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Monroe Post Office
looking to expand

by POLLY KEARY, EDITOR

Cramped post office workers in Monroe will get some relief this year, when mail headed for carrier routes will go to a new facility for sorting and loading. Since the post office was built, the town has quadrupled in size, but the post office has not grown an inch. Read Story

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Monroe needs performing arts center, council says

by POLLY KEARY, EDITOR

Monroe has a community band and a community theater, but no place to hear them play or watch them perform, say members of the Monroe Arts Council. So they are preparing to hold meetings to discuss ways to bring a performing arts center to Monroe. "We need a place for musical, theatrical and sporting events, as well as conferences,” said Leonie Saaski, who with her husband owns Monroe’s only dedicated art gallery, Art Merchant International.
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• Bipartisanship brought success to Olympia session Page 3
• Professional, Church, and Find It Fast Directories Page 4
• Editor's Notebook: Thank God and a seatbelt Page 5
• Letters, Obituary, Births, Roads Update Page 5
• Teen triplet filmmakers win big at Seattle Film Fest Page 6
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• High school sports, Explosion, Speedway results Page 8

Friend of the Forest:
Anonymous donor pledges half million to save Heybrook

by POLLY KEARY, STAFF WRITER

With only $36,000 or so in the bank and time running out to raise about $1.3 million to save a forest vital to the landscape of the town of Index, things looked grim for the Friends of Heybrook Ridge. But then an anonymous donor gave them an astonishing gift that may get them the rest of the way.

“An anonymous donor recently pledged up to $500,000 to the cause, if his funds are matched dollar for dollar by other concerned Washingtonians, the Friends of Heybrook Ridge announced April 8.

If other donors match those funds, that will mean $1 million toward the price of the 133 acres of timber on Heybrook Ridge. Read Story

City to vote on $10 million in traffic projects

by POLLY KEARY, EDITOR

Monroe residents will decide this fall whether to fund $10 million in traffic improvements that could reduce congestion and improve safety. The city in 2007 completed a transportation plan identifying $43 million in needed projects to take place over the next 17 years. Most of the funding for the projects has been identified. The bond represents most of the shortfall. Read Story

Weigh-in time at fishing derby
DYLAN DOWNES, 10, of Snohomish, goes through the weigh-in with his 2 lb. 12 oz. trout at the Monroe Kids Fishing Derby Sunday morning Dylan allowed as he has been fishing for about two years now. ylan’s mom, Crystal, looking on, said, “I just hope his brother can catch one now.” The annual kids derby was held at Lake Tye in Monroe and was sponsored by the Sky Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited. Photo by Jim Scolman