The Marysville School District is offering additional openings for tuition-based all-day kindergarten. Openings are available at Cascade and Shoultes elementary schools, located at the north end of the school district. Requests will be handled on a first-come, first serve basis. Families of students living outsides of the Cascade or Shoultes boundaries will be responsible to provide their own transportation as they reside outside of the neighborhood busing areas.
Soroptimist International of Marysville has inducted its Board members for the 2011-12 year, which they’re kicking off by reaching out to the community this fall. Marysville Soroptimist President Renae James and Vice President Teresa Trivett will serve alongside Board members Laura Fletcher, Jackie Van Assche, Debbie Elgin, Elaine Hanson, Val Hickok, Marge Due and Kathie Roon for the next year, as they focus on improving the lives of women and girls in the local communities and throughout the world.
“Tulalip Days” is returning to the Tulalip Reservation on Aug. 27, complete with the Tulalip Parade that’s part of its annual tradition. The parade will start at 10 a.m. on Aug. 27 and will pass by 6700 Totem Beach Rd., where the rest of the “Tulalip Days” activities will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
With close to 100 teams and approximately 3,500 players, the second annual Battle of Nations Stick Game Tournament hosted by the Tulalip Tribes remained spirited and audibly enthusiastic through both days of play.
Due to sidewalk construction activities, the southbound bus stop on the I-5 on-ramp at Fourth Street in Mayrsville will be closed for approximately six weeks starting Monday, Aug. 29. Buses will not be able to serve the stop during that time.
Marysville Parks maintenance crews recently installed adaptive swings in playgrounds at two of the city’s busiest parks that will make them far easier for children with disabilities to use. Thanks to an $1,800 donation from Soroptimist International of Marysville and the hard work of Marysville resident Jessie Atkins, Atkins’ 5-year-old son Stage and other parents with young children with disabilities will have a place to swing with a smile, park officials said.
The playgrounds of Allen Creek and Cascade elementary schools were bustling with activity under the summer sun, as Marysville School District students-to-be picked up much-needed supplied at the return of the annual Summer Jubilee on Aug. 20.
For the members of the Tulalip Tribes, the exhibits of the Hibulb Cultural Center are not dry relics from distant times, but vital items of personal significance that keep the memories of their families and ancestors alive as their culture moves forward into the future.
MARYSVILLE — Local residents will gather at the corner of Fourth Street and State Avenue on Aug. 25 at 4 p.m. to object to the recent debt ceiling negotiations, which they believe have failed to protect the middle class.
The rally is being organized by the “American Dream Movement,” which was inspired by protests in Wisconsin and further fueled by what its members see as attacks on the middle class and the poor. More than 800 such rallies were organized nationwide last month to speak out against the results of the debt ceiling debate.
LAKEWOOD — The Lakewood School District Board of Directors will meet Aug. 31 at 5:30 p.m. to review a proposed director district boundary realignment.
Every 10 years following the completion of the U.S. Census, Washington state law requires school district jurisdictions with internal director districts to redraw these boundaries to equalize population among the districts. A realignment of the internal director districts for Lakewood has been completed using the 2010 Census data.
The public hearing to review this proposed realignment will take place in the Board room of Portable 209 at English Crossing Elementary, located at 16728 16th Dr. NE.
MARYSVILLE — A 29-year-old Florida man has been arrested in connection with the robbery of a US Bank branch in Marysville earlier this month.
The Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory made a positive identification of the man from evidence gathered at the scene of the Aug. 9 robbery inside the Albertson’s grocery store at 11410 State Ave., while detectives developed information that the man was temporarily staying with a family at their residence in the Lake Stevens area.
Marysville Police detectives drove to the Lake Stevens-area residence and waited for the man to leave the residence, after which he was taken into custody on Aug. 19 without further incident and booked into the Snohomish County Jail for robbery in the first degree.
MARYSVILLE — Marysville School Board incumbent Darci Becker and challenger Pete Lundberg appear to be headed for the general election this fall.
In the wake of the Aug. 16 primary election, the results as of 4:17 p.m. on Aug. 19 show Becker, director of District 3 within the Marysville School District, with 2,605 votes, or 30.82 percent of the votes counted, and Lundberg with 2,866 votes, or 33.91 percent of the vote. Michael Hansen received 2,079 votes, or 24.6 percent of the votes counted, while Rod Rieger received 833 votes, or 9.86 percent of the votes counted. Write-ins received 68 votes, or 0.8 percent of the votes counted.
ARLINGTON — On Aug. 19 at approximately 10:54 a.m., Arlington Police responded to the US Bank branch located in the 17100 block of Smokey Point Boulevard for the report of a robbery that had just occurred.
