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SKY VALLEY REGION | | | | TODAY'S CARTOON
By Dan Rosandich | | | September 08, 2010 | | | (SKY VALLEY) -- Today’s cartoon comes your way via the talents of World Famous cartoon master Dan Rosandich, cartoonist to the stars. Click FULL STORY to bring up today's cartoon. | | FULL STORY | |
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| | | | LIVING EVERGREEN ESSAY WINNERS HONORED AT FAIR | | | August 27, 2010 | | (MONROE, WA) -- Snohomish County and the Allied Waste company honored six students during the opening day of the Evergreen State Fair in Monroe on Thursday for their winning essays in the “Living Evergreen” contest.
Divided into two categories – middle school students (grades 6-9) and high school students (grades 10-12) – contestants were asked to write about the growing need to be environmentally friendly. | | FULL STORY | |
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| | | TEEN IMMUNIZATION RATES UP IN WASHINGTON | | | August 26, 2010 | | (OLYMPIA, WA) - Teen immunization rates are up across the board with Washington at or above the national average in some key categories, according to a new survey.
The second year of state teen data from the National Immunization Survey shows improvement for every vaccine. | | FULL STORY | |
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| | | HOME INVASION ROBBERY IN UNINCORPORATED MARYSVILLE | | | August 24, 2010 | | (MARYSVILLE, WA) -- Snohomish County Sheriff’s detectives are investigating a home invasion robbery Monday morning in the 8400 block of 27th Ave. NE in unincorporated Marysville.
Detectives believe the two males suspects were attempting to target a specific house, but entered the wrong one instead.
No one was injured in the incident. | | FULL STORY | |
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| | | | | STATE DISCIPLINES HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS | | | August 20, 2010 | | (OLYMPIA, WA) -- The following are recent disciplinary actions taken, including suspension or revocation of licenses, certifications, or registrations, against Washington State health care providers by Washington State’s Department of Health Systems Quality Assurance Office.
The office works with boards, commissions, and advisory committees to set licensing standards for more than 70 health care professions such as medical doctors, nurses and counselors. | | FULL STORY | |
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| | | | | INFERNO IN SAN BRUNO
One dead, 23 injured, over 50 homes leveled by massive fire fed by winds | | | September 10, 2010 | | (SAN BRUNO, CA) -- Many residents who were there when the explosion was heard and then seconds later saw blaze orange fill the sky the and felt intense heat roll through the neighborhood described the scene with the same words: inferno.
A huge explosion – now thought to have been caused by a gas line break – erupted into walls of towering flames Thursday night that engulfed and then consumed a San Bruno, California neighborhood that lies not far from the San Francisco International airport. |
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MONROE NEWS | | | | | ALL SKY VALLEY SCHOOLS START NEW SCHOOL YEAR THIS WEEK | | | September 07, 2010 | | (MONROE, WA) -- Tomorrow, Wednesday Sept. 8, is the first day of the 2010-2011 school year for kids in the Snohomish, Monroe and Sultan districts here in the Sky Valley.
Also starting September 8th are the Arlington, Everett, Granite Falls (grades 1 through 9), Lake Stevens and Oak Harbor school districts. Thursday the Stanwood-Camano district opens the school year, as does Granite Falls high school.
Kids in the Index district got a jump start on the week and the year as their classes begin today, Tuesday Sept 7th. Classes start at 8:00 am in Index with breakfast served (at a cost) from 7:45 am through 8:00 am. | | FULL STORY | |
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| | | | EVERGREEN STATE FAIR’S “PURPLE COW” TURNS 50 | | | September 02, 2010 | | (MONROE, WA) -- The Evergreen State Fair’s venerable Purple Cow stand is celebrating 50 years of serving up dairy treats to fairgoers.
