I am absolutely thrilled with the Marysville Globe and Arlington Times taking the progressive step of delivering their excellent newspapers free to our community. I am a long-time Marysville resident, mother, grandmother, public school teacher and community activist and have long appreciated the excellent news coverage of the papers as well as their dedication to community building. I was gratified to read Bob Graefs excellent and tolerant piece on the Ruckus over Illegal Immigrants and was so excited that it would be read by many more people because of this bold move for free subscriptions by our home-town newspapers.
A public media article of 11/29/07 started with the quotation U.S. fourth graders have lost ground in reading ability compared with kids around the world Let this be the epitath to the political careers of public school educrats and school board members.
As a staff member at Archbishop Murphy High School, I feel compelled to respond to three claims in a recent sports opinion article (Football Karma? Nov. 28).
Punitive laws often remain on the books long after their usefulness. The 3-Strikes laws are a case in point if, in fact, they were ever useful. Some 22 states that had adopted them have since changed them when they realized the injustices and the extreme expense connected to them.
Our Arlington Library gives us access to large collections of books, newspapers, magazines, movies and music. It hosts book clubs, performances and art, all for our education and entertainment and all free to use. We have important reasons to support funding a new library.
As a child growing up in Seattle I was always fascinated by the downtown library on Fourth Avenue. Even though I did not check anything out, I enjoyed wandering through and just looking at all of the books on the shelves.
Three members of the Snohomish County Council took a very difficult stand this week and tried to institute a moratorium on Fully Contained Communities, Brian Sullivan, Dave Somers and Mike Cooper.
I strongly support the Arlington Library bond and ask all concerned citizens to do so.
I am sending this letter to encourage people to vote Yes for the new library.
The Nov. 20th Herald article talks about the Marysville Grove Elementary School. This is a campus for 550 students on 10 acres.
I wish to thank all the people of the greater Marysville area for making our annual Christmas tree recycling a success. Your generous contributions to Boy Scout Troops 80, 81, 82, 84 and 419 help them to continue to provide a quality program for the boys.
I just received my 2008 Real Estate Tax statement. I was shocked by the fact that Snohomish County had raised my property taxes by over 13 percent. I immediately called several friends, who stated the same thing.
Examining one editorialists rant: he doth protest too much, me thinks.
