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March 10, 2010
DAVID LETTERMAN’S CONTINUED RATINGS BOOST FROM HIS SEX AND BLACKMAIL SCANDAL
March 10, 2010
80’S TEEN HEARTTHROB ACTOR COREY HAIM
DEAD AT 38
March 10, 2010
WOMAN DELIVERS OWN BABY, DID NOT KNOW SHE WAS PREGNANT
March 10, 2010
PHOTO OF THE DAY
Here’s Lookin At Ya
March 10, 2010
“JIHAD JANE” ACCUSED OF USING INTERNET IN PLOT TO RECRUIT TERRORISTS
March 10, 2010
COUPLE FILES SUIT AGAINST ONE TIME KIRKLAND BASED INVESTMENT GURU ALLEGING THEY LOST ALL THEIR SAVINGS
March 10, 2010
A FIRST: CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN TO GET GONDOLA
March 10, 2010
EXTREMISTS ATTACK WORLD VISION OFFICE IN PAKISTAN, KILL AT LEAST 5

SKY VALLEY REGION
INDEX WOMAN IN SERIOUS CONDITION AFTER CAR CRASH
March 07, 2010
(SEATTLE, WA) -- Officials at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle tell the Chronicle an Index woman remained in serious condition today (Sunday) from injuries sustained in a one car accident Friday evening on U.S. Highway 2 in the Gold Bar area.
FULL STORY
WELLINGTON TRAIN DISASTER REDUX
March 07, 2010
(SKY VALLEY) -- For those of you who were out of town on business or otherwise predisposed and missed our feature story March 1, 2010 on the 100th year anniversary of the Great Wellington Train Disaster here in the Sky Valley, we have posted it for posterity in our Sky Valley 101 section.
FULL STORY
THIS WEEKEND
AT THE MOVIES
March 06, 2010
(HOLLYWOOD) -- Yo. You people must love Lenny Di Caprio, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams and Mark Ruffalo in zee weird suspense thriller ‘Shutter Island” because it’s the # 1 movie for the 2nd week in a row. Would we lie about that?
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COUNTY SHERIFF’S HELICOPTER GETS NEW GEAR TO HELP LOCATE AVALANCHE VICTIMS
March 04, 2010
(EVERETT, WA) -- The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Air Operations unit recently acquired equipment that will aid in locating victims trapped in an avalanche.
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WASH STATE POSTS FIRST JOB GAINS SINCE 2008
March 03, 2010
(OLYMPIA, WA) – It is good news for job seekers in the state. Washington’s economy picked up some steam in January, adding an estimated 12,400 jobs – the first monthly gain since November 2008.

“This is a positive sign for Washington State,” Gov. Chris Gregoire said. “We have implemented several strategies to create jobs, and it’s paying off. There is more we can and should do – that’s why I continue to work with leaders at both the state and federal levels to develop additional proposals that will put people to work.”
FULL STORY
STATE PATROL NAMES COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER OF THE YEAR
March 02, 2010
(BELLEVUE, WA) -- David Ingram of Maple Valley has been named the Washington State Patrol Communications Officer of the Year.
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COMMUTE NEWS FROM WSDOT
March 02, 2010
(REGIONAL) -- Quick commute news from WSDOT: Power outages are causing some cameras on I-90 and SR 520 to be temporarily unavailable at this hour (6:15 a.m. 3/2). Crews on scene. Please be patient.
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BURLINGTON MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED IN ONE CAR ROLL OVER ACCIDENT
March 02, 2010
(SKAGIT COUNTY) -- A Burlington man was seriously injured Monday afternoon when his vehicle careened out of control in Skagit County and rolled multiple times.
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MEMORIAL MAINTAINED TO MAN KILLED ON HIGHWAY 2
Index Woman badly hurt
on Hy 2 remains in serious condition.
March 10, 2010
(SULTAN, WA) -- The first thing a passerby noticed in the early evening on Monday along Highway 2 in Sultan was a freshly tended memorial on a small patch of grass just off the shoulder of the road.

