City: Water quality in Port Gardner Bay back to normal following sewage spill

The water quality in Port Gardner Bay has returned to normal and warning signs near the water are coming down, the city of Everett announced on Friday afternoon.

The announcement comes a week after 50,000 gallons of raw sewage got into the bay following a failure at Lift Station 1 early on January 20. The sewage spilled into the bay in the hour between the failure of the lift station and the repairs being made to get it operational again.

Water samples taken earlier this week have shown that the water quality in the bay has returned to normal, city spokesperson Kate Reardon said. That means the warning signs on the beaches and the marinas on the bay have been taken down.

It is believed that a series of power surges led to the lift station failure on the 20th. Reardon said that city crews and crews from Snohomish County PUD are looking to see if there was a way to avoid the surges, which happened during the midst of last week's snowstorms.

 

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UPDATE: 2 injured in house fire SW of Silver Lake

UPDATE: 2 injured in house fire SW of Silver Lake

Two people have been severely injured in a house fire southwest of Silver Lake on Friday afternoon.

The fire was first reported around 1:30 p.m. on the 11900 block of Nels Peters Road. Crews from Snohomish County Fire District 1 arrived to find smoke pouring from the home. They were able to get the fire out in the manufactured home in around 30 minutes.

Two people, a man and a woman in their 40s, were taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for treatment of severe burns.

Crews were expected to stay at the home through the afternoon putting out hot spots and looking for a cause. The damage to the home and contents is estimated at $130,000.

EPD looking for man who robbed bank near Everett Mall

EPD looking for man who robbed bank near Everett Mall

Everett Police are looking for a man who robbed a bank near Everett Mall at gunpoint last Friday.

EPD spokesman Robert Goetz said that the man walked into the Bank of Washington on Everett Mall Way late on Friday afternoon, displayed a handgun and demanded money. Once he got it, he took off on foot.

Police arrived soon after, but a search of the area turned up nothing. No one was injured in the robbery.

Goetz said the man is decribed as a white male in his 40s, 5-10, 230 pounds, with short hair and a receding hairline. He was wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt, dark pants and a ski mask that partially hid his face.

Anyone with information on the robber is asked to call the Everett Police Tips Line at 425-257-8450 or Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477).

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Seattle Police help bring down drug ring stretching to San Francisco

Seattle Police help bring down drug ring stretching to San Francisco

Twenty people are in custody following a lengthy investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and Seattle Police Department into a cocaine, meth and heroin trafficking ring that stretched from San Francisco to Vancouver, Canada.

Investigators allege the conspirators brought multi-kilo loads of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine into the Seattle area from California and distributed it throughout Western Washington and Canada.

The following defendants have been charged with various federal crimes including conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and/or conspiracy to engage in money laundering:

  • Juan Gomez-Diaz, 37, Des Moines
  • Dagoberto Herrera-Avila, 37, Sea-Tac
  • Jose Rodriguez-Rivera, 38, Lynnwood
  • Juan Siquiero-Gonzalez, 33, Federal Way
  • Luis Orozco-Lopez, 21, Sedro-Woolley
  • Uriel Amin Martinez-Botello, 31, Everett
  • Hugo Gomez-Barrada, 29, Seattle
  • Lorenzo Rodriguez-Rivera, 35, Mountlake Terrace
  • Elmer Alvarez-Ochoa, 39, Lynnwood
  • Ramon Barrera, 35, Mountlake Terrace
  • Pedro Lopez, 38, Seattle
  • Jose Rodriquez-Lujan, 36, Kent
  • Mario Gamiz-Yescas, 33, Kirkland
  • Gerson Fletes-Ramos, 30, Shoreline
  • Javier Cabrera-Arteaga, 26, Shoreline
  • Manuel Mejia-Garay, 32, Seattle
  • Enrique Munoz-Andres, 32, Pacific
  • Timothy Rishor, 36, Edmonds
  • Joshua Abellera, 37, Shoreline
  • Mayra Mendez-Rodriguez, 28, Mountlake Terrace

SHD offering free whooping cough shots on February 4

SHD offering free whooping cough shots on February 4

The increase of whooping cough (pertussis) in Snohomish County has led the Snohomish Health District set up two clinics where vaccines will be distributed.

The district will be hosting the Tdap clinics on February 4 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Snohomish Health District at 3020 Rucker Avenue in Everett and the Sea Mar Community Health Center at 9710 State Avenue in Marysville. Around 450 shots will be available between the two sites, thanks to a $14,000 grant from The Everett Clinic Foundation.

While the shots will be free, an advance appointment is strongly recommended. Those can be made by calling 425-388-5088 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. from January 30 to February 3. A few walk-in shots will be available, but that appointment would be the best bet.

The health district is hoping to attract pregnant women in their third trimester and those who are in close contact with newborns, infants, young children and pregnant women.

Dremousis leaves SCC to be new men's soccer coach at Trinity Lutheran

Dremousis leaves SCC to be new men's soccer coach at Trinity Lutheran

George Dremousis has resigned as the head men's soccer coach at Shoreline Community College for the same position at Everett's Trinity Lutheran College.

Dremousis leaves SCC after 11 years as their head coach and 12 years at the school. The Dolphins finished third in the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges (NWAACC) in 2010, but had slumped to a 2-16-1 record in 2011.

Trinity Lutheran, which plays in the West Region of the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA), finished the 2011 season with a 12-5-1 record, losing in the West Region semifinals in California. They play home games at various fields around the area, including Clark Park in north Everett, Everett Memorial Stadium, Lake Stevens High School and Cavalero Mid-High School in Lake Stevens.

Dremousis will be at the helm when the Eagles start their spring schedule on March 17 against Corban University in at St. Martin's College in Lacey.