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About this series:
Through New Year's Eve, The Olympian looks back at events and issues that made 2001 "A Year Like No Other".
Dec. 23: Health care woes left many patients without options.
Dec. 25: The Nisqually Earthquake and how South Sound has recovered.
Dec. 26: The Legislature spent year in stalemate, compounded by budget woes.
Dec. 27: How local businesses fared in this year's downward economy.
Dec. 28: Cases of killer-rapist Joseph Rosenow & suspected killer Michael Braae.
Dec. 29: Plans for a downtown conference center have advanced and retreated.
Dec. 30: The Mariners won a record games, yet lost the ones that counted.
Dec. 31: How South Sound have coped in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.


click here for the full story 2001: Rising from the ruins
Originally published December 31, 2001
OLYMPIA -- It's been less than four months since Sept. 11, the day that changed everything.
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Related links:
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Sept. 11, 2001 Photos
- Terror in America section


click here for the full story M's great season almost greater
Originally published December 30, 2001
No matter what the baseball experts or your next-door neighbor might say, no one had any idea that 2001 would be the year of the Seattle Mariners. click here for the full story

Related links:
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Mariners: Season 2001


Hopes for new center still alive
Originally published December 29, 2001
OLYMPIA -- It's been a year of feast or famine, drought or flood in South Sound, and the efforts to create a conference center in Olympia have followed a similar ebb-and-flow pattern.
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click here for the full story 2001 a year for murder, old and new
Originally published December 28, 2001
The year 2001 saw a break in a series of Western Washington slayings that had been one of the most notorious strings of unsolved murders in American history.
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click here for the full story Yelm woman believed shot by Braae forever damaged
Originally published December 28, 2001
THURSTON COUNTY -- Marchelle Morgan can talk and walk, but the Yelm woman who was shot in the head earlier this year will never be the same, her sister said.
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click here for the full story Raging economy finally lost its breath in 2001
Originally published December 27, 2001

THURSTON COUNTY -- Like much of the nation, South Sound cruised into 2001 with a zesty confidence.

The economy was humming, jobs were bountiful and the Y2K bugaboo had been dispelled.

The new millennium seemed vanquished before it really began.

So it seemed. click here for the full story


click here for the full story Legislature's year mired in deadlock
Originally published December 26, 2001
OLYMPIA -- One story told in the halls of the 2001 Legislature went this way: Lawmakers weren't really living through one of the state's longest and most paralyzing sessions on record. click here for the full story


click here for the full story Downtown stores rebound from quake
Originally published December 25, 2001
OLYMPIA -- Ten months after the Nisqually Earthquake rocked South Sound, business and city leaders say downtown took its licks but still stands tall. click here for the full story


Related link: Emergency Preparedness


click here for the full story Stormy year for health care
Originally published December 23, 2001
THURSTON COUNTY -- If the condition of health care in South Sound were depicted in paintings, 2001 would have begun as a gray day with storm clouds on the horizon -- but with a hopeful ray of sunshine breaking through the clouds. click here for the full story

Related link: HEALTH CARE IN CRISIS

 




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