MARYSVILLE — The Marysville Historical Society will be bustling with activity during the Marysville Street Festival: Handmade & Homegrown from Aug. 9-11 and beyond.
LAKEWOOD — The Faith Lutheran Church of Lakewood started the Hot August Car Show nine years ago to help support two local food banks, and while its numbers of entrants have declined over the years, the event’s organizers still see the spirit of community giving as strong as ever among those who show off their cars and those who come by to check them out.
While event organizers acknowledged that it got off to a slightly modest start, the Marysville YMCA’s first Summer Art Fair was soon bustling with onlookers in the parking lot outside of the Y and its adjacent Youth Development Center on the afternoon of Saturday, July 27, taking advantage of the milling crowds that had been drawn by the flea market in that same location.
TULALIP — “Jobs, jobs, jobs” was how John Lovick described his focus to the Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce on Friday, July 26, but during the Chamber’s Business Before Hours meeting that morning, the recently appointed Snohomish County Executive also recalled examples of leadership from his own life, as he told the Chamber members that they were the leaders of their community.
For two years after his ailing health forced him to retire from his full-time duties as the School Resource Officer for the Tulalip Tribal Police Department and the Marysville School District, Larry Groom was still able to put in part-time hours in his former position, but on Friday, July 26, he left the job for good due to his worsening condition.
The members of the Puget Sound Blood Center’s “Bloodmobile” and American Legion Post 178 in Marysville exceeded their goal of 33 donors for their blood drive on Saturday, July 20, at the Post 178 Hall, which Legion members presented to visitors as a resource that’s available to the community as a whole.
The 16th annual “Dalmatian Drive” offered the return of an old tradition on Saturday, July 20, as the yard behind Marysville Fire District Station 63 in Smokey Point served as the site for a “family fun day,” complete with barbecue meals, athletic activities on bouncy structures, DJ music and even free hair and nail styling.
Another summer marks another set of complaints about the odors allegedly emanating from Cedar Grove Composting’s Smith Island facility, which was cited for two odor violations on June 6 and another two on June 25 by the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.
MARYSVILLE — Former Marysville Police Officer Derek Carlile was fired by the city of Marysville in May of this year, after his daughter died in March of last year from being shot by a handgun that he’d left unattended, but the Marysville Police Officers Association has filed a grievance on Carlile’s behalf and an arbitration hearing is tentatively set for this fall.
The “Rodz on 3rd” car show returned to downtown Marysville for its second year on Saturday, July 13, adding one street block to its showing space and exceeding its attendance from last year.
The parking lot of the Marysville Municipal Court was filled with at least 2,000 shoppers perusing the wares of 70 vendors for the city’s third annual “Junk in the Trunk” flea market on Saturday, July 13.
After drawing an estimated total of more than 100 attendees to Third Street and its surrounding environs last fall, the Marysville Arts Coalition and the Downtown Marysville Merchants Association showcased an assortment of area artists in their shops for a second “Art Walk” on Thursday, July 11.
Dr. Becky Berg was sworn in and presided over her first Marysville School Board meeting as superintendent of the school district on Monday, July 8, and as she took the seat of her new role, she was acutely conscious of the legacy that she has to live up to.
