Reuben Watkins got into hairstyling because he wanted to improve people’s moods, and he’s opened the Kings and Queens Barber and Beauty Shop in Quil Ceda Village to fill what he sees as an untapped need in the area.
Shoultes Elementary’s second annual play kicked off March 18-19, as 35 actors and 45 choir members from the school’s student body came together to stage an epic production of “Peter Pan.”
The 2010 Marysville Strawberry Festival April Friesner Memorial Royalty Scholarship Pageant was packed with so many candidates that only six of the 14 Junior Royalty candidates appeared in the speeches and talent portions of the program, which still left those finalists and nine Senior Royalty candidates sharing the stage of the Marysville-Pilchuck High School auditorium March 20.
Four communities came together March 20 to honor the service of America’s military members in a unique ceremony started by an area service member who was home on leave for a couple of weeks.
The Red Caboose at the corner of Cedar Avenue and Fourth Street, which sustained significant damage from a fire July 19 of last year, left the landscape of Marysville March 22.
On March 10, 10-year-old Emily Norman suffered injuries that sent her to Harborview Medical Center. On March 20, friends and neighbors of the Norman family staged a fundraiser for Emily that drew more than $2,500.
The Marysville Library has five laptops ready for job hunters to use, but even though they’ve been available since February, the library is still looking to get the word out.
The third-annual Senior Legacy Auction offered attendees an opportunity to get a hands-on look at one of the learning tools for which funds were being raised.
When Mary Swenson started working for the city of Marysville in September of 1977, the Marysville City Hall and Council Chambers occupied one corner of what’s now the Ken Baxter Senior Community Center, along with the local library and the police department’s offices, dispatch center and jail.
An estimated 50 Marysville Rotarians descended upon the elementary schools of Marysville and Lakewood March 5, bearing hard-bound gifts that they hope will keep on giving the gift of knowledge.
Shelby Hintze and Danny Stokes have been named the Marysville Soroptimist and Kiwanis students of the month for February.
“I’ll finally be able to sit down and read a book!” laughed Mary Burns, owner of the BookWorks on Third Street, about her impending retirement.
The Marysville School District Board of Directors voted to replace Totem Middle School’s principal, but keep its staff, to qualify for federal grant money aimed at turning around the nation’s lowest-performing schools.
