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Much more inside!
Page A2: Around The Valley / Flashback / News Briefs
Page A3: Election '08: Olson is back to face Kristiansen
Page A4: Editor's Notebook: "Wake up, Polly, we're getting bombed" / Letters
Page A5: Letters to the Editor
Page A6: Monroe football / Sultan Claybreakers begin new season
Page B1: Monroe and Sultan sports / Sultan passes building moratorium / U.S. 2 down to one lane in upper valley through November
Page B2: Fall Car Care: Tiny Commuter Car Packs Big Mileage
Page B3: Fall Care Care: Rules ffor Happy Carpools
Page B4: Sultan City Council to hold public hearing on proposed comprehensive plan amendments / The Penny Pincher column /
Sultan, Gold Bar and Index receive a
$12,000 grant for graffiti removal / Find It Fast Directory
Winner of 14 Washington Newspaper
Publishers Association awards for 2007!
Vol.118, No. 38, September 16, 2008
The Voice of The Sky Valley Since 1899
Stolen credit cards found
in Monroe home
Monroe Police found several stolen credit cards and other stolen items when they searched the 154th Street home of a Monroe man, 20, on Friday morning. Three people were in the home in the 18100 block of 154th Street when the narcotics warrant was served at 6:30 a.m. and a fourth jumped from a window and fled. Police were unable to locate that suspect. Read story
Driver of sunken car identified
A man who drowned when his car went off the road and overturned into a drainage ditch along Old Snohomish-Monroe Road in Monroe early the morning of Monday, Sept. 8, has been identified as Daniel Romero-Martinez, 20, of Monroe. Read story
Monroe man survives 15 minutes without vital signs
by POLLY KEARY, EDITOR
Steve Romberger is tough, and that saved his life. But first it nearly killed him. The Monroe construction worker, 56, had been struggling with his asthma the
afternoon of June 13. He knew he was having an attack, and he knew it was pretty bad. But he held but as long as he could before knocking on the wall to summon his wife in the next room. Read story
Sultan alumni Vickie Stanton
climbs ranks in National
Guard, serving in Iraq
While growing up in Gold Bar and attending Sultan High School, Vickie Stanton dreamed of joining the National Guard. Instead, she started a family. Once her kids were old
enough to do without her constant presence, she thought she was too old. Read story
YMCA celebrates its first birthday
t was one year ago that, following a long funding campaign and a partnership with the city, the Monroe YMCA opened its doors on Fryelands Boulevard. The response has been better than organizers hoped, and the organization is ready to party. Read story
