Suggests hovercraft ferry for island
\n(Bellingham Herald © 04/11/2011)
With all the controversy about the Lummi Island ferry situation with Lummi Nation, has anyone ever considered a hovercraft-type ferry? \n\n They travel over most any waters, rough or calm. They are fast with virtually no wake. The cost for building landin");
document.write("gs is quite cheap compared to conventional landings and, considering the talk for the need of a new and larger ferry for the island, probably not ...\n
Whatcom County to hold hearing on public-participation plan
\n(Bellingham Herald © 04/11/2011)
Whatcom County wants the public to participate in updating a plan that, well, cover");
document.write("s public participation.\n\n The county has drafted updates to a public-participation plan spelling out which proposed zoning and growth policy changes will get more robust public processes and which will get a minimum.\n\n The county's Planning Commission will hold a hearing on the updates Thursday, April 14.\n\n Under...\n
Final preparations under way for second ");
document.write("homeless shelter
\n(Bremerton Kitsap Sun © 04/11/2011)
BREMERTON ?\nIt was last July when Kitsap County Health District chief Scott Lindquistcalled an emergency meeting of social-service leaders to deal of a growing number of homeless people.\n\nSince then, services have been brought to the group of tenters living in the woods off Highway 303 and McWilliams Road. An indoor tent city for families, Sally's Camp, was set up. And now a second shelter for fam...\n
Port Orchard City Council denies billboard developer's appeal
\n(Bremerton Kitsap Sun © 04/11/2011)
PORT ORCHARD ?\nThe \na.inline_topic:hover {\n background-color: #EAEAEA;\n}\n\nPort Orchard City Council has denied an appeal by the owner of a Gig Harbor advertising company who wanted to erect eight billboards within city limits.\n\nRick Engley, owner of Gotcha Covered Media, had hoped to place billboards as tall as 35 feet along Sedgwick ");
document.write("Road, Mile Hill Drive and Highway 16.\n\nMason County officials ne...\n
Expiring Stadium Tax Could be Extended
\n(KCPQ TV Fox Q13 © 04/11/2011)
Every year, the White River Valley Museum in Auburn relies on annual grants to help fill gaps in its operating budget, and put on programs for students.\n\nIt might be hard make a connection");
document.write(" between a museum like this to our sports stadiums in Seattle, but there is one thanks to a 1997 voter approved a tourism tax. \n\nThat tax on hotels, rental cars and restaurants in King County helped pay for ...\n
Wahkiakum appraiser fired, will be replaced by two clerical positions
\n(Longview Daily News © 04/11/2011)
Faced");
document.write(" with a stack of more than 100 property assessment appeals,\nWahkiakum County Assessor Bill Coons laid off his only appraiser\nlast week and will replace him with two full-time clerks.\n\n \n\nAt their Tuesday meeting, Wahkiakum County commissioners\napproved the personnel move, which will shift a current half-time\nclerk position to full-time and will allow Coons to hire a second\nclerk.\n\n \n\n\"Essenti...\n
EYE ON OLYMPIA: Peninsula lawmakers back 'painful' budget
\n(Peninsula Daily News © 04/11/2011)
OLYMPIA — Two North Olympic Peninsula lawmakers have defended the House’s two-year state budget, calling it a package of difficult but necessary cuts. \n\n Sequim Democrats Kevin Van De Wege and Steve Tharinger voted for the budget Saturday, which includes $4.4 billion in cuts. \n\n The state Senate will introduce its proposed 2011-2013 budget this week. Both versions will have to be recon...\n
Hot, dry weather stokes raging Texas wildfires
\n(Seattle Post Intelligencer © 04/11/2011)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) ? Firefighters on Sunday continued battling out-of-control wildfires scorching nearly 400 square miles across the state, including a West Texas blaze that narrowly missed a historic frontier Army cavalry fort and a top astronomical research fa");
document.write("cility.A fast-moving wildfire had spread to more than 60,000 acres Sunday in Jeff Davis County and destroyed about 40 homes in Fort Da...\n
