Arlington students get education on solar energy, their own solar panel from Marysville company
Kirk Boxleitner
Stillaguamish Valley School student David Bennett, left, and Stu Frothingham of Silicon Energy help load up a solar panel from the company to the students' school as part of the Snohomish County Public Utility District mini-grant program for public education.
Senate Passes Gay Marriage Bill; House review next
As Senate President Brad Owens announced that the same-sex marriage bill, ESSB 6239, had passed, an anxious audience of hundreds watching attentively during tense floor debate erupted with applause.
Marysville Police investigating armed robbery of Tulalip woman
TULALIP — Marysville police are investigating the armed robbery of a 25-year-old Tulalip woman that occurred on the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 1.
Suspect in Marysville-area killing arrested
TULALIP — An arrest has been made in the death of Pat Buckmaster, whom detectives believe was killed during a burglary and robbery at 4319 Meridian Ave. N. in Marysville on Dec. 1, 2011.
MG, M-P swim and dive take on Kamiak | SLIDESHOW
Marysville Getchell and Marysville-Pilchuck boys swim and dive hosted undefeated Kamiak on Jan. 24 for a late-season showdown that would measure how the Chargers and Tomahawks compared to the Wesco’s best.
Tomahawks not able to overcome Eagles | SLIDESHOW
Tomahawk boys basketball hosted 4A North fifth-place Arlington on Jan. 24 seeking vengeance for the 75-50 drubbing they suffered at Arlington on Dec. 9.
Lakewood, Granite Falls face off in ‘Cat Fight’
The Lakewood Cougars and the Granite Falls Tigers faced off on the hardcourt, Jan. 28, for the annual “Cat Fight.”
Public school finance: Don’t waste this crisis!| OPINION
Look at a high school text book. Everything is first-class, or was when it was new. It’s tough, colorful, heavy and made to last. If you tried lugging a trade paperback to school and back every day it would be a mess of loose pages within a week or two. Library-rated bindings last longer but even they are no match for the durability of textbooks. Of course that level of quality costs a bundle so with school budgets in crisis you can be sure that school districts are squeezing one more year from nearly used up textbooks.
The Human Spectrum | GUEST OPINION
The strategy announced last week by The American Psychiatric Association to revise the definition of autism will effectively eliminate the autism “epidemic” simply by changing what we mean by the word autism itself. The APA’s strategy has two paradoxical outcomes. First, it neatly absolves society of the burden of supporting a significant population of people whose needs are not changed in the slightest by the clever redefinition of the label that describes them.
United Way of Snohomish County opens free tax preparation site in Marysville
MARYSVILLE — Last year, 2,231 Snohomish County working families had their taxes prepared for free at a United Way Tax Preparation Site, saving an estimated $368,000 in tax preparation fees. Approximately 84 percent of them received an average refund of $2,189, for a total of more than $4.1 million, including $1.1 million in Earned Income Tax Credits.
It's one of the reasons why Ron Foss of Marysville will be volunteering again to help people prepare their basic tax returns.
