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Paine Field has steadily evolved from a Depression-era project to a military base to an aerospace hub. Now, prospects for a research lab and passenger air service could reshape it yet again.
District tackling special ed issues After turmoil last year, the Marysville School District has hired three new leaders to run the program. By Chris Winters Herald Writer
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Les Smith pilots his Cessna Cardinal above Paine Field in Everett on Thursday. The airport and surrounding land are a major economic hub.
By Dan Catchpole and Noah Haglund Herald Writers
EVERETT — When Boeing moved to Paine Field nearly 50 years ago, it was one of the few houses on the block. Since then, the airport and surrounding land have become a hub of manufacturing and a major economic engine for the region. Most of the trees and open fields are gone, replaced by high-tech production, repair and research facilities. Boeing has been the center of the core, but potential changes on the horizon could bring new
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economic diversity to Paine Field. Public and higher education officials are trying to develop a research lab to lead the way into manufacturing’s future — composite materials — on vacant land on the west side of the county airport. Private investors want to build a small terminal at Paine Field for commercial passenger flights. That’s a prospect even some die-hard opponents now say they’d be hard-pressed to stop. Meanwhile, Boeing is expanding its Everett facility for See CHANGE, Page A4
MARYSVILLE — Students with special needs and their parents can expect to see some new faces this fall in the Marysville School District. The district made changes to the Learning Support Services program over the past year, and this summer hired three new directors to take over the program. It is hoped that returning special education students will find classrooms that are safer and more conducive to learning and that teachers and assistants will be better prepared to teach and manage classrooms of students with a wide variety of needs. Parents will also find a department and district administration that is more transparent and receptive to their needs, Superintendent Becky Berg said. “The clear purpose of what we do is to raise student achievement and have kids find their niche and find their passion,” Berg said. For special education students, achieving those goals requires extra attention. In Washington state, students may be tracked into a special education program for any one of 13 different criteria, such as See DISTRICT, Page A6
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Construction superintendent W.D. Hewitt stands at the site of the future Snohomish County Airport in 1936, the year it was built as a Works Progress Administration project.
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