Kirkland Police arrest Bothell man in connection with armed robbery, burglaries in Kirkland
\n(Seattle Post Intelligencer © 04/11/2011)
Kirkland Police have arrested a Bothell man in connect");
document.write("ion with an armed robbery that occurred in Kirkland in February, and two burglaries committed in Kirkland's annexation area. See photo \n\nThe man was charged with first degree robbery, unlawful possession of firearms and burglary. He is currently being held on $250,000 bail at the King County Jail. \n\nThe armed robbery occurred on Feb. 27...\n
Texas batt");
document.write("ling wildfires fueled by heat, wind
\n(Seattle Post Intelligencer © 04/11/2011)
DALLAS (AP) ? Out-of-control wildfires in Texas have scorched nearly 400 square miles and destroyed dozens of homes as hot, windy conditions fuel the blazes.One fast-moving wildfire in West Texas had spread to more than 60,000 acres Sunday in Jeff Davis County and destroyed about 40 homes in Fort Davis before it raged north and east.\"It was unbelievable, just horrific. There were horses on fire, b...\n
Sprinker ice arena to close for repairs
\n(Tacoma News Tribune © 04/11/2011) (Registration Required)\n
She’s a faded jewel. A dowager who’s preserved her dignity as the grand dame of Pierce County recreation. But even her most polite supporters aren’t shy about saying publicly she needs a face lift. \n\nCosmetics just won’t do anymore.\n\nSo come May 17, the Sprin");
document.write("ker Recreation Center ice arena is to shut down for a six-month, $6.1 million overhaul.\n\nPrograms for the arena&rsquo...\n
Homestead troubles, medical marijuana co-op among week's top stories
\n(Bellingham Herald © 04/10/2011)
THE BELLINGHAM HERALD\n\n Here are the top local news stories of the past week from The Bellingham Hera");
document.write("ld:\n\n CHARGES LAID AGAINST HOMESTEAD\n\n Washington state regulators have levied charges against Homestead Northwest and its CEO, Jim Wynstra, that could spell the end for the Lynden development company.\n\n The Securities Division of the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions plans ...\n
State expected, measured low radiation from Japan
\n(Bellingham Herald © 04/10/2011)
On Friday, March 11, Japan suffered a devastating earthquake and tsunami. As a public health physician, I've been involved with local earthquake and tsunami planning and exercises. My heart went out to the people in Japan, who face huge losses and the challenges of rebuilding their lives and communities. \n\n I thought hard about how we would respond to an event of this magnitude. Then came the rep...\n
Kitsap's tall ship Lavengro may be leaving Brownsville
\n(Bremerton Kitsap Sun © 04/10/2011)
BROWNSVILLE ?\nKitsap County's official tall ship, the Schooner Lavengro, may be leaving her home at the Brownsville Marina for a different port by the end of the month.\n\nBrownsville port commissioners informed the group of volunteers maintaining the boat that if it did not finish the necessary steps required by the U.S. Coast Guard to receive a certificate of inspecti");
document.write("on, the boat would need to sta...\n
A spring-cleaning party
\n(Columbian © 04/10/2011)
About 20 people gathered Saturday morning at Columbia River High School in Hazel Dell before donning orange vests and hitting the streets, armed with spray bottles of cleaning solution, gloves, buckets of paint and paint rollers.\n\n\nThe object");
document.write("ive? To clean up graffiti along 99th Street, just one of many spots inside and outside of Vancouver city limits where graffiti has become increasingly common....\n
Timber funds for schools may stay
\n(Columbian © 04/10/2011)
To the pleasant surprise of a Skamania County official, the U.S. House Republican budget for 2012 reauth");
document.write("orizes a program that funnels federal money to Skamania and other rural counties that were hit by sharp reductions in federal timber sales beginning in the early 1990s. \n\n\nSkamania County Commissioner Paul Pearce sent a note home from Washington, D.C., on Thursday, reporting that the House budge...\n
Motorcycle group tries for June event
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document.write("(Ellensburg Daily Record © 04/10/2011)
