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Page 2: Calendar / Flashback / 20th annual tractor show is August 8, 9, 10 / Some Monroe streets to be closed for Fair Days parade
Page 3: Election '08: Judge candidates present their cases: Joe Wilson, Jim Johanson, and George Appel
Page 4: Church, Professional, and Find It Fast Directories
Page 5: Editor's Notebook: "Judge, for you will probbably be judged yourself some day / Letters / What's Going On?: Heybrook one of many conservation successes for Index
Page 6: Highway memorial signs free on U.S. 2 / New Business / News Briefs / Classified ads / Legal Notices / Statewide Classified Ads
Page 7: August Health and Beauty
Page 8: Last ride / Card of Thanks / What's Going On, con't.
Winner of 14 Washington Newspaper
Publishers Association awards for 2007!
Vol.118, No. 32, August 5, 2008
The Voice of The Sky Valley Since 1899
Sultan High gets new principal
Sultan School District has named Cal Johnson as the new principal of Sultan High School. Johnson has served in a secondary education level since 1975 when he started teaching at a high school level. He received his master’s in education from the University of Montana. Read story
Memorial signs free on US Highway 2
As any reporter knows, there is a difference between statistics and stories. We can know that a certain number of people die on a certain road each year. We can know what behaviors contribute to those deaths, too, such as driving under the influence of something or driving while exhausted...
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Judicial candidates
share their views
Although Washington is one of only 17 states nationwide that elect superior court judges by popular vote, rather than allowing other officials to appoint them, there are a lot of reasons why voters might be glad to have a say. A large percentage of the population will sooner or later appear before a superior court judge, either during a divorce proceeding, a land use matter, an employment dispute, on one or the other end of a lawsuit, or as a witness, victim, or defendant of a criminal proceeding.
The three candidates for the position of Snohomish County Superior Court Judge last week answered questions about their philosophies regarding criminal and family law, as well as land use, law suits and the role of judges in applying the law. Read Story
Heybrook Saved
With county help,
Index residents save scenic ridge
It could have been a heartbreaker.
With time running out and three-quarters of a million dollars to raise, things looked bleak for the Friends of Heybrook Ridge. The remote mountain community didn’t want the scenic ridge behind the town to be clearcut. But in 2006, they learned that a company planned to do just that. The town gets more money from tourism than timber these days; the timber was worth more to the town standing.... Read story
