listening to a Garrison Keillor monologue on “A Prairie Home Companion,” that is. Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1977, former Attorney General John Mitchell began
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Marysville,” he said. “I said, ‘Sure, where’s Marysville?’ I didn’t come up that way much.” There were 20 applicants. He was one of seven finalists invited to Milwaukee to present a business plan for the new dealership. “Well, I didn’t have a business plan,” he said. “I spent 24/7 for the next two weeks pulling together a business plan.”
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A murder charge was dropped against Anthony E. Garver, who has made no progress with attempts to restore his competency.
EVERETT — A young mother’s slaying in 2013 will go unprosecuted after state doctors concluded that the suspect remains too delusional to assist his lawyer. Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Matt Hunter recently was forced to drop the firstdegree murder charge against Anthony Garver, a man living with schizophrenia, who has been held at a state psychiatric hospital for more than a Anthony E. year. Garver, 2013 All attempts to restore Garver’s competency have failed. Doctors have tried numerous psychotropic medications but Garver, 27, continues to be delusional and paranoid. He reports hallucinations and claims he’s living in a parallel universe, court papers show. He hasn’t made any progress and doctors wrote that they are doubtful any additional treatment would affect his “delusional beliefs and psychotic symptoms.” Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Joseph Wilson last week dismissed the murder charge and ordered that Garver be held at the hospital for an evaluation, giving prosecutors time to file a petition to have Garver civilly committed at Western State Hospital. Prosecutors expect to be notified if he there is any change. “Our intention would be to refile the charge if he ever regains competency,” Snohomish County chief deputy prosecutor Joan Cavagnaro said. Garver is accused of repeatedly stabbing Phillipa Evans-Lopez,
Scott Smernis, who started Sound Harley-Davidson nine years ago, now splits his time between Marysville and the Florida Keys.
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serving a prison sentence for his role in the Watergate scandal (Today in History, Page B4). It would have been poetic justice had a certain appendage of Mitchell’s been caught in a wringer in the prison laundry. Cockroach TV: OK, the following is the most depressing Sports . . . . . . . C1 Your Photos . . B1
sentence The Buzz will write all week: Donald Trump’s long-running “Apprentice” series of reality TV shows might go on forever, says Emily Yahr of The Washington Post (Short Takes, Page B4). But take heart — The Donald’s presidential campaign can’t last forever, although it will surely feel that way.
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