MARYSVILLE — The Marysville Free Methodist Church and the Set-Free Movement will be sponsoring a Set-Free Walk on Saturday, Sept. 7, starting in the upper parking lot of the church with a rally at 9:30 a.m. and the actual walk following at 10 a.m., to increase awareness of modern day human trafficking and to raise money for a seed fund for the Peoria Home initiative.
MARYSVILLE — The students of Liberty Elementary are starting the new school year with a freshly repainted playground, and while many of its lines were repainted by members of the Grove Church in Marysville, who also worked on the school’s track, one of the blacktop’s most visible features was repainted by an area Boy Scout and half a dozen fellow volunteers, whose five hours of painting on Aug. 3 took months of preparations to make happen.
MARYSVILLE — American Legion Post 178 will partner with Carr’s Hardware on Third Street to host the Post’s annual flag retirement ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 7, starting at 10:30 a.m. in the empty lot adjacent to 1521 Second Ave. in Marysville, just south of Carr’s Hardware.
MARYSVILLE — Soroptimist International of Marysville has inducted its Board members for the 2013-14 year, which they’re kicking off by reaching out to the community this fall.
MARYSVILLE — A 45-minute walk into the wetlands just south of Marysville culminated in the ceremonial turning of shovelfuls of earth on the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 27, to mark that the Qwuloolt Estuary Restoration Project is officially underway.
Allen Creek Elementary’s annual spring cleaning was moved from the spring to the late summer this year, but in spite of the shift in schedule and the day’s early morning drizzle on Saturday, Aug. 24, a crowd of parents, students, faculty and community members descended on the campus to spruce it up in time for the start of the 2013-14 school year on Sept. 4.
he good news from the Monday, Aug. 26, public meeting at Lakewood High School was that the main high school building could be fully renovated, and new classrooms could be added to replace its aging secondary buildings and portables, without raising the current tax rates for homeowners living within the Lakewood School District.
TULALIP — City of Arlington Natural Resources Manager Bill Blake and Arlington City Council member Ken Klein remained complimentary and cordial to one another throughout the Snohomish County Council Candidates’ Forum hosted by the Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce on Friday, Aug. 23.
MARYSVILLE — Marysville Library patrons will find a number of their regular services interrupted from Tuesday, Sept. 3, through Thursday, Sept. 5, as a new “Creative Commons” set of spaces is installed on site.
MARYSVILLE — U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen saw how local volunteers seek to meet the needs of their neighbors during a morning tour of the Marysville Community Food Bank on Friday, Aug. 23.
Those looking for a more transparent government are increasingly relying on public records to make it happen.
MARYSVILLE — The Klein family is calling all area Kleins, Kazens, Kruses, Knudsons, Otters and other families who might have married into the Kleins, so that they can all come together for the 44th annual Klein family picnic on Saturday, Sept. 14, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Jim and Bev Klein’s place in Marysville.
J.J. Edwards doesn’t want any other mother to suffer the loss she experienced when her 10-year-old stepson, Elijah Spratt, drowned on the Stillaguamish River on June 30.
