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02.07.2016
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Port will move on old mill property Kimberly-Clark has faced litigation over cleanup and a failed sale; now the Port of Everett is anxious to acquire the site as ship volume grows. By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer
EVERETT — After years of watching the former KimberlyClark Corp. mill site sit dormant, the Port of Everett is moving to snatch up the 66-acre waterfront property. Port officials plan to ask port commissioners Tuesday to sign off on acquiring the land “by any means necessary,” Port CEO Les Reardanz said. “Any means necessary” includes condemning the property and taking control through a method called eminent domain. Reardanz said he wants to avoid such a heavy-handed approach. “Hopefully, we will reach a purchase and sales agreement with Kimberly-Clark,” Reardanz said. But “we are very serious about acquiring the property for port purposes,” he said. The former mill site is in the middle of the port’s marine terminals. Last year, 195 cargo ships moved 422,488 tons of goods through Everett’s waterfront. That was the highest number of ships since 2000, the most recent year for which data are immediately
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Sidney Oie listens as her daughter, Heather Oie, recalls the night of the murders at the Barn Door Tavern, which Sidney and her husband, Ken Oie, owned in the 1980s.
A life sentence — but whose life?
The dark night 35 years ago remains in sharp focus for a family fighting to keep a killer in prison By Rikki King Herald Writer
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Timothy Pauley during his parole board hearing in January.
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EVERETT — After 35 years, she had 20 minutes to speak. Sidney Oie didn’t get to pick the date. Her invitation had the wrong name and address. She wanted the people making decisions on a prisoner’s freedom to understand how his actions one night 35 years ago changed the rest of her life. In June 1980, two men burst into a tavern Oie owned near SeaTac. She and her husband had worked the lunch shift and headed home. Hours later, three
people were murdered at the bar, and two more were left for dead, with cords wrapped around their necks. One of the killers, Timothy Pauley, admitted he shot two men. At 22, he was sent to prison with the possibility of serving life. After 34 years, he is being considered for release, perhaps as early as 2018. Oie is 73 now and living with her daughter in Everett. That’s 16 miles from the prison in Monroe where Pauley is an inmate in medium security. For decades, Oie has written the state, asking that Pauley and his accomplice, Scott Smith,
never be released. The people whom they killed were her employees and friends, people she loved. She and her husband eventually lost the business they’d worked to build. Until last year, her letters went unanswered. ••• The state’s Indeterminate Sentence Review Board oversees some 3,200 inmates who were imprisoned before the sentencing reforms of the 1980s. The board also oversees sex offenders who face the prospect of lifelong See SENTENCE, Page A6
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