At early sundown as the light began to slowly fade there were fresh flowers placed near the white cross that had been constructed in remembrance of the man who lost his life there. There were freshly lit lanterns burning as well.
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MONROE NEWS
TIP-A-COP FUNDRAISER IS MARCH 24 IN MONROE
March 10, 2010
(MONROE, WA) – On Wednesday, March 24 the Monroe Police Department will participate in the 2010 “Tip a Cop” campaign that benefits Washington Special Olympics.
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NEW MONROE GOODWILL STORE TO ALSO HOUSE DONATION CENTER
March 10, 2010
(MONROE, WA) -- The new 22,000 square foot Goodwill retail store in Monroe has its grand opening set for April 15. The new store has been under construction for several months at 14751 Chain Lake Rd. SE, kiddy corner from Lowe’s Home Center in the North Kelsey shopping district.

As part of the opening of the new store, Goodwill’s Donation Center at 18805 State Route 2 will close on March 12 and re-open at the site of the new retail store.
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CAFFEINE HOW I LOVED YOU
By Kim Johnson
March 08, 2010
EDITOR'S NOTE -- Each Monday Kim Johnson's column appears on the front page of the Chronicle. Kim’s unique and amusing take on the ordinary events of American life are a must read to start off your week.

By Kim Johnson

(SKY VALLEY) -- Have you ever had to give up something you love? I mean something really important to you. Something that you've had for a long time. Something that holds a special place in your heart. I found myself in just that situation this week.
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SULTAN NEWS
MEMORIAL MAINTAINED TO MAN
KILLED ON HY 2
Index Woman badly hurt on Hy 2 remains in serious condition.
March 10, 2010
(SULTAN, WA) -- The first thing a passerby noticed in the early evening on Monday along Highway 2 in Sultan was a freshly tended memorial on a small patch of grass just off the shoulder of the road.

