NCW felonies are falling with declines of up to 42 percent from their peaks. The wood’ll be flying when work begins Sunday to place hundreds of tree trunks in the Entiat River to improve salmon habitat. Publisher Rufus Woods talks with Marilyn Dold, who is coordinating a task force on homelessness in Chelan and Douglas counties. Read the column and then watch the video. A U.S. flag may have gotten caught in a copter’s tail rotor, forcing a hard landing on the on the Fourth of July. Farrar in confrontation after 3rd crash on Tour. Sweets grill AppleSox for second game in a row. And if you’ve been craving a big dose o’ summer, it’s coming. The forecast is calling for 100 degrees Sunday and Monday. — Russ Hemphill, Metro Editor