Started in 1960 by the Snohomish County Dairy Women, the booth was an immediate hit with its blackberry floats appropriately named the Purple Cow. | | FULL STORY | |
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MISCELLANEOUS NEWS | | | | | | MEN IN HEAVILY CATHOLIC IRELAND TURNING AWAY FROM PRIESTHOOD | | | August 27, 2010 | | (INTERNATIONAL) -- The number of priestly ordinations in Ireland has dipped below England and Wales for the first time in living memory, according to new figures released by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ireland.
A report in The Independent of London says the numbers show how low the fortunes of the Catholic church have sunk in a country that once used to export Catholic missionaries to all corners of the world. | | FULL STORY | |
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| | | DELIVERY OF CARDS & LETTERS FOR WSP TROOPER MEMORIAL SERVICE | | | August 26, 2010 | | | (UNION GAP, WA) - The Washington State Patrol and the families of Trooper Gary Miller, Communications Officer-4 Anne Miller-Hewitt, and Trooper Kristopher Sperry have expressed their gratitude for the strong outpouring of support from the community and citizens throughout Washington over the untimely deaths of the three troopers. | | FULL STORY | |
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| | | | STATE DISCIPLINES HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS | | | August 20, 2010 | | | (OLYMPIA, WA) -- The following are recent disciplinary actions taken, including suspension or revocation of licenses, certifications, or registrations, against Washington State health care providers by Washington State’s Department of Health Systems Quality Assurance Office. | | FULL STORY | |
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| | | | FIRE MOBILIZATION ENDS FOR THE LEAHY FIRE | | | August 08, 2010 | | (WALLA WALLA, WA) -- Washington State Fire Services Resource Mobilization assistance for the Leahy Fire in Walla Walla County ended as of August 7 at 1:00 p.m.
Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste authorized the mobilization of state firefighting resources on August 4 at the request of Douglas County Fire District 3. | | FULL STORY | |
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| | | HOT WEATHER IS TIME OF OPPORTUNITY FOR CAR PROWLERS | | | August 06, 2010 | | (SKY VALLEY) -- It happens to the best of us. It’s blistery hot summer day, we walk away from the car with just enough window rolled down to let out heat AND let in a car prowler.
A prowler who happens to grab that nice leather bag with our wallet and laptop in it that we left in the back on the floor (covered with a newspaper so no one would see it) “just for second” while we ran inside for just a moment to grab something. | | FULL STORY | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | INDEX, BARING, SKYKOMISH NEWS | | | | | CLIMBER'S COALITION CEMENTS THE DEAL
"Lower Index Town Wall" rock climbing area to be preserved for furure generations | | August 29, 2010 | | (INDEX, WA) -- It’s been a while coming but the deal is done. The Washington Climbers Coalition (WCC) announced Friday that it has succeeded in its campaign to buy the Index Lower Town Wall, a premier rock climbing area near Index in the upper Sky Valley of Snohomish County.
“Climbers have been working for more than fifteen years to buy the Lower Town Wall” said Darryl Cramer, a WCC board member and guidebook author who has climbed at the Lower Town Wall for nearly 30 years. “We’ve pulled it off and ensured that the Lower Town Wall will remain open to climbing forever.” | | FULL STORY | |
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| | | | | | INDEX ARTS FESTIVAL IS SAT. AUGUST 7 | | August 06, 2010 | | (INDEX, WA) -- The 7th Annual Index Arts Festival rolls out Saturday, August 7th in one of the jewels of the upper Sky Valley, Index, Washington (of course).
This year’s festivities take place from 10am to 6 pm (with live music from 10am to 10 pm) in the bustling metropality of downtown Index.. | | FULL STORY | |
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| | | REITER FOREST REDEVELOPMENT CONTINUES | | August 01, 2010 | | (INDEX, WA) -- Preliminary trail development continues at the Reiter Forest between Gold Bar and Index. DNR (the state department of natural resources) held another work party July 18 at which about a dozen volunteers came out to continue working on preliminary trail layout in the motorcycle and quad areas.
Volunteers also brushed several preliminary trail locations for 4x4s to provide easy access for the DNR and consultant design team. | | FULL STORY | |
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