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Rivers are expected to keep rising

Published January 8, 2009, 12:01 am, Everett Herald

MONROE -- Bob Wolf is having a winter Job could understand. November brought floods. December snow crushed his greenhouses. Now, rising flood waters again threaten his nursery business and livestock.

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