After more than a decade of paying its dues, a rock band made up of Marysville natives is finally getting its shot at the big time.
MARYSVILLE — The attorneys and witnesses in Judge Fred Gillings’ courtroom at the Marysville Municipal Court on Jan. 27 conducted themselves so professionally that those who sat in the jury box for their trials commented upon how well they delivered their testimonies and presented their cases.
What made this especially notable was that none of the attorneys presenting their cases or the witnesses delivering their testimonies had graduated from high school yet.
Two teams of eighth-grade students from the 10th Street School in Marysville competed against opposing teams of ninth-graders from Archbishop Murphy High School in a YMCA Youth and Government Mock Trial. The morning’s trial pitted student prosecutors from 10th Street against student defense attorneys from Archbishop Murphy, while the afternoon’s trial put 10th Street on the defense against Archbishop Murphy’s prosecution.
TULALIP — Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring’s first “State of the City” address focused on the city of Marysville’s plans for long-term financial stability and some of the developments that its citizens can expect this year.
Many attendees of the Jan. 28 Business Before Hours, conducted by the Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce, reacted favorably to Nehring’s optimistic prognosis of Marysville’s progress and future.
This year’s Jet City Tattoo Expo packed the Orca Ballroom at the Tulalip Resort Hotel and Casino Jan. 21-23, as tattoo artists from across the country applied their ink to tattoo aficionados from throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring will deliver the “State of the City” address for 2011 to the Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce on Jan. 28.
Nehring’s first “State of the City” address as mayor will serve as the main event for the Chamber’s Business Before Hours meeting at the Tulalip Resort Casino from 7-9 a.m.
The Tulalip Tribes have spent more than $300,000 a year on smoking cessation programs for Tribal members and the surrounding community, and a recent grant from the Tribes will give kids throughout the county a firsthand look at the damage done by smoking and other unhealthy lifestyle choices.
The year has barely begun and the students of the Marysville Arts and Technology High School Robotics Team are already well into their six-week “build season” for their regional competition this spring.
The city of Marysville is bringing world-renowned adventurer Helen Thayer to town on Feb. 11, to tell audiences about her trek to the magnetic North Pole when she made history by becoming the first woman to reach a world pole traveling solo.
LAKE GOODWIN — A float plane crash on Jan. 22 has left a 6-year-old boy dead.
First-grader Jacob Jeter of Anacortes was a passenger in the plane piloted by his 55-year-old father, which flipped upside down as it landed in Lake Goodwin. While Jeter’s father was able to escape, Jeter himself remained trapped under the water for an estimated 40 minutes before a diver from the Snohomish County Technical Water Rescue Team pulled him from the wreckage. Jeter was rushed to the Colby Campus of the Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, where he passed away at approximately 7:15 p.m. on Jan. 22. According to Kristen Thorstenson, public information officer for the Marysville Fire Department, the father did not require medical transport.
MARYSVILLE — The Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office has released information about the man who was struck and killed on southbound Interstate 5 near the 88th Street overpass in Marysville on Jan. 18.
Joshua J. Irwin, a 27-year-old Arlington resident, died of multiple visceral lacerations and bony fractures from blunt impacts to the head, truck and extremities, according to the Medical Examiner’s Office, which deemed the death an accident.
The postponement of varsity athletics at the Marysville Getchell High School campus proved to be one of the areas of greatest concern among community members who attended the Marysville School District’s public forum Jan. 13.
Tears and laughter were abundant during the “Taste of Relay” Jan. 15, which marked the kickoff of the fundraising season for the 2011 Marysville/Tulalip Relay for Life.
MARYSVILLE — Moses “Mose” Davis will reach a landmark on Jan. 22, and his family hopes all his friends will help him celebrate it.
Mose was born in Paintsville, Ky., on Jan. 22, 1911, and 100 years later to the day, the Davis family home will serve as the site for his centennial birthday, from 1-4 p.m.
