The Marysville School District’s community engagement events on Tuesday, May 14, and Thursday, May 16, drew as many as 70 and 50 attendees, respectively, as part of what MSD Board President Chris Nation deemed “phase two” of the district’s current transition.
The annual Marysville Bark For Life at Asbery Field raised an estimated $5,000 on Saturday, May 18, with 52 dog-walkers who signed up online and roughly another 20 who showed up the morning of the event with their canine companions in tow.
A full-grown mountain lion, two wolves, an alligator and a king cobra were just a few of the wild creatures that made an appearance in Grace Academy’s gym on Friday, May 17, for the Predators of the Heart wildlife exhibit.
Herman Williams Sr. is a former Tulalip Tribal Chair, Marysville School Board Director, Marysville High School ASB President and football quarterback. He is an artist, painter, musician, fisherman and storyteller. And now, he is adding one more title to his list of influence in the Marysville and Tulalip areas — Strawberry Festival Grand Marshal.
The city of Marysville commemorated Peace Officers’ Memorial Day in a somber ceremony on the morning of Wednesday, May 15, at the Police Officers and Firefighters Memorial just outside of the Marysville Library.
The filing period to run in the Aug. 5 primary election and the Nov. 5 general election ended May 17 and saw a number of candidates file to run for a variety of local offices.
MARYSVILLE — As of 12:41 p.m. on Tuesday, May 21, Marysville Police officers have apprehended a suspect whom they’d been attempting to contact earlier in the day, who was driving recklessly and whom officers knew to have outstanding warrants.
MARYSVILLE — The city of Marysville is one of eight communities in the Pacific Northwest recently awarded a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to assess, clean up and revitalize regional brownfield properties.
TULALIP — At approximately 10:23 p.m. on Friday, May 17, multiple calls were made to 911 from residents in the area of the 900 block of 43rd Street NW in Tulalip, which is near to Potlatch Beach, and adjacent to the Priest Point area of Puget Sound. Multiple residents reported hearing someone from the water screaming for help.
MARYSVILLE — The closure of SR 529 Ebey Slough Bridge planned for May 17-19 has been canceled.
MARYSVILLE — The Marysville offices of Keller Williams Realty commemorated the chain’s annual “Red Day” of locally focused community service on Thursday, May 9, by fixing up the home of a Marysville family that’s fallen on hard times with the economy.
The drama club at Grace Academy spent more than four months preparing for its performance of Agatha Christie’s ‘The Mouse Trap’ — the play that would also be the last for drama teacher and director Phyllis Rice, who retires at the end of the school year.
The Marysville School District’s Board of Directors and superintendent met with those of the Arlington, Everett and Mount Vernon school districts on Saturday, May 11, at the Byrnes Performing Arts Center in Arlington to take a tentative new method of measuring superintendent performance out for a test drive.
