The Monroe Monitor & Valley News, Monroe, Washington, The Voice of the Sky Valley Since 1899

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Page 2: Aroung The Valley / Flashback / News Briefs
Page 3: Photographer helps families capture memories of lives too short / Jobs for prisoners are back / Sultan Basin Road to be closed for sidewalk improvements / Monroe logging history to be presented at meeting
Page 4: Monroe Bearcats 2008 Fall Sports Schedules / Fall Sports Begins
Page 5: Monroe Bearcats 2008 Fall Sports Schedules / Fall Sports Begins
Page 6: Sultan wants residents to advise on budget / Education options grow at Sultan alternative high school / Find It Fast Directory
Page 7: Editor's Notebook: "Let Off The Gas" / What's Going On?: "Reiter Foothills Committee Gets Bigger, Greener" / The Penny Pincher / Letters
Page 8: Sultan Turk 2008 Fall Sports Schedules / New Business
Page 9: Sultan Turk 2008 Fall Sports Schedules / Masonic Bike Winners Announced
Page 10: People / Card of Thanks / Obituary / Briefs / Classified Ads / Legal Notices / Correction
Page 11: Health and Beauty
Page 12: Former Loth Lumber employees gather for reunion

Winner of 14 Washington Newspaper
Publishers Association awards for 2007!

Monroe Farmers Market
growing strong
With only a month of Tuesdays left in the first year of the Monroe Farmer’s Market, organizers are calling it a success, while acknowledging that it got off to a slow start. Read story

The Centennial Challenge

As you enter the Still Life exhibits
barn at the Evergreen State Fair,
the first thing you may notice is the
stack of doll heads on a long table in
the center of the room, where
crafters are giving a doll-making
demonstration. Behind that and
all around it are exhibits that
look like a cross between Laura
Ingalls Wilder’s home and
Martha Stewart’s studio.
Read story