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• Torched - Street of dreams bombed, sign suggests E.L.F.
• Eviction may have led to slaying of motel manager
• Monroe rancher arrested for starvation, neglect of horses
• Monroe garden designers bloom at Northwest Flower and Garden show

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• Around The Valley
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• Editor's Notebook:"Bearing Bad News "

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• Thief can't steal spirit of Tualco Valley
• Obituary
• 50 MHS students qualify for state DECA competition
• Eagle, Copple named as youth of the year

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• Guest Opinion: North Kelsey Update
• Monroe hammer thrower top in nation
• Annual lip sync contest is March 21

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• Coldwell Banker homes for sale

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• Explosion announces roster
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• Monroe Middle School Honor Roll
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• Middle school holds pop concert to fund technology



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Torched - Street of dreams bombed, sign suggests E.L.F.
Emergency fire crews, investigators from the ATF and the FBI, police from many agencies and reporters from all over the United States swarmed Echo Lake Road Monday...
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Eviction may have lead to slaying of motel manager

A Camano Island man has been charged with one count of first degree manslaughter for the assault that led to the death of a Monroe motel manager early in the morning of Tuesday, Feb. 26, an assault that apparently began with a dispute over an eviction.

Police received a call reporting an assault at 1:01 a.m. Tuesday from a woman at the Brookside Motel, reporting that a tenant of the motel, Jesse Allyn Bullington, was involved in a physical altercation with her husband, motel night manager Ken Wolfe.
When police arrived, Ken Wolfe, 46, was unconscious outside the motel.

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INVESTIGATORS COMB Monroe's Brookside Motel Tuesday morning in the wake of an altercation between a tenant and a manager that resulted in the death of the manager, Ken Wolfe, 46, due to blow to the head. A suspect, Jesse Allyn Bullington, 30, was arrested later in the day. Photo by Dan Armstrong
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Monroe rancher arrested for neglect of horses
PHOENIX, a foal of about six months, can only stand for short periods of time and his survival is uncertain due to prolonged neglect and malnutrition the horse experienced at a Carnation ranch owned by a Monroe breeder, according to horse rescue specialist Jamie Taft, seen here with the foal at S.A.F.E., her horse sanctuary. Photo by Dan Armstrong
Phoenix was only hours from death when rescuers arrived to take the small horse from a farm at which he was starving.
Others weren't as fortunate. Rescuers found the bodies of four horses at the Carnation farm, including a mare whose colt was standing over it when they arrived.
Nine other horses, emaciated, filthy, lice-infested, with backs rotting for lack of shelter from the rain, were removed from the farm and taken to horse shelters in the Monroe area.Their owner, Jean Marie Elledge, 56, of Monroe, was arrested at the Carnation property and charged with three counts of animal cruelty. It was the second time she'd been arrested that week.

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