Since other Marysville schools have made campus cleanups part of their back-to-school preparations, the students, staff and parents of Kellogg Marsh Elementary decided to follow suit for the first time this year and benefited from some genuinely summery weather while they were doing it.
U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen knows very well how many citizens feel about Congress right now, and he told the members of the Rotary Club of Marysville that he sympathizes with his constituents’ frustrations.
Soroptimist International of Marysville has inducted its Board members for the 2011-12 year, which they’re kicking off by reaching out to the community this fall. Marysville Soroptimist President Renae James and Vice President Teresa Trivett will serve alongside Board members Laura Fletcher, Jackie Van Assche, Debbie Elgin, Elaine Hanson, Val Hickok, Marge Due and Kathie Roon for the next year, as they focus on improving the lives of women and girls in the local communities and throughout the world.
During his nearly 40-year career in law enforcement, Larry Groom made friends whenever he went. As he officially retired from that career on Aug. 26, enough of those friends joined him to fill the old gym on the Tulalip Tribal Reservation.
Soroptimist International of Marysville has inducted its Board members for the 2011-12 year, which they’re kicking off by reaching out to the community this fall. Marysville Soroptimist President Renae James and Vice President Teresa Trivett will serve alongside Board members Laura Fletcher, Jackie Van Assche, Debbie Elgin, Elaine Hanson, Val Hickok, Marge Due and Kathie Roon for the next year, as they focus on improving the lives of women and girls in the local communities and throughout the world.
With close to 100 teams and approximately 3,500 players, the second annual Battle of Nations Stick Game Tournament hosted by the Tulalip Tribes remained spirited and audibly enthusiastic through both days of play.
The playgrounds of Allen Creek and Cascade elementary schools were bustling with activity under the summer sun, as Marysville School District students-to-be picked up much-needed supplied at the return of the annual Summer Jubilee on Aug. 20.
For the members of the Tulalip Tribes, the exhibits of the Hibulb Cultural Center are not dry relics from distant times, but vital items of personal significance that keep the memories of their families and ancestors alive as their culture moves forward into the future.
MARYSVILLE — Marysville School Board incumbent Darci Becker and challenger Pete Lundberg appear to be headed for the general election this fall.
In the wake of the Aug. 16 primary election, the results as of 4:17 p.m. on Aug. 19 show Becker, director of District 3 within the Marysville School District, with 2,605 votes, or 30.82 percent of the votes counted, and Lundberg with 2,866 votes, or 33.91 percent of the vote. Michael Hansen received 2,079 votes, or 24.6 percent of the votes counted, while Rod Rieger received 833 votes, or 9.86 percent of the votes counted. Write-ins received 68 votes, or 0.8 percent of the votes counted.
MARYSVILLE — With the start of the 2011-12 school year right around the corner, the annual “Summer Jubilee” is making another comeback to benefit Marysville School District students.
This year’s Summer Jubilee will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Aug. 20 at Allen Creek Elementary, located at 6505 60th Dr. NE, and Cascade Elementary, located at 5200 100th St. NE.
With close to 150 volunteers at six locations throughout town, the players, parents and coaches of Marysville Youth Football aimed to put a dent in their financial needs for the coming season through their first car wash fundraiser.
SMOKEY POINT — With a few shovels of turned earth, the goal of an I-5 over-crossing at 156th Street came one step closer to reality on Aug. 11.
“By next year we should be able to traipse over it for the first time,” said Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring, who was joined at the official groundbreaking ceremony at 156th Street NE and Smokey Point Boulevard by members of the Marysville City Council and city staff, as well as guests such as former Marysville Mayor Dennis Kendall and representatives for U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen.
Nehring recalled how the City Council had approved a construction bid of approximately $9.7 million by Renton-based Guy F. Atkinson Construction in June, as well as how Larsen had visited the planned construction site in February with city staff, including Marysville City Engineer John Cowling.
By connecting Smokey Point Boulevard to Twin Lakes Avenue across I-5, Nehring hopes not only to improve public safety and emergency response times, but also to ease traffic congestion on 172nd Street NE and provide another access point to attract as many as 10,000 light industrial and manufacturing jobs in north Marysville.
Marysville firefighter Ray Hancock was diagnosed more than a year ago with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as “Lou Gehrig’s disease,” but he hasn’t given up hope yet, and neither have his friends and fellow firefighters.
