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Silvertips edge Winterhawks
LAUGHS: Stephen Colbert
assumes the helm of CBS’ “The Late Show” on Tuesday night at 11:30, taking over David Letterman’s hosting duties.
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SCHOOLS: Everett School District teachers
voted last week to accept a new contract, expected to be approved Tuesday (See Page A3). Classes are scheduled to start Wednesday.
PLAYOFFS: The AquaSox head into a best
two-of-three series tonight at 7:05 at Everett Memorial Stadium. If they don’t win the series, this will be their last home game of the season.
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McCain faults tanker delays Issues with suppliers and design have put Boeing’s KC46 program “at risk of not meeting” its deadline, letter says. By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer
EVERETT — In an open letter last month, Sen. John McCain took the Defense Department to task for delays in Boeing’s KC-46
aerial refueling tanker development program. Boeing won the bid to design the replacement for the Air Force’s aging primary tanker with a fast-paced schedule. It promised it would stay on track,
thanks in part to its experience building military tankers. However, because of supplier and design problems, flight and ground tests for the plane, which is assembled in Everett, are nine months behind schedule. Those delays put the “program at risk of not meeting” its delivery deadline, McCain said in the letter, which he sent Aug.
28 to Defense Secretary Ash Carter. Because of the delays, the Air Force has pushed back its decision on whether to start low-rate production until the second half of 2016, McCain said. That decision originally was scheduled for this month. See TANKER, Page A2
In memory of what they do Statue on Hat Island dedicated to late husband and all firefighters
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Friends and family gathered with Charlotte Maulsby on Saturday on Hat Island to dedicate a 6-foot statue of a firefighter in honor of her husband, John Maulsby.
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HAT ISLAND — A memorial of a firefighter now stands overlooking a spot that might be one of Snohomish County’s best kept scenic secrets. On Saturday, friends, family and neighbors gathered around the third hole of the Hat
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Island golf course to dedicate a 6-foot statue of John Maulsby, a retired Seattle firefighter who died in February after a long battle with emphysema. He was 80. During the past three decades, Maulsby and his wife, Charlotte, found peace on the picturesque, invite-only island between Everett and Whidbey Island in
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Possession Sound. “He was a man’s man in the old-fashioned sense where your handshake was your word,” said Charlotte Maulsby, 74. “I know this place extended his life just by being here.” That’s why she wanted the community to remember her husband, who was always determined to do the right thing and
Mmm, ‘possum Give the critters a brake: The days are growing shorter. More cars are on the road when the sun’s not shining. It’s time for “roadkill season” in Snohomish County (above). It’s also time to give thanks that we don’t live in those parts of the country Dear Abby. . . . B3 Horoscope . . . B6
would give anybody the shirt off his back. Because all firefighters give so much of themselves to help others, just as hers did, Charlotte honored all of them during the service Saturday. A number of past and present local and regional firefighters attended.
where roadkill season means it’s time to stock up the freezer in the basement. Where nobody takes a lickin’: Tonight, PBS begins airing a digitally remastered version of “The Civil War,” Ken Burns’ 1990 documentary (Short Takes, Page B4). The remastered version
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Watch out for animals on roads Creatures on the move favor the season’s darker mornings and evenings, conditions that make it hard for drivers to spot them. By Melissa Slager Herald Writer
EVERETT — We’re entering roadkill season in Snohomish County. Fall brings darker mornings and evenings, a cool cover that’s favored by animals on the move. Some animals also are migrating as they get ready for winter. Others are, erm, getting frisky (and therefore less cautious). Add more cars on the road with school back in session, and the chances increase of sad roadside scenes of our furry neighbors — and possible injury to humans, too. Not to mention the near-misses. Norma Hatvany, of Mukilteo, had a string of encounters recently with deer on Highway 526. She encountered a doe near the Future of Flight Aviation Center, and another day near the Boeing employee parking lot. Both times she and other drivers slammed on the brakes. “We all had to stand on our ears to keep from hitting her,” Hatvany said. Washington State Department of Transportation crews remove more deer carcasses on state highways in Snohomish County in October and November than any other time of year, and September is a big month as well. Crews don’t track smaller carcasses. That said, “roadkill season” is a bit of a misnomer in that there aren’t necessarily more animals crossing roadways in the fall, said Ruth Milner, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist for Snohomish, Island and San Juan counties. It’s often a coincidence, especially when it comes to deer.
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is described as “strikingly different” from the original film. Could this mean that the mournful theme song has been replaced with the jaunty tune from “F-Troop”? Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1927, inventor Philo T. Farnsworth, who was barely Sports . . . . . . . C1 Your Photos . . B1
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out of his teens, successfully transmitted an image via television for the first time (Today in History, Page B4). Young Philo would have accomplished more that day, but he was still living at home and his helicopter mom insisted on limiting his screen time.
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