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Oh, great and powerful McGinn: Officials with the city of Marysville and the Tulalip Tribes have sent a letter to Seattle officials, asking them to intervene on their behalf with Cedar Grove Composting regarding odor complaints, since most of t

he food waste coming to Cedar Grove comes from the Emerald City.

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn said he would look into the request as soon as a study is completed to determine if anyone actually lives outside the city limits of Seattle.

Writers in the sky: Boeing has completed its flight tests for the 747-8 freighter with a final 17-hour flight on Wednesday. The flight crew, looking to demonstrate the plane’s endurance, traced the figures 7, 4 and 7 in the skies above the western U.S.

The flight crew decided against a longer flight to France to write “Surrender, Airbus,” in the sky.

Follow, follow, follow, follow: The Snohomish City Council has selected a contractor to complete the last two-thirds of a mile of the Centennial Trail, which will run unbroken from the Snohomish River to the Skagit County line. The 12-foot wide asphalt path was bid at $832,000 by the winning contractor.

Snohomish officials, noting budgetary constraints, decided against an option to upgrade from asphalt to yellow bricks.

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FILE — In this Sept. 17, 2020 file photo, provided by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Chelbee Rosenkrance, of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, holds a male sockeye salmon at the Eagle Fish Hatchery in Eagle, Idaho. Wildlife officials said Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, that an emergency trap-and-truck operation of Idaho-bound endangered sockeye salmon, due to high water temperatures in the Snake and Salomon rivers, netted enough fish at the Granite Dam in eastern Washington, last month, to sustain an elaborate hatchery program. (Travis Brown/Idaho Department of Fish and Game via AP, File)
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