The Taste of Tulalip’s second annual “Tweet-Up” drew 31 Twitterers to the Orca Ballroom of the Tulalip Resort on Oct. 12, up from 26 last year, with a considerable wait-list of “foodies” who had hoped to sample sneak previews of the dishes that will be served at the third annual Taste of Tulalip on Nov. 11-12.
A proclamation by Marysville’s mayor kicked off a full week of community service by local DECA students.
Illegal drug use received a spotlight during the first in a planned series of public interest forums for the Marysville community.
MARYSVILLE — Michael Thorn opened Marysville Tobacco Joes two months ago with an eye toward helping his customers cut down on the amount of their money that literally goes up in smoke.
“We all know the price of purchasing smokes is through the roof,” said Thorn, the owner of Tobacco Joes on the corner of State Avenue and Fifth Street. “You can save your money by rolling your own smokes, using our roll-your-own filling station.”
MARYSVILLE — A routine traffic stop randomly coincided with a narcotics bust that Marysville Police had already planned.
“We’d started planning it just last week,” Marysville Police Sgt. Brad Akau said on Oct. 12, just outside a house in the 3800 block of 80th Street NE. “We’d had a briefing on this just prior to one of our patrols pulling over the car here. They just happened to stop here.”
Since the last week in September, Pinewood Elementary has been conducting an experiment in health and fitness, and to judge from the response of the more than 50 students who have chosen to turn out for the twice-weekly all-volunteer program, many of the school’s fourth- and fifth-graders are ready to embrace it.
With two propositions slated for next February’s ballot, the Lakewood School District took the time to explain to the community what’s at stake. Lakewood Middle School hosted a “School Finances and Information Fair” on Oct. 4, for the community to learn more about these two proposed ballot measures.
No matter how much Dave Grinnell struggled with his studies growing up, he could always find solace in his enthusiasm for automobiles. When Grinnell was told that he could no longer pursue his previous career in construction due to the wear and tear that it had put on his body, he thought back to his youthful love of classic cars and souped-up rigs, and realized that he had an opportunity to help out the kids of today who face scholastic challenges similar to those he overcame.
I am writing to encourage the voters of the city of Marysville to retain Jon Nehring as Mayor of Marysville.
MARYSVILLE — A robbery suspect found his flight from the law short-lived on the afternoon of Oct. 6.
Marysville Police Detective Sgt. Deryck McLeod reported that a call came in at 4:37 p.m. of a robbery at the Radio Shack in the 1300 block of State Avenue.
“From there, the robbery suspect fled across the railroad tracks and our Pro-Act Team officers gave chase,” McLeod said.
LAKEWOOD — The Plant Farm at Smokey Point is once again covered in pumpkins, but the Rotary Club of Marysville’s annual “Pumpkins for Literacy” program has a few new wrinkles this year.
“We’ve got four weekends instead of three this year for our pumpkin patch,” Marysville Rotary Past President Gayl Spilman said of the event, which kicks off on Oct. 8 and runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days a week, through Halloween, Oct. 31. “We still have the bouncy houses and the hay and train rides, though.”
In spite of the day’s gray skies and slight drizzle, the Roy Robinson Chevrolet, Subaru and RV Center in Tulalip drew hundreds of children on Oct. 1 for their first “Child Safety Day.” Families took advantage of the free “DNA LifePrint” biometric fingerprinting and identification kits that were the centerpiece of the day, and obtained them for a total of 130 kids.
What began as a comparison of policy ideas and accomplishments in office between the two candidates for Snohomish County Executive dipped into the territory of character attacks near the end of their joint appearance in front of the Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce on Sept. 30.
