MARYSVILLE — Friday, Oct. 14, will mark a furlough day for Marysville teachers and an early release day for students.
Because the state Legislature cut teacher salaries by 1.9 percent, this day will allow teachers to work fewer hours, and thereby receive less pay, in the same way as state and county employees.
MARYSVILLE — A routine traffic stop randomly coincided with a narcotics bust that Marysville Police had already planned.
“We’d started planning it just last week,” Marysville Police Sgt. Brad Akau said on Oct. 12, just outside a house in the 3800 block of 80th Street NE. “We’d had a briefing on this just prior to one of our patrols pulling over the car here. They just happened to stop here.”
Since the last week in September, Pinewood Elementary has been conducting an experiment in health and fitness, and to judge from the response of the more than 50 students who have chosen to turn out for the twice-weekly all-volunteer program, many of the school’s fourth- and fifth-graders are ready to embrace it.
With two propositions slated for next February’s ballot, the Lakewood School District took the time to explain to the community what’s at stake. Lakewood Middle School hosted a “School Finances and Information Fair” on Oct. 4, for the community to learn more about these two proposed ballot measures.
The Washington Rampage of the American Basketball Association are a month from the start of their inaugural season. Kinshasa Martin, owner of the Rampage, wants you to be involved.
MARYSVILLE — The Marysville Police and Parks and Recreation departments are partnering with the Marysville Community Coalition to conduct a new series of public forums designed to increase public awareness and share resources with residents regarding illegal, environmental and social changes occurring within the community.
The scheduled forums are “Recognition and Reporting of Illegal Drug Use” on Tuesday, Oct. 11, and “Have a Safe and Crime-Free Holiday Season” on Tuesday, Nov. 15.
At approximately 5 p.m., Thursday, Marysville Police made an arrest in connection with the theft of Takoda, a Siberian Husky which was stolen out of its yard in Marysville on Sept. 24. The dog was reunited with its owners earlier this week when Marysville Police were contacted by an attorney that was representing an unnamed client who was in possession of the dog.
MARYSVILLE — The Marysville School District will be conducting another information night for Spanish-speaking parents on Oct. 18. The MSD Board room at 4220 80th St. NE will serve as the site for the meeting from 6-9 p.m.
Wendy Messarina, the district’s Spanish parent/community liaison, explained that the goal of the ELL family info nights is to provide Spanish-speaking attendees with information about the services offered by the school district, as well as resources available to them in the community.
MARYSVILLE — Incumbent Jon Nehring and challenger Kelly Wright will face off on the issues Oct. 19, as the “OUR Marysville” group conducts a debate between the two candidates for Marysville mayor.
Members of “OUR Marysville” — with “OUR” standing for “Organization United for Reform” — have reserved the large meeting room in the Marysville Library for the debate, which will kick off at 7 p.m. on Oct. 19.
MARYSVILLE — A robbery suspect found his flight from the law short-lived on the afternoon of Oct. 6.
Marysville Police Detective Sgt. Deryck McLeod reported that a call came in at 4:37 p.m. of a robbery at the Radio Shack in the 1300 block of State Avenue.
“From there, the robbery suspect fled across the railroad tracks and our Pro-Act Team officers gave chase,” McLeod said.
LAKEWOOD — The Plant Farm at Smokey Point is once again covered in pumpkins, but the Rotary Club of Marysville’s annual “Pumpkins for Literacy” program has a few new wrinkles this year.
“We’ve got four weekends instead of three this year for our pumpkin patch,” Marysville Rotary Past President Gayl Spilman said of the event, which kicks off on Oct. 8 and runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days a week, through Halloween, Oct. 31. “We still have the bouncy houses and the hay and train rides, though.”
In spite of the day’s gray skies and slight drizzle, the Roy Robinson Chevrolet, Subaru and RV Center in Tulalip drew hundreds of children on Oct. 1 for their first “Child Safety Day.” Families took advantage of the free “DNA LifePrint” biometric fingerprinting and identification kits that were the centerpiece of the day, and obtained them for a total of 130 kids.
What began as a comparison of policy ideas and accomplishments in office between the two candidates for Snohomish County Executive dipped into the territory of character attacks near the end of their joint appearance in front of the Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce on Sept. 30.
