Here’s a selection of the week’s top news items from across Snohomish County as they appeared in The Herald. For the full stories, go to www.heraldnet.com.
Sunday, Sept. 23
Dave Piland, voice of the Silvertips, dies at 43: Dave Piland of Snohomish, best known as the public-address announcer for the Everett Silvertips, died Friday of complications from brain cancer. He was 43.
The voice was only one of Piland’s many gifts, but the one for which he was best known. His most important gifts, however, were those that made him a devoted husband, a loving father and a caring human being.
John Sleeper
Monday, Sept. 24
Ennis remembered as caring coach, father: Sometimes words from a song perfectly sum up a collective sentiment.
There’s a lyric from the tune “For Good” from the musical “Wicked” that goes, “Because I knew you … I have been changed for good.” Two vocalists and a pianist performed the song Sunday at the start of the two-hour memorial service for football coach Terry Ennis at the Archbishop Murphy High School gymnasium.
Judging by the 2,000-plus people who showed up to remember Ennis and celebrate his many achievements on and off the field, Ennis, who died of cancer Sept. 12, clearly changed their lives for good.
Mike Cane
Tuesday, Sept. 25
UW campus sites down to final four: Four Snohomish County sites emerged Monday as finalists in the competition for a proposed University of Washington campus.
Proposals on two properties in Everett and one each in Lake Stevens and Marysville are the last of 84 submitted to the state for consideration as a home for the four-year college that could begin teaching students next fall.
Jerry Cornfield
Wednesday, Sept. 26
Whidbey squad to return this weekend: Electronic Attack Squadron 135 is scheduled to arrive home at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station this weekend after spending six months at sea aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.
The U.S. Navy jets are set to arrive at noon Saturday, while support and maintenance personnel will come home at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, base officials said.
Herald staff
Thursday, Sept. 27
PUD’s preparing for foul weather; are you? After floods, snow and windstorms in 2006, and a wetter and colder than normal winter on the horizon, utilities and emergency responders are getting prepared.
The Snohomish County PUD offered a free Winter Wise Expo workshop Friday for customers offering advice on trimming trees, electrical safety and installing and running portable generators.
David Chircop
Friday, Sept. 28
DNA link may solve two rapes: Evidence collected from a 2004 sexual assault that happened hundreds of miles away has led Snohomish County investigators to the door of an Everett man now suspected in an August attack here.
Police arrested the man, 33, on Wednesday for investigation of first-degree rape involving a teenage girl in south Everett.
Diana Hefley and David Chircop
Saturday, Sept. 29
Rising gas prices likely to linger: High gasoline prices usually fade away as children settle into their school day routines, gray skies return and nights get downright chilly.
But starting this weekend, the average price for a gallon of gasoline locally is higher than during Labor Day weekend, which traditionally marks the end of the summer road-trip season.
And experts are forecasting the cost of driving — and heating for those with oil-burning furnaces — aren’t likely to go down much this autumn and winter.
Eric Fetters
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