At early sundown as the light began to slowly fade there were fresh flowers placed near the white cross that had been constructed in remembrance of the man who lost his life there. There were freshly lit lanterns burning as well.
FULL STORY
SULTAN OFFERS FREE TAXES, FINANCE WORKSHOP FOR SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS
March 03, 2010
(SULTAN, WA) -- Sultan Mayor Carolyn Eslick and Sky Valley Chamber of Commerce President, Jeff Cofer will host a FREE Business Workshop on business finance and taxes for small business owners.
FULL STORY
SULTAN PLANNING BOARD MEETS
March 02, 2010
(SULTAN, WA -- The Sultan planning board meets at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday March 2nd at, City Hall located at 319 Main Street.
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MISCELLANEOUS NEWS
NEW POLL SHOWS MAJORITY OF AMERICANS BACK PRESIDENT'S EFFORTS TO REFORM HEALTH CARE
March 09, 2010
(NATIONAL) -- Americans want health care reform and a new public opinion survey shows those lawmakers opposing it are way out of sync as large majorities of Americans want bipartisan cooperation on the health care/health insurance issue.
FULL STORY
WELLINGTAIN TRAIN
DISASTER REVISITED
March 07, 2010
(SKY VALLEY) -- For those of you who were out of town on business or otherwise predisposed and missed our feature story March 1, 2010 on the 100th year anniversary of the Great Wellington Train Disaster here in the Sky Valley, we have posted it for posterity in our Sky Valley 101 section.
FULL STORY
STATE SENATE PASSES LAW TO HELP INJURED POLICE OFFICERS, FIREFIGHTERS
March 05, 2010
(OLYMPIA, WA) -- The Washington State Senate has unanimously passed a bill that provides medical insurance for law enforcement officers and firefighters catastrophically disabled in the line of duty.
FULL STORY
DEATH WITH DIGNITY
State issues first
annual report
March 05, 2010
(OLYMPIA, WA) -- Washington’s first annual report on use of the “Death with Dignity Act” shows lethal doses of medication were dispensed to 63 people in 2009. The law allows terminally ill adults to request these prescriptions from physicians.
FULL STORY
FORMER BOX OFFICE STAR
RESTING AFTER SURGERY
March 04, 2010
(FLORIDA) -- Burt Reynolds, the # 1 movie box office star in the world in the 1970s, is recovering from heart surgery. Reynolds is 74.
FULL STORY
BURLINGTON MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED IN ACCIDENT
March 02, 2010
(SKAGIT COUNTY) -- A Burlington man was seriously injured Monday afternoon when his vehicle careened out of control in Skagit County and rolled multiple times.
FULL STORY
FIRST TEA PARTY
NOW NEW 'COFFEE PARTY"
New angry populist movement seeks to hold those responsible for gov't gridlock accountable
March 02, 2010
(NATIONAL) -- Move over tea partiers, there’s a new, angry populist movement growing in the land and they are ticked off and fed up -- not with government per se’ but with those who they see as creating and perpetuating broken government, gridlock and the blanket stereotype that government is always the enemy.
FULL STORY
ALLEGED MADOFF CO-CONSPIRATOR ARRESTED
And man who blew whistle
on Madoff has new book out
February 26, 2010
(NEW YORK) — The director of operations for convicted New York Ponzi scheme operator Bernard Madoff's defunct firm was arrested and charged Thursday with directing that false accounting entries go into the firm's books to conceal Madoff's fraud.
FULL STORY
SNOHOMISH NEWS
“DREAM DINNERS” OF SNOHOMISH ANNOUNCES CONTEST WINNERS
March 10, 2010
(SNOHOMISH, WA) – After tasting hundreds of entries from across the country, Dream Dinners, Inc., based in Snohomish, the nation's leading meal assembly chain, has announced the four grand-prize winners of its second annual recipe contest.
FULL STORY
SNOHOMISH WINE FESTIVAL IS THIS MONTH
March 07, 2010
(SNOHOMISH, WA) -- The Snohomish Chamber of Commerce presents a wine festival this month as a benefit event for the chamber. The event will be held March 13 from Noon to 5pm at “A Manor of Wine”, 610 First Street in Snohomish.
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STARTUP, GOLDBAR NEWS
GOLD BAR COUNCIL MEETS
March 02, 2010
(GOLD BAR, WA) -- The Gld Bar city council meets Tuesday March 2nd, 7:00 p.m. at 107 Fifth Street. Residents are encouraged to attend.
FULL STORY
DRUG PRESCRIBERS IN WASHINGTON MUST SOON CONVERT TO TAMPER RESISTANT PAPER
February 26, 2010
(OLYMPIA, WA) -- Special prescription pads intended to increase patient safety and stop people from stealing or altering existing prescriptions will soon be required in our state.
FULL STORY
SECURE MEDICINE DISPOSAL NOW AVAILABLE IN GOLD BAR
February 15, 2010
(GOLD BAR, WA) -- The days of simply flushing old or unwanted prescription meds down the toilet or putting them in the trash are long gone.
FULL STORY
GOLD BAR MEETINGS
February 09, 2010
(GOLD BAR, WA) -- The Gold Bar city council meets on the first and third Tuesday of each month. The planning commission meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month.
FULL STORY
AUTHORITIES SAY WITCHCRAFT FIGURES INTO MURDER CASE AGAINST GOLD BAR MAN
January 31, 2010
(EVERETT, WA) -- A Gold Bar man, with a long history of violence and trouble with the law and who was charged Friday in Superior Court with killing his ex-girlfriend earlier this month had asked a friend to drive him around a wooded area of the upper Sky Valley so he could get rid of his victim's dismembered body.
FULL STORY
CHARGES UPGRADED AGAINST GOLD BAR MAN IN DEATH OF EVERETT WOMAN
January 30, 2010
(EVERETT, WA) -- A Gold Bar man who was charged Friday in Superior Court with killing his ex-girlfriend earlier this month had asked a friend to drive him around a wooded area of the Sky Valley so he could get rid of his victim's dismembered body, according to court documents filed in the case when the charge against him was upgraded in Superior Court.
FULL STORY
GOLD BAR AREA COUPLE GET YEAR IN JAIL FOR ANIMAL CRUELTY
January 25, 2010
(EVERETT, WA) -- A Gold Bar area man and wife who had already pleaded guilty to six counts each of felony animal cruelty filed in the 2008 Snohomish County “puppy mill” case were sentenced Monday for their actions relating to abusing dogs.
FULL STORY
GOLD BAR AREA COUPLE TO BE SENTENCED IN PUPPY MILL CASE
January 25, 2010
EVERETT, WA) -- A Gold Bar area man and wife who have pleaded guilty to six counts each of felony animal cruelty filed in the 2008 Snohomish County “puppy mill” case will be sentenced Monday for their participation in the alleged puppy mill.
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INDEX, BARING, SKYKOMISH NEWS
UPDATE ON INDEX WOMAN INJURED ON HY 2
March 08, 2010
(SEATTLE, WA) -- Officials at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle tell the Chronicle an Index woman remained in intensive care in serious condition Monday from injuries sustained in a one car accident last Friday evening on U.S. Highway 2 in the Gold Bar area.
FULL STORY
NEW INDEX COFFEE HOUSE BREATHES NEW LIFE IN THE COMMUNITY
March 08, 2010
(INDEX, WA) -- It is not often that a new business opens in a tiny hamlet like Index -- population around 185 hardy souls who slog through hard winters filled with torrents of rain, frigid mountain temperatures, fog, often deep snow and the threat of flooding from the Skykomish River which runs parallel and dangerously close to the historic town.

