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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 |  |
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|  | | 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 |  |
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|  | 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? | | FULL STORY |  |
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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 |  |
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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. | | FULL STORY |  |
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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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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 |  |
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| | |  | | 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 |  |
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|  | | 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 |  |
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|  | | 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 |  |
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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 |  |
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|  | | 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 |  |
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|  | | 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 |  |
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|  | | 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 |  |
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| | | |  | 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. | | FULL STORY |  |
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