My drive home takes me up Highway 528 to where I opt for turning south on 83rd or easing through the construction zone to Highway 9. Curiosity always wins and I endure flaggers’ hold-ups to see what’s going on.
TULALIP — Hank Gobin, an elder of the Tulalip Tribes, passed away on April 25 at the age of 71.
Nighttime drivers who use southbound State Route 529 between Marysville and Everett will need to use an alternate route this week.
MARYSVILLE — Just before noon on Monday, April 29, a 30-year-old male suspect from Snohomish County reportedly fired shots at Marysville Police officers after a vehicle pursuit that began in Marysville and ended in Everett with the suspect being taken into custody.
The city of Marysville is seeking citizens interested in serving on the Salary Commission.
The citizens of Marysville made a “Clean Sweep” of the weekend prior to this year’s Earth Day with volunteers literally taking to the streets, as well as the neighborhoods and the parks, to help beautify the community on Saturday, April 20.
The second annual Opportunity Expo saw a surge of attendees in the morning followed by relatively sparser crowds later in the day on Tuesday, April 16, but Marysville School District officials and students from a number of different districts touted the value of the event’s offerings.
Dr. Robert Ballard discovered the sunken wreckage of the Titanic in 1985, but rather than rest on his laurels he’s started programs designed to allow future generations to make far more significant discoveries after he’s gone, and he wants to give the kids at the Tulalip Boys & Girls Club a chance to count themselves among those explorers.
ARLINGTON — The Getchell Firefighters Association’s annual pancake breakfast took on a collateral duty on Saturday, April 20, as the firefighters and emergency medical technicians of Getchell Fire Station 68 raised funds not only for themselves, but also for their fellow firefighters and EMTs in West, Texas, in the wake of the deadly fertilizer plant explosion on Wednesday, April 17.
MARYSVILLE — A claim that a special education second-grader was put in a closet for a closed-door “timeout” earlier in April has resulted in two special education staff members, a teacher and an educational aide, being placed on paid administrative leave from Marshall Elementary until further notice.
MARYSVILLE — Plans for a new roundabout on a busy stretch of State Route 9 are taking shape, and local drivers and residents are invited to attend an open house to learn more about it. On Wednesday, April 24, the public will have an opportunity to review plans for the roundabout at the intersection of SR 9 and 84th Street NE (Getchell Road), look at before-and-after images and talk with Washington State Department of Transportation staff.
MARYSVILLE — Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring honored Jodi Hiatt and Carol Kapua as the Volunteers of the Month for March for their hard work and dedication to the community’s crown jewel of events, the Marysville Strawberry Festival.
TULALIP — The discovery of a suspicious object at the Tulalip Resort Hotel and Casino on the evening of Tuesday, April 16, was met with caution in the wake of the Boston bombing on the previous day, but no one was harmed by the object.
