Everett Daily Herald, November 20, 2015

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PUD still at work on power Lake No firm estimates of when thousands will have juice turned back on

Stevens leaders sued The police commander says he’s being retaliated against because he supported an ex-sergeant who settled a claim against the department. By Rikki King Herald Writer

storm this year on Aug. 29, which knocked out power to 175,000 customers. No rain is in the immediate forecast, which will allow flooded lowlands to drain, but the weather is expected to turn cold, with nighttime temperatures dropping to lows in the upper 20s to mid30s through Sunday, said Johnny Burg, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

LAKE STEVENS — The Lake Stevens police commander has filed a lawsuit against the city, saying he is being wrongfully fired in violation of employment laws. Dennis Taylor, 53, is accusing city leaders of trying to ruin his reputation as retaliation for how he managed others in the workplace. The lawsuit names Mayor Vern Little and former city administrator Jan Berg as defendants. Little’s term ends this year, and he didn’t seek re-election. Berg resigned last week. City officials did not respond to a request for comment for this story. The lawsuit touches on a complicated situation at a police department that has tried to stay out of the news after a series of scandals in recent years. Taylor is second in command in the Lake Stevens department. The city hired him in November 2013, to help overhaul the police department. That came after a number of problems became public involving officer discipline and accountability. Taylor served in the U.S. Marine Corps for 15 years and has been in law enforcement for 20 years, including time as the Granite Falls police chief.

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Rob and Juanita Scharf sort through food stuffs at their home in Monroe during the continued power outage following Tuesday’s storm. A PUD crew member (below) works to restring power lines on the Tulalip Reservation on Thursday morning.

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TULALIP — Two days after a record wind and rainstorm, linemen worked to restore power to 28,000 customers still in the dark. As of Thursday afternoon, Snohomish County Public Utility District had no firm estimates of when electricity will be restored. About half the PUD’s 332,000 customers lost power Tuesday. The storm tied with the 1993 Inauguration Day storm as the PUD’s second-worst outage ever. The worst was the freak

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County can offer buyouts to all directly affected OSO — Snohomish County is now positioned to offer buyouts to all property owners directly affected by the Oso mudslide, now that a second federal grant has come through. County officials learned

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our congressional delegation,” County Executive John Lovick said in a statement. “We are fortunate to have so much support at the local, state and federal level.” The slide hit March 22, 2014, killing 43 people in the rural Steelhead Haven neighborhood and along Highway 530. The buyout area includes the

Talking turkey Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: On Food Network’s “Guy’s Big Bite,” host Guy Fieri is whipping up a Thanksgiving feast with turkey meatballs with fire-roasted green chiles (The Clicker, Page D6). We’re OK with nontraditional Thanksgiving food, Dear Abby. . . .D5 Horoscope . . . B5

approximate square mile hit by debris as well as surrounding areas at a high risk of flooding from the North Fork Stillaguamish River. The federal buyout grants should allow the county to make offers on 100 land parcels. Many property owners own several parcels each.

but if we bite into a meatball and find one platinum blond hair from Fieri’s spiky head, we’re outta there. There’s still an emissions issue to deal with: Volkswagen has two potential fixes for the fraudulent emission systems in its cars, but both are so costly it might be cheaper for VW to buy the

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cars back (Page A9). A cheaper third option would offer VW owners a horse and a harness to hitch their Jettas to. More Tofurky, Grandpa? The average cost of Thanksgiving dinner for most families is expected to top $50, mostly because of the increase in the price of turSports . . . . . . . C1 Stocks . . . . . .A10

“It will allow us to make offers to everyone we’ve identified in the updated flood plain for the slide area,” said Heather Kelly, the county employee coordinating long-term slide-recovery efforts. “They can choose to participate or not.” See OSO, Page A6

key caused by an outbreak of bird flu (Page A10). The cost of turkey has increased so much, that rather than giving two turkeys a presidential pardon for Thanksgiving, President Obama will pardon two Volkswagen executives and release them to a farm in New Hampshire.

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