MARYSVILLE — Marysville firefighters and Santa Claus will once again be teaming up this year to collect for the Marysville Community Food Bank.
Santa and the firefighters will be at the Marysville Safeway, located at 1258 State Ave., from 3-7 p.m on Dec. 5-8, so they encourage you to stop by and say hi.
TULALIP — The Tulalip Tribes will briefly close a portion of 27th Avenue, west of the Marysville Fourth Street and I-5 interchange, starting at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 23, and reopening about 12 hours later in the early hours of Thursday, Nov. 24.
In the coming year, Snohomish County Public Utility District expects its energy assistance programs to help more than 19,000 senior citizens and low-income customers struggling with their electric bills. The programs currently provide reductions of 20 percent, 40 percent or 60 percent off PUD electric and water bills. The discount percentage that a customer receives depends on their income level.
MARYSVILLE — Marysville Public Works, Police and Emergency Management personnel have been training, reviewing and preparing for when the season delivers its first winter storms, and they urge residents and businesses to also be prepared.
MARYSVILLE — The city of Marysville’s incumbent mayor appears likely to win his first election since being appointed to office by his predecessor.
As of Nov. 15 at 4:22 p.m., Jon Nehring is leading Kelly Wright in the Marysville mayor’s race by 8,907 votes, or 64.18 percent of the vote, to 4,935 votes, or 35.56 percent of the vote, out of 13,878 votes counted.
The Marysville community conducted so many commemorations of Veterans Day that it almost qualified as “Veterans Week.”
Lakewood High School paid tribute to 18 veterans in a special assembly on Nov. 9 in anticipation of the Nov. 11 Veterans Day holiday.
The “All City Food Drive” yielded a bountiful harvest for those in need during its return to Marysville on Nov. 5.
The Marysville Armed Forces Reserve Center is still a ways away from its official dedication, but the recently constructed facility is already serving those who serve.
SMOKEY POINT — Law enforcement will conduct extra DUI patrols in Snohomish County from Nov. 24 of this year through Jan. 2 of the New Year.
SMOKEY POINT — Arlington’s Atonement Free Lutheran Church and Marysville’s Amen Christian Bookstore will be serving as drop-off locations for the return of Operation Christmas Child, which aims to collect close to 900 gift-filled shoe boxes locally, packed with toys, school supplies and items of necessity for kids who are hurting in 100 countries.
MARYSVILLE — Marysville resident Fredrick Seton, 49, was sentenced on Nov. 4 in U.S. District Court in Seattle to six months in prison, one year of supervised release and $159,710 in restitution for willfully aiding and assisting in the preparation of materially false tax returns.
Seton pleaded guilty in June of this year, admitting that over the course of three years, between 2005-2007, he prepared and submitted 205 false tax returns for military service members, claiming false business deductions to reduce their taxable income.
MARYSVILLE — The coming of coal trains will serve as the subject for “The Coal Hard Truth,” a forum set for Nov. 17 in the Totem Middle School cafeteria.
According to event spokesperson Dan Klimke, its purpose is to inform the community of the potential impacts of those coal trains, as well as what the community might be able to do about them.
