Everett Daily Herald, January 26, 2015

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This week’s watchwords AG Hearings

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Obama nominee Loretta Lynch steps into the harsh glare of Senate scrutiny Wednesday and Thursday.

It’s a day shorter to accommodate the Seahawks, but the big show still runs through Jan. 31 at CenturyLink Field Events Center.

And can you imagine talking about anything else for the next few days? A Pete Carroll poster is in today’s Sports section, and our Super Bowl special section, packed with great Hawks stuff and information, runs Saturday.

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Fighting property crimes Detectives from 3 agencies have pooled their knowledge to catch serial burglars and thieves in a one-year pilot project. By Eric Stevick Herald Writer

MARYSVILLE — It took about an hour before Sgt. James Maples had what he describes as his first “Aha” moment.

It was the morning of Jan. 6. The veteran Marysville police officer was watching five detectives from three different agencies on their first morning working together. They were starting from

scratch, but it didn’t take long before they were bandying about suspect names and descriptions of different property crimes within their boundaries. They compared notes about MOs and suspicions about people crossing into different jurisdictions to plunder homes and vehicles. “It was eye opening,” Maples said.

Less than three weeks later, the new team has returned a prized possession stolen from a 10-year-old girl, a military commendation taken from a veteran and two pigs poached from an Arlington area farm. Arrests have been made and investigations are building. See CRIMES, Page A2

Carousing in Aquaterra

Crucial road remains closed Access to the popular recreation areas at Spada Lake was greatly limited after flooding earlier this month, and fixing it will top $300K. By Rikki King Herald Writer

Medieval Faire in Monroe brings out the lords and ladies of An Tir Herald writer

The weekend brought a little bit of the 17th century to the Evergreen State Fairgrounds. Lords and ladies, barons and baronesses and a good number of merchants held

the Ursulmas Medieval Faire in the fairgrounds, performing archery, medieval combat, thread spinning and more. All the people running the fair are members of the Society for Creative Anachronism, a group that started in Berkeley, California, and now has more

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than 30,000 members all over the world. Different areas are divided into kingdoms; Washington, Oregon, part of Idaho and parts of Canada make up the “kingdom” of An Tir. Aquaterra, also known as Snohomish County, is one of the baronies of An Tir.

Al’s Diner Don’t quit your day jobs: Al Pacino and Bob Dylan are looking back a bit wistfully, ruminating over what they might have done with their lives if they hadn’t been the legends in acting and music, respectively, that they are. Pacino said he would have made a good short order Dear Abby. . . . B3 Horoscope . . . B8

Royalty in An Tir is determined the old-fashioned way — by armed combat. In the indoor arena was the combat tournament. People dressed in medieval armor, most of it homemade, See MEDIEVAL, Page A8

cook. Dylan would have been a history teacher (Page B4). Your choice: Dylan giving you a D-minus on a history quiz and asking “How does it feel?” or Pacino sliding a Grand Slam breakfast in front of you with “Say hello to my little friend.”

analyst Boomer Esiason and actress Katharine McPhee are the hosts for “Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials,” at 8 tonight on CBS (The Clicker, Page B4). The NFL will have officials present to ensure that both hosts are properly inflated.

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Horizons is nearing Pluto for the closest study of the dwarf planet ever. One question to be answered is whether Pluto has enough mass to again be considered a planet (Page A2). Pluto, seizing the opportunity, has been loading up on carbs and spending some time with the free weights.

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Jason Rairigh, as Jason the Young (standing), duels a pretending-to-be-wounded Jason Westlund, as Lucius Von Bamberg, during the Ursulmas Medieval Faire at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds on Sunday in Monroe.

SULTAN — The route most often used to access Spada Lake could remain closed until summer. Sultan Basin Road was damaged in two places by flooding on Olney Creek earlier this month. In one spot, roughly 200 feet of asphalt are gone. In another spot, the rising water took out trees and guardrails, with the creek bank now threatening the road, Snohomish County public works director Steve Thomsen said. The storm that started Jan. 4 dropped up to 8 inches of rain on the areas above Sultan, according to the National Weather Service. It doesn’t appear that the local flood damage will meet requirements for state and federal disaster declarations, said John Pennington, the county’s director of emergency management. No homes are blocked by the closure. Fixing the road is expected to cost more than $300,000. “We the locals bear the brunt of all these repairs that Mother Nature dishes out to us,” Thomsen said. Sultan Basin Road stretches 13.4 miles from U.S. 2 in Sultan to Spada Lake, the Culmback Dam reservoir that provides drinking water to much of the county. An estimated 25,000 cars travel the road each year, Thomsen said. The road was built in 1900. In those days, wagons were used to haul down ore from the mining areas along the Sultan River, said Neil Neroutsos, a spokesman for the Snohomish County PUD. The dam is a key piece of the Henry M. Jackson Hydroelectric Project, which generates power for the PUD. Spada Lake also is a popular spot for hiking, fishing and bicycling. All recreation at the site is closed until at least June, Neroutsos said.

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