ELLENSBURG?An event that was forced to move out of Kittitas\nCounty in the 1990s will be back this June if its organizers meet\nthe conditions set this week by the Kittitas County\ncommissioners.\n \n \n\nABATE (A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments) of\nWashington submitted a special event application to have its annual\nSpring Opener at the Silver Ridge Ranch near Easton. ABATE is a\nnonprofit ...\n
Recent disasters a grim reminder of dangers in our area
\n(Everett Herald © 04/10/2011)
A strong earthquake in Everett's back yard could knock out highways to the north and east, topple older buildings and send 6-foot-tall waves crashing into the shoreline.\n\nIn the aftermath, staying warm, eating regular meals and maintaining basic hygiene could pose a huge challenge. Imagine living a week or longer without power, without running water or without being able to drive ");
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Plans for SuperCars production plant to be presented at Benton County commissioners meeting
\n(Kennewick Tri City Herald © 04/10/2011)
West Richland officials and the owner of Shelby SuperCars plan to roll out a vision for a new automobile manufacturing facility at Monday's Benton County commissioners mee");
document.write("ting.\n\nThey also hope to make a good enough impression to rally up to $1.5 million in private capital investment money needed to capture a state grant of almost $830,000.\n\nShelby SuperCars, whose signature Ultimate Aero set a wor...\n
King County Council approves a 'till the soil' garden plan
\n(Kent Reporter © 04/10/2011)
The ");
document.write("King County Council aproved a plan that would create partnerships between the county and community groups that want to ?till the soil.?\n\n\nThe County?s Community Garden Program Implementation Plan would give community groups access to county parcels that they would manage and cultivate for gardens.\n\n\n?Throughout King County people are recognizing the health, environmental, and financial bene...\n
Paige Dunn is building her own village of moms
\n(Kent Reporter © 04/10/2011)
There?s that saying, ?It takes a village to raise a child,? and as Paige Dunn found out, having a village around you is just as important for the mom.\n\n\nDunn, who had worked as an actress before having her son Hayden in August 2009, lives with her husband Reagan ? who is a King County councilman who represents the Ninth District which includes Covington and Maple Valley ? just outside of Mapl...\n
Catching up with ?Baby Tamia'
\n(Longview Daily News © 04/10/2011)
CHICAGO ? Watching this sunny 6-year-old romp with her dog, it's\ndifficult to envision her at the center of a dark story that\ndominated headlines for weeks.\n\n \n\n\"Baby Tamia\"???as she became known???is now a bright, chatty,\naffectionate, 40-pound ball of energy. The peaceful domesticity\nunfolding at her H");
document.write("yde Park home is light-years from the noisy\ncustody battle that began in December 2004, when he...\n
Clallam shoreline plan forums start Monday
\n(Peninsula Daily News © 04/10/2011)
The first in a series of forums in Port Angeles, Sekiu, Joyce and Sequim on Clallam County’s Shoreline Master Program will be Monday. \n\n Coun");
document.write("ty-hired consultants with ESA Adolfson of Seattle will gather ideas from the public about how to update the Clallam County Shoreline Master Program, which was adopted in the mid-1970s. \n\n The state Department of Ecology requires all cities and 39 counti...\n
Lines to shift for Clallam commissioner districts
\n(Peninsula Daily News © 04");
document.write("/10/2011)
Boundaries will shift for all three commissioner districts in Clallam County, effective in 2012, and the lines are likely to be redrawn somewhere between McDonald Creek in the east and Dry Creek in the west. \n\n That information will be presented, with more detail, during this week's first public forum on realignment of Districts Nos. 1, 2 and 3, said Don Corson, one of the districting masters resp...\n
Potential housing project discussed during forum in Port Townsend
\n(Peninsula Daily News © 04/10/2011)
