MARYSVILLE — With the holidays just around the corner, volunteers are kicking off Operation Marysville Community Christmas, celebrating a 23-year tradition of neighbor helping neighbor through distribution of Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday food baskets and toys to families in need.
Photo movie of Halloween events around town. For reprints, click the link above.
Applications are now available for the Marysville Strawberry Festival April Friesner Memorial Royalty Scholarship Pageant. Sponsoring organization Maryfest, Inc., is looking for juniors and seniors from the Marysville and Lakewood school districts to participate in the Royalty Scholarship Pageant in March of 2009.
New flood warnings have been issued for the Snohomish River at Monroe and Snohomish.
Flood warnings were issued the morning of Nov. 7 for the Skykomish River at Gold Bar.
Twice a year, once in the spring and once again in the fall I teach a class here at the nursery on the basics of pruning.
A challenge for the technical crew, the Marysville-Pilchuck High School production of “Clue” brings to life the board-game characters of the high school students’ childhoods.
Arlington High School Choral Director Lyle Forde is seeking singers in the community to join a community choir to present Handel’s “Messiah,” this year, the first in the Byrnes Performing Arts Center.
It’s been a picture perfect autumn, a textbook October. With a moist summer, the trees were still thick with leaves when the first frosts hit, making for a very colorful fall. Bright yellow big leaf maple trees, and dark red Japanese maples. The sumac too were brilliant orange.
In 1998, Washington voters passed Initiative 688 by a large margin. It uncoupled our state’s minimum wage from the federal act and approved automatic annual increases. Those increases have outstripped the national standard, giving Washington the highest minimum wage in the country.
Thirty people, mainly representatives from several community churches and support groups, met at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Arlington Oct. 30 to assess the extent of homeless and other severely ‘at need’ individuals and families in the north county community.
