The Monroe Monitor & Valley News, Monroe's community newspaper since 1899, is available on microfilm from 1899 through 1995 with the exception of the years of 1919, 1922, 1946 and 1963 (unfortunately, the newspapers for those years were missing from the Monroe Monitor archives when the newspapers were microfilmed) at the Monroe Historical Society Museum. However, the Society's microfilm reader is old and fragile and therefore is not available for public use, and we do not have microfilm photocopy capability. If you want copies of articles or obituaries from these microfilm files, we suggest you contact the other libraries first as we would have to charge a substantial fee for that service because we would have to travel some distance to get the copies made.

To research the Monroe Monitor's, we suggest the following libraries where microfilm copies for all or some of those years are also available: Northwest Room of the Everett Public Library (1923-40, 1945, 1949-62, 1976, 1991-94), the University of Washington's Suzzallo Library (complete), and the Washington State Library (complete), which continues to microfilm the newspaper and keeps the hard copy until they do. The Monroe Public Library keeps a hard copy of the last five years, and the Monroe Historical Society maintains hard copies dating back to the 1970s and before, although they are by no means complete. When checking library catalogs, also check these titles: Monroe Monitor, Monroe Transcript, (Sultan) Valley News, and Monroe Monitor-Transcript. The microfilm reels should also be available through interlibrary loan. The Sultan Valley News (see also Sultan Star) before it merged with the Monroe Monitor is not available at the Museum. However, the hard copies that were available (there are large gaps in the collection) were also microfilmed at the same time as the Monitors and should be available at Suzzallo Library, and the Washington State Library.