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bands blow hot Seattle-areahb in Big Appleenw Roosevelt High School’s jazzididslall-ntogi’srouefHo band finished 2nd, andt Mountlake Terrace 3rd lastawruonight at the Essentially Elling-ton festival in New York City. Full story, B1 S N O H O M I S H C O U N T YA dispute between next-door Fire neighbors has escalated into chi fsallegations of theft, forgery, edog poisoning and figured top cityinto the disbanding of the Sultan Police Department. BY JONATHAN MARTIN pay listSeattle Times staff reporter 6D-FeIpGaUrtRmEeSnAtL’AsRstYaCffLiUngBGein-bghoutredblenraadhtnelyendthenotel,narohdasadnaelynsyetiDwehaldnHarvRayereaiew mloodtselonfeocveesrstiitmateescrashed, their new $12,000 Yamaha motorcycle. SBeYatBtlOeBTiYmOeUsNstGafAf rNeDpoJrUtSerTsIN MAYOThe 18-year-old thief was fine, but It pays — often quite handsomely the Harvies, who’d raised three boys — to be a Seattle Fire Department themselves, thought he needed to be deputychieforbattalionchielf.taughtalesson.Theycalledpoliceand lecTtlhoetfsiroefcohvieerftsi,mwe,howteyrpeiacamloyncgol6-6pressedcharges. cpitayyeexmcpeleodyeedesMwayhoorseMtiakkee-MhcoGmienn’sWhenhismother,CarolinePep-$164,000 salary, according to city perell,and Ray Harvie spoke a few days records. later, Harvie insisted she or her son pay Ofthe20highest-paidceityem-forthedamage.Pepperellrefused. Because their.yyeohlTppeuw4g1nu,sheeirfre chiefs. Some That was the last conversation be-overtime tween the Harvies and Caroline Pep-have salaries shifts last 24over $150,000 hours andand a handful for nearly six years. In that time, perell their wagesgaasatnodeisaziattsmeeutsprdbirehigtuhohotmometrenha are high, one$70,000 each involving three separate police investi-foovrearticmhieefstintinvoertime.FirefighetsrHitler’sg,seAcd-olfdaedoditno,saga have led the retary and allegations of forgery and can exceed crime. It led to the convic- organizedsurge in mem-$2,000.pihsniceht’ytisciesrofaixd-rengfuotoidieth,opcedatgnidnabbesr salary club. In 2002, just 210 out of of the Sultan Police Department and, in t1h0a,n169cityw00o.rkLearsstmademoreMarch,a$79,146judgmentaftera or21$p1e0rc0e,0ntofallcityyeaerm,2p,l3o0ye9es—Two very different gated homes near Echo Lake in rural Snohomish County are the scene of a bit-four-day jury trial. — topped $100,000 in pay.are seen with one of their mastiffs.ter feud between neighbors. Gayle and Ray Harvie, above, The feud has wreaked havoc on all meAnctc,omrdeidniagntoptahyeffoerdaerpaelrsgoonveirnn-Neighbor Caroline Pepperell lives in a yellow manufactured home.their lives. Pepperell was fired from her the Seattle area last year was job and faces possible bankruptcy. The Harvies have spent at least $300,000 $5T9,h9e0F0i.reDepartmentleadstheDifferent sides of the fence city in highest median pay, highest pursuing Pepperell, while Gayle Harvie pmeercdeianntaogveeortfiemmepplaoyy,eaensdmhaikgihnegst“Like a battle scenario ...”“Completely ridiculous.”has been treated for anxiety and panic more than $100,000 per year.RAY HARVIECAROLINE PEPPERELLattacks, according to court documents. Overtime received by the 34See> DISPUTE, A16 See> WAGES, A4 Game“sD,”abnygeLrooruasHeroic SEALs storm romance novels Leigh, is one ofThen there are those who want to know scripts. many romance‘TALL, DARK AND DANGEROUS’ “Whenwhat it might be like to, well, “be” with something like this happens, it is one. n nSoEveAlLscwhiatrhaNctaevrsyElite commandos capturetm,reheorFhetrirpteEnnuieqrllaicepSsesunasioseerivyvaNfgoiotgas”Gdiheb,eguan,sen-ailChasroataHoirdeti flutSEAL romance novels. There’s the “Tall, braciPanusgbtlhfioserheharesrfloauersre.-gnhetirsaseartlaswelneLdabnisamastOroriter Edition,Dark and Dangerous” series by Suzanne the Ontario-basedSpeueb>liSsEhAeLrSs,yAn-17 Brockmann or the “Tempting Seals” books by Lora Leigh. priytcohfeSsEaAnLd-thmeamneud-BY ANNYS SHINThe appeal of a clean-cut SEAL in theNot easySEtoALfi-snpdotthteinmgon their The Washington Postland of “lace-wristed dukes” and long-tshceriepltistefofillgohwteirnsg’ hairedEver since an elite unit of Navy SEALs Fabios is simple.home ground> A17 ful readers, Navy SEALs are superhe-stormed a Pakistan compound and killed “For sucacgesasinstmOissioan without the spandex,” said Pamela roesOsama bin Laden, people can’t getSe ttl2101iTeme.soC biLsaademn.enough of SEALs. There are some who White, a journalist and romance novelista60% of our nwant to know what it’s like to be one, and whose pen name is Pamela Clare.newsprint others who want to know what it takes to Publishers are bracing for a flurry ofnidna,skcoaintfdelrebirsncyce L O R A L E I G H . C O Mbecome one. SEAL-themed pitches and manu- Navyare reused.75 9 4 2 3 2 0 0 0 3 Porcello Is Buying Now! GUARANTEED TO MEET OR BEAT ANYBODY’S PRICE! 10222 NE 8th St., Bellevue 98004 Monday - Saturday 10am-5pm Porcello Estate Buyers425-454-2300 www.porcelloestatebuyers.com 2