Allen Creek Elementary’s annual spring cleaning was moved from the spring to the late summer this year, but in spite of the shift in schedule and the day’s early morning drizzle on Saturday, Aug. 24, a crowd of parents, students, faculty and community members descended on the campus to spruce it up in time for the start of the 2013-14 school year on Sept. 4.
Its exact open date remains nebulous, but from its absence of back-to-school items and its already stocked shelves full of Halloween candy and spooky decorations, the Marysville Walmart at the intersection of Highway 9 and State Route 528 is opening sometime after the start of the new school year and before Halloween.
he good news from the Monday, Aug. 26, public meeting at Lakewood High School was that the main high school building could be fully renovated, and new classrooms could be added to replace its aging secondary buildings and portables, without raising the current tax rates for homeowners living within the Lakewood School District.
TULALIP — City of Arlington Natural Resources Manager Bill Blake and Arlington City Council member Ken Klein remained complimentary and cordial to one another throughout the Snohomish County Council Candidates’ Forum hosted by the Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce on Friday, Aug. 23.
MARYSVILLE — Marysville Library patrons will find a number of their regular services interrupted from Tuesday, Sept. 3, through Thursday, Sept. 5, as a new “Creative Commons” set of spaces is installed on site.
ARLINGTON — Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee was joined by Arlington Mayor Barbara Tolbert and other Arlington city officials as he officially dedicated the new location of OutBack Power Technologies in the Arlington Advanced Manufacturing Park with representatives of its company parent, the Alpha Group, on Thursday, Aug. 22.
MARYSVILLE — U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen saw how local volunteers seek to meet the needs of their neighbors during a morning tour of the Marysville Community Food Bank on Friday, Aug. 23.
MARYSVILLE — The Klein family is calling all area Kleins, Kazens, Kruses, Knudsons, Otters and other families who might have married into the Kleins, so that they can all come together for the 44th annual Klein family picnic on Saturday, Sept. 14, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Jim and Bev Klein’s place in Marysville.
J.J. Edwards doesn’t want any other mother to suffer the loss she experienced when her 10-year-old stepson, Elijah Spratt, drowned on the Stillaguamish River on June 30.
MARYSVILLE — Two local grocery stores hosted food drives for the Marysville Community Food Bank on Saturday, Aug. 17, that collected 800 pounds of food and $239 in cash between them, but the food drives’ organizers hope this will merely mark the start of a new season of giving for the Food Bank.
MARYSVILLE — Marysville Tobacco Joe’s has had a tumultuous history since it first opened its doors in 2011.
MARYSVILLE — For three years, the Bethlehem Lutheran Church of Marysville has conducted an annual “Hobby Fair” to help showcase its parishioners’ interests, but this year marked the first time that the event had been open to the surrounding community, on the afternoon of Saturday, Aug. 10.
MARYSVILLE — If the Red Curtain Foundation for the Arts can make its down payment of $20,000, they’ll have a new home in the facility formerly occupied by Dunn Lumber in Marysville.
