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Editor’s Notebook: Hard high heels to fill

By Polly Keary, Editor When I first came to the Monitor as a reporter in 2004, there was a staff of eight. It was a busy, noisy office on Main…

Thank a Teacher

By Jessica Conte If you do one thing this week, let it be to thank a teacher; the teacher who spends all day with your child, the teacher you see…

Ransomware: The New Breed of Virus

  By Roman Levesque Ransomware is the newest form of computer virus, and it is hitting computers and holding them for ransom, meaning you cannot do anything on your computer…

Editor’s Notebook: The Mother’s Day Massacre of 2003

By Polly Keary, Editor I have never had children of my own, and I have never been more glad about that than I was the day I visited the zoo…

Guest Column: Sky Valley Cold Weather Shelter wraps up for the season

For a first-time attempt at caring for our homeless neighbors, the Cold Weather Alliance can pat themselves on the back! Despite having to move from location to location during the…

From the Front Desk: Why can’t we be friends?

By Kathie Savelesky Mother’s Day is my favorite holiday. My kids are my favorite people and “Momma” is the title I wear most proudly. It’s been a great run –…

Editor’s Notebook: 26.2 miles

It’s midnight and I’m sitting at the keyboard, sweaty and chilly. I just got in from a four-mile run. An hour earlier my friend Chris (who writes Valley News now)…

We are Boston

By Holly Glen Gearhart “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. -Martin Luther King, Jr.  I am never more thrilled than when I see…

Paying it forward

To the Editor; My wife is one of many volunteers who volunteer for various projects and jobs in Sultan. She cleans a mile stretch of road that runs past our…

Editor’s Notebook: Rx for good hospital coverage

  Recently, I’ve written several stories about Providence’s medical processes both at the Everett hospital and at the Monroe clinic. The timing of the stories suggested to some readers that…

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