Fierce on the court
This week’s watchwords
Girl Athlete of 2014 a leader for Lynnwood
VOTE: The Everett City Council is scheduled
to vote Wednesday on a set of ordinances that would raise $6.5 million in new taxes and fees.
SCHOOL: In most local districts, classes will end for the summer this week.
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SEAHAWKS: Team minicamp
starts Tuesday, and questions are swirling about whether Marshawn Lynch will skip it because he wants a new contract.
STRAWBERRY: The annual Marysville
Strawberry Festival will be in full swing starting Thursday, and the berries are right on schedule.
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Court to hear Paine Field challenge Mukilteo, Edmonds and Save Our Communities claim that passenger service at the airport would bring noise, traffic and pollution to the surrounding areas. By Noah Haglund Herald Writer
SEATTLE — A court hearing this week could chart the path for passenger flights out of Paine Field.
At issue is a federal aviation study from late 2012 concluding that noise, traffic and pollution from commercial jets would not harm nearby communities. Mukilteo is leading a group of opponents challenging the
decision at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. If they prevail, the Federal Aviation Administration would have to perform more analysis, which could further delay, or even stop, efforts to start up commercial service from Snohomish County to destinations such as Las Vegas and Hawaii. “We think that commercial air service at Paine Field would have a significant impact on our community,” Mukilteo Mayor Jennifer
Gregerson said. “We hope that the court will agree and will make the FAA redo their environmental assessment.” A hearing is scheduled Wednesday in Seattle before a three-judge panel. A decision could take months. Joining Mukilteo in the appeal are the city of Edmonds and Save Our Communities, a group of residents opposed to commercial air service. Their appeal was filed in
Inspiring higher learning
Voyager teacher helps students believe they can go to college
January 2013. Two airlines since 2008 have actively sought permission to fly from the Snohomish County Airport, though one has all but lost interest. The FAA study, three years in the making, was based on the number of flights the airlines said they wanted to operate. Allegiant Air of Las Vegas originally proposed four flights per See PAINE, Page A6
Ads urge parents have talk about pot By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
prep curriculum she designed this year. Located in south Everett, Voyager provides free and reduced-price lunches to a majority of its students. Jordan says 86 percent of her seventh-graders come from families where no one has gone to college. The purpose of “Believe” is to get these kids thinking — at a very young age — about the value of higher education. “It’s not that they can’t do it, it’s that
The state Department of Health is running radio ads urging parents to talk with their children about marijuana and Washington’s law allowing its legal use by adults. The 30-second commercials last week began airing throughout the state and will run through the end of the month. They mark the launch of a public education and awareness campaign by the agency on all aspects of the law legalizing the growing, processing and selling marijuana by those 21 years and older. The state agency is spending $200,000 to run the spots produced by the Washington Traffic Safety Commission and featuring Dr. Leslie Walker of Seattle Children’s Hospital. “Essentially, we’ve tried to hit nearly everywhere in the state with radio reception,” media relations manager Donn Moyer wrote in an email. The agency also is buying $200,000 worth of banner ads for digital media. Those ads will start appearing on Internet sites today, he said. The voter-approved initiative establishing a legal pot industry requires the Department of Health to manage a comprehensive marijuana education and public health program. The media
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them that higher education is in their future. “I don’t want to hear, ‘I can’t,’” Jordan, 42, told her class. “You decide if you can do it. You decide.” Last week, Jordan’s students graduated from the “Believe” program, a college
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EVERETT — Annamarie Jordan is on a mission to get kids to college. The walls of her Voyager Middle School classroom are plastered with university logos, drawn with colored pencils and markers by seventh-graders. The students were tasked with picking a school they want to attend one day, and these pictures hang overhead to remind
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Growing Paine What’s that you say? The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing a challenge by opponents of commuter airline service at Paine Field. “We think that commercial air service at Paine Field would have a significant impact on our community,” said Mukilteo’s mayor (above). Dear Abby. . . . B3 Good Life . . . . B1
Sorry, could you repeat that? We couldn’t hear your concerns about commuter jets, what with all the noise from Boeing’s 787s, 777s and 747s already taking off and landing at Paine Field. This is your brain on hypocrisy: The state Department of Health is running radio ads that urge parents
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to talk with their children about the state law that legalizes marijuana except for those under 21 (above). Our advice: Telling your kids not to smoke pot will likely fall on more receptive ears if you’re not holding a joint or a highball glass. Throat clearing: County officials in Virginia have voted Sports . . . . . . . C1 TV . . . . . . . . . . B4
to allow the demolition of the parking garage where “Deep Throat” provided details of the Watergate scandal to two Washington Post reporters (Page A2). It’s just as well; garage attendants blush and stammer when asked to explain what the bronze plaque means by “Deep Throat leaked here.”
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Annamarie Jordan talks to seventh-grader Yuliana Janda about her plans for college, which include attending the Art Institute of Seattle to become a photographer.
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