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Page 1: Friday windstorm causes fatality / Explosion back with NBA draft picks, may build arena in Monroe / Cow manure turns to electricity in the Tualco Valley
Page 2: Around The Valley / Flashback / News Briefs
Page 3: Planned Parenthood's Monroe office to close / Downtown Monroe zoning ordinance passed / Ticket price bump could aid fairgrounds /
Page 4: Church Directory / Professional Directory / Find It Fast Directory
Page 5: Editor's Notebook: "Living in Green Bay, Washington" / What's Going On?: "Just Darned Proud of My Sons" / Classified ads / Legal notices
Page 6: Monroe Bearcats Spring Sports Schedules
Page 7: Sultan Turks Spring Sports Schedules
Page 8: The Valley News: Reiter still on track to become recreation area / The Penny Pincher / Monroe's Easter egg hunt still on in spite of city budget woes / Cisco Morris to appear in Monroe
Page 9 : Monroe High graduate is editor of refugee paper in Africa
Page 10 : Sports / People / Obituary

Cow manure turns to electricity in the Tualco Valley
At least 280 homes in Snohomish County are now receiving their power from an alternative source that many could never imagine. It’s not wind, nor solar, nor biodeisel based. Rather, its cow-based. That is, the new power source is from a utility that converts gas from cow manure into electricity, a technology that may help both salmon stocks and dairy farms survive. Read story

Explosion back with NBA draft picks, may build arena in Monroe

Those who don’t see the new Explosion basketball players in the first few weeks of the season might not get to see them at all, said new team head coach Chris Weakley last week. Some of them could already be playing for the NBA. That is the caliber of the new players the Snohomish County Explosion, Monroe’s professional basketball team, is bringing to the basketball court this spring, team organizers say.

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Ticket price bump could
aid fairgrounds
A small bump in ticket prices at the fairgrounds might help pay for improvements at the aging facility. That's what county councilman Dave Somers hopes, and he and another
councilman are asking the county council to consider imposing the price boost. Read story

Easter egg hunt on in spite of
city budget woes
Each year, the city of Monroe chips in on a huge Easter egg hunt for hundreds of local kids, and this year, the hunt will go on, although funding is in short supply, said Denise Jacobsen of the Monroe Parks Department. Read story