So when a new business does open within the confines of Index’s tiny 0.25 acres of land, it is big news in Index and throughout the upper Sky Valley.
FULL STORY
INDEX WOMAN IN SERIOUS CONDITION AFTER HIGHWAY 2 CRASH
March 07, 2010
(SEATTLE, WA) -- Officials at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle tell the Chronicle an Index woman remained in serious condition today (Sunday) from injuries sustained in a one car accident Friday evening on U.S. Highway 2 in the Gold Bar area.
FULL STORY
WELLINGTON TRAIN DISASTER REDUX
March 07, 2010
(SKY VALLEY) -- For those of you who were out of town on business or otherwise predisposed and missed our feature story March 1, 2010 on the 100th year anniversary of the Great Wellington Train Disaster here in the Sky Valley, we have posted it for posterity in our Sky Valley 101 section.
FULL STORY
INDEX WOMAN SERIOUSLY INJURED IN CAR CRASH ON HY 2
March 06, 2010
(GOLD BAR, WA) -- An Index woman was seriously injured in a one car accident Friday evening on U.S. Highway 2 in the Gold Bar area.
FULL STORY
DNR TO OFFER FREE VOLUNTEER TRAINING MARCH 6
February 28, 2010
(SEDRO-WOOLEY) -- Volunteers play a critical role in keeping recreation facilities, managed by The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR), open and safe for the public.
FULL STORY
GATHERING AT REITER FOREST TO HELP DESIGN OFF ROAD ORV TRAILS
February 27, 2010
(INDEX, WA) -- On Saturday Feb 20 staff members from the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and 23 interested citizens spent a “field day” at the Reiter Foothills Forest in the part of the forest where DNR plans a motorized trail system.
FULL STORY
PHOTO PAGE:
First Reiter Forest Work Party
February 21, 2010
(INDEX, WA) – While the Reiter Forest (some call it Reiter foothills) in the Index area remains closed for habitat restoration work, volunteers have joined DNR workers and others in putting elbow grease to shovels to git' er done.
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