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Game of tags
End of the road
Vandals target public property as fast as state can cover it up
Early car chase ends with arrest of four in car, including parents of infant on board
By CAROL LADWIG
School’s out in the Valley: Last day celebrations Page 7
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Celebrate Independence Day, Carnation style Page 9
INDEX Opinion 4 On the Scanner 5 13 Puzzles Classifieds 15-18 19 Calendar
Vol. 102, No. 6
What takes almost a month to happen in North Bend happens almost daily in Seattle. That’s probably no surprise, but the same is true for Renton, Everett and Auburn — it can happen overnight in areas in each of these cities. It’s graffiti, specifically, graffiti that lands on freshly painted abutments, walls or any other surface that is visible to the public, plus some that aren’t. “It’s on the bridges, it’s on anything that’s concrete, it’s on the signs,” said Brian, who asked to omit his last name, both out of concern for reprisals and because he’d admitted to doing something illegal, technically.
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A Bridge Tender uses special paint, which matches the concrete of a bridge abutment, tocover up graffiti. The state’s Department of Transportation dedicates four full-time staffers and a budget of nearly $400,000 annually to fight graffiti on state-owned property. “People can be cited for The North Bend man is he did about a month ago, unlikely to get arrested for but the letter of the law dic- trespassing,” said Harmony painting over offensive graf- tates that he was trespassing Weinberg, spokesperson for fiti on an overpass on the on state property when he Snoqualmie Valley Trail as did it. SEE GRAFFITI, 3
Joyful portrait Rebecca Orcutt painting chosen for international portrait competition North Bend artist Rebecca Orcutt, 22, was in London last week, for the opening of a show featuring her work in the National Portrait Gallery. Her portrait, “What Now” was selectCourtesy Photo ed for the 2015 BP Portrait Award show, which opened June 18 at the gallery. Rebecca Orcutt and her portrait subject, Andrew Farley, get silly when posing for photos with her painting, center, which was selected for the 2015 Portrait Award Show in SEE PORTRAIT, 2 London’s National Portrait Gallery
Two men and two women in a car with an infant were arrested early Monday after an incident that began in North Bend and ended on a dead-end road following a chase down the freeway and through Issaquah. Snoqualmie Police Officer Richard Cary was patrolling at the North Bend Premium Outlets mall at 11:30 p.m. Sunday, when he noticed a suspicious vehicle. He began following the vehicle, to monitor it, according to city of Snoqualmie spokesperson Joan Pliego, in a press release Monday morning. The vehicle suddenly sped off toward the Interstate-90 on ramp, without any sort of signal from the police, Pliego said, and took the westbound onramp at high speed. Cary pursued and called in assistance from King County’s Guardian 1 helicopter, as well as the county’s tactical (SWAT) team. SEE CHASE, 3
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