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Page 1:Tagged: Youth gangs emerge in the Sky Valley / Celebrating Fiestas Patrias at the market
Page 2: Around The Valley / Flashback / News Briefs
Page 3: Election '08: Val Stevens vs. Fred Walser for State Senate / Food bank use at all-time high / Sky Valley chamber among those receiving tourism funds
Page 4: Valley Church Directory / Professional Directory / Find It Fast Directory
Page 5: Letters to the Editor / Editor's Notebook" Gangs no joke" / What's Going On?" "Developers' last stand for your money / New business / Obituaries / People
Page 6: The Valley News: Sultan home building plans on hold / Sultan Council to hold hearing / Sultan library will host annual fall book sale / Classified ads / Legal notices
Page 7: Senior centers hatch strategy for growth in a shrinking economy / New business
Page 8: Monroe and Sultan sports
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Vol.118, No. 39, September 23, 2008
The Voice of The Sky Valley Since 1899
Arrested Development: Sultan home building plan put on hold
There is a frozen-in-time feeling to Timber Ridge, a housing development on Sultan Basin Road.
There are a handful of beautiful homes with
well-manicured landscaping, but no cars in the
driveways. There is a new red swing set in a
playground, but no children play. There are
mailboxes on empty sidewalks, clover growing
up around red fire hydrants near numbered
empty lots. Read story
Youth gangs emerge in the Sky Valley
Unlike more urban Everett, the towns of the Sky Valley are not yet host to the huge, organized gangs that operate up and down the west coast, trading in drugs and stolen goods. But that doesn’t mean that the Sky Valley is free of gangs. Indeed, according to gang specialists, there are several smaller gangs of youths that have created problems for educators and police locally in recent years, and that, they say, is not to be taken lightly. Read story
Election 2008
State Senate: Stevens vs. Walser
As the economy begins to drive the presidential election, so to does it appear at the tops of the list of concerns of the two candidates vying to serve the 39th Legislative District in the state senate. Val Stevens, the Republican incumbent from Arlington, gave it as numbers one, two, and three on her list, and challenger Fred Walser said that the economy is number one for him as well. Read story
