The Thursday Northwest-getaways tab was axed. It was another of those sections that existed only to sell ads, and which was utterly failing in that goal. Four tab pages of regional event listings were added to the Friday entertainment tab, and two pages of regional destination stories were added to the Sunday travel section.

Also, the Friday “Your” page in the regular paper (the last vestige of the daily “living” section) was axed.

This means 16 half pages and one full size page were reduced from the weekly page count; with four half pages and two full pages added. The net reduction is five full-page equivalents, from a SeaTimes that’s already been cut-crazed in the past three years.

The op-ed pages on Wednesday and Friday were axed, leaving a single opinion page Monday-Saturday.

Sunday sports was cut to eight pages plus ads. We’ll see if any pages get restored for college football season, traditionally the biggest time for Sunday sports coverage.

The Saturday “Weekend Preview Edition” of the Sunday paper is now a cutdown miniature, with all the ads (including the insert flyers) but less editorial (even canned wire copy). No local news content (not even the pre-written feature “cover stories”). Only four pages of sports copy (heavy on previews of Sunday’s and the following week’s events).

The SeaTimes is expanding in one department. It’s taking over the Everett Herald’s home delivery operation.