PORT TOWNSEND — A potential affordable housing project was discussed during a housing forum that drew 100 people last week. \n\n Panel members talked about developing more affordable housing in East Jefferson County at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall on Thursday night. \n\n Panel member Judy Surber, a Port Townsend city planner, mentioned that three small city-owned plots that.");
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Constantine campaign consultant gets $60k county contract (Seattle Times)
\n(Seattle Post Intelligencer © 04/10/2011)
Some Republicans are objecting to King County Executive Dow Constantine awarding a $60,000 consulting contract to Christian Sinderman, the campaign guru who ran Constantine’s 2009 bid for executive, T");
document.write("he Seattle Times’ Keith Ervin reports.\n\n\nConstantine’s deputy, Fred Jarrett, said Sinderman presented the best -? and most affordable – plan to the county for communications he...\n
Alone, broke and target of profiteers
\n(Seattle Times © 04/10/2011) (Registration Required)\n
Alan steps");
document.write(" tentatively across the hill of trash in his living room, steadying himself against a tower of books as newspapers, plastic bags and clothes slip and slide beneath his boots.\n\n\nHe follows his flashlight down a darkened hallway toward the bathroom and describes how he has lived for nearly three years without running water.\n\n\nThe city of Seattle recently shut off his electricity, too, turn...\n
Campaign consultant for Constantine wins $60K county contract
\n(Seattle Times © 04/10/2011) (Registration Required)\n
The campaign consultant who helped Dow Constantine win election as King County executive is working for Constantine again, this time under a $60,000 consulting contract with the county.\n\n\nIt's Christian Sinderman's second county contract since Constantine was elected in November 2009. The first, awarded without competitive bidding, paid Sinderman $20,000 to write a communication plan and");
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No word yet on federal funding for a new fireboat for South Whidbey
\n(South Widbey Record © 04/10/2011)
They?re still waiting to hear about a new fireboat, but the budget shortfall is under control and a new name is on the horizon, Island County Fire District 3 Chief Rusty Palmer said this week.\n\n\nThree months ");
document.write("into 2011, the district still hasn?t heard from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) about a $210,000 grant for a larger, more durable fireboat, Palmer said.\n\n\nHe said the district i...\n
In brief: ?Deadliest Catch? has area captain
\n(Spokesman Review © 04/10/2011)
PENDLETON, Ore. ? One of the fresh faces on Discover");
document.write("y Channel?s ?Deadliest Catch? is billed as a take-no-prisoners captain possessing youth, steely confidence and a fast-paced fishing style. One of Captain Scott Campbell Jr.?s mottos is ?Leave no crab behind.? \n \n\nCampbell, who spent much of his boyhood in the landlocked city of Milton-Freewater, Ore., captains the Seabrooke, a speedy vessel ...\n
Out & Ab");
document.write("out: Fishing reports coming Thursday
\n(Spokesman Review © 04/10/2011)
OUTLOOK ? Fishing 2011, The Spokesman-Review?s annual update on fishing prospects, rules and opportunities throughout the Inland Northwest, will be inserted in the Thursday paper. \n \n\nThe tabloid includes a map of all the fishing lakes and streams in the region, including the game fish species they hold.\n Troll for local info at fly-fishing event\n\n OUTLEARN ? The public is invited t...\n
Stadium tax bill resurrected
\n(Tacoma News Tribune © 04/10/2011) (Registration Required)\n
Here are recent posts from The News Tribune’s Political Buzz blog. For the inside scoop on government and politics, go online to blog.thenewstribune.com/politics. \n\nWe often write about deadlines in the Legislature. The self-imposed cutoffs are created to narrow down the number of issues as the s");
document.write("ession progresses and help the Legislature adjourn on time.\n\nIn the final weeks of session, only ...\n
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