The Lakewood High School Drama Department will be bringing a taste of Southern-fried culture to their auditorium this month, when they stage two weekend showings of “Steel Magnolias” as a student play.
The Marysville Care Center invited city officials, care center residents and physical therapists to celebrate the grand opening of its new outpatient therapy gym.
Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring took part in the gym’s ribbon-cutting ceremony on April 14, which was followed by an open house showcasing the facility’s benefits to the community.
Most of the members of the new Lakewood High School Mountain Bike Club started without a cycling background, according to head coach Kristi Berg, but in two months’ time, they progressed from learning the basics of mountain biking to racing successfully enough to be recognized as among the best in the state.
For once, the Marysville community was able to stage a “green day” during the weekend following Earth Day in some pleasant weather.
April 30 saw a large turnout at the Marysville Municipal Court parking lot for the city’s annual Shred Day, with city of Marysville Community Information Officer Doug Buell reporting that 300 cars had driven through by 10:15 a.m.
Tulalip Tribal Chair Mel Sheldon Jr. was quick to share credit with the surrounding community for the Tulalip Tribes’ prosperity in this year’s State of the Tribes address.
Elliot Carbajal’s family didn’t realize how committed he was to donating blood until he had passed on, and they’ve pledged to carry on his work for others.
The Arlington native died not long after turning 40, and according to brother Butch Carbajal, Elliot had donated blood for more than 20 years. Since his death, the rest of the Carbajal clan has conducted what’s become an annual donation drive on behalf of the Puget Sound Blood Center, which was supported by ServPro of Marysville and Smokey Point this year.
The Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce honored the hard work and long hours of more than 20 of its volunteers, with help from some friends.
What began as a student musical performance became a series of pleas on behalf of music in the Marysville School District.
The 10th Street Middle School Jazz Band performed a number of songs for attendees of the MSD Board of Directors’ April 18 meeting, before band director Nathan Sackman urged the Board to support music programs within the district, in terms that would be echoed by parents, alumni and other community members who had no idea that Sackman planned to express sentiments that mirrored their own.
Village Community Services offered a taste of “Wonderland” to 165 attendees of its ninth annual “Taste of Decadence.”
While the April 9 fundraiser collected approximately $15,000, roughly equal to last year’s total, with this year’s theme of “Alice in Wonderland,” VCS Resource Development Manager Michelle Dietz believes the evening’s message was at least as important as the monies it earned through its silent auctions of professionally made desserts and other donated items.
Chill winds and drizzling rain couldn’t keep kids away from Third Street or the Marysville YMCA’s healthy living events.
The Marysville Downtown Merchants Association and the Allen Creek Community Church jointly sponsored Third Street’s annual Fit-Tastic Easter Egg Hunt on April 16, the same day that the Marysville Y drew hundreds of attendees for its Healthy Kids Day.
Students at Cougar Creek Elementary will be getting hands-on lessons on growing potatoes and other plants thanks to donations from the Washington State Potato Commission.
On April 12, Cougar Creek Elementary teacher Elizabeth Zylstra received an oversized check for $1,000 from Karen Bonaudi of the Washington State Potato Commission, which will go toward supplies for the free greenhouse that the commission will also be awarding to the school.
After years of witnessing the aftermath of poor driving decisions, three Arlington Police Officers have decided to try and instill good driving habits into young drivers from the start.
Peter Barrett, Ronnie Johnstone and Seth Kinney plan to open the Marysville branch of the 911 Driving School by this May, but their journey toward their new business began two years ago when Kinney first suggested that they get certified as driving instructors.
MARYSVILLE — More than 50 protestors from around Snohomish County converged on the Marysville branch of Bank of America to call out what they saw as taxation inequities.
On this year’s tax deadline, April 18, residents of Marysville, Arlington, Everett and beyond carried signs and shouted slogans on State Avenue, at the intersections of Fourth and Fifth avenues, accusing Bank of America and other corporations of not paying their fair share of taxes.
