In its ongoing fight to rid the community of graffiti and promote speedy cleanup that deters the recurring vandalism from becoming a lingering eyesore, city officials are reaching over the fence to help neighbors.
Don’t miss the catch of the day when the Marysville Kiwanis Club, Everett Steelhead and Salmon Club, and Marysville Parks and Recreation invite you and your children to the 17th Annual free Fishing Derby held at Jennings Memorial Park Kiwanis Pond on Saturday, May 7.
Thousands of people filled Jennings Memorial Park’s Rotary Ranch, April 23, as kids of all ages turned out to enjoy a rare day of sunshine and the city’s annual Easter egg hunt.
“Although it’s still early, it looks like we could have 3,000 people here today,” said Jim Ballew, Parks and Recreation Director. “This is a wonderful turnout by members of this community.”
What does the future hold for Marysville parks? That’s largely up to you.
The Marysville Parks and Recreation Department is embarking on a community-based update of its Comprehensive Plan that will guide planning and help identify future parks and recreation facilities needs.
With the approaching good weather of spring and summer drawing more people out to explore Marysville’s parks, new park laws will be in effect to ensure a more peaceful and leisurely visit.
MARYSVILLE — The Marysville Fire District has laid off three of its firefighters and four of its other staff members, effective immediately.
According to Marysville Fire Chief Greg Corn, the Fire District’s six-member Board of Directors voted unanimously on April 20 to lay off not only the three firefighters, but also one full-time and three part-time administrative positions. He added that the District’s general operating expenses will be reduced by $190,000, and its reserve fund transfers will be reduced by $400,000. Reserve fund transfers are necessary to fund capital purchases.
This leaves the District with 86 remaining firefighters, out of a total of 93 full-time and 25 part-time staff members. One of the administrative layoffs was Kristen Thorstenson, public education specialist and information officer for the District. Although the District had already enacted a number of budget reductions prior to these latest cuts, Corn noted that this is the first time the District has laid off personnel to ensure its own sustainability into the future.
What began as a student musical performance became a series of pleas on behalf of music in the Marysville School District.
The 10th Street Middle School Jazz Band performed a number of songs for attendees of the MSD Board of Directors’ April 18 meeting, before band director Nathan Sackman urged the Board to support music programs within the district, in terms that would be echoed by parents, alumni and other community members who had no idea that Sackman planned to express sentiments that mirrored their own.
Chill winds and drizzling rain couldn’t keep kids away from Third Street or the Marysville YMCA’s healthy living events.
The Marysville Downtown Merchants Association and the Allen Creek Community Church jointly sponsored Third Street’s annual Fit-Tastic Easter Egg Hunt on April 16, the same day that the Marysville Y drew hundreds of attendees for its Healthy Kids Day.
The Guatemalan municipality of Barillas is starting to feel like home for a few area Rotarians.
Marysville Rotarians Harv and Larry Jubie and Ron Young were joined by six other members of Rotary from Everett, Mukilteo and the University District, as they returned this year to Guatemala, March 4-13, to build two more school buildings in the country’s remote mountain villages.
Students at Cougar Creek Elementary will be getting hands-on lessons on growing potatoes and other plants thanks to donations from the Washington State Potato Commission.
On April 12, Cougar Creek Elementary teacher Elizabeth Zylstra received an oversized check for $1,000 from Karen Bonaudi of the Washington State Potato Commission, which will go toward supplies for the free greenhouse that the commission will also be awarding to the school.
MARYSVILLE — More than 50 protestors from around Snohomish County converged on the Marysville branch of Bank of America to call out what they saw as taxation inequities.
On this year’s tax deadline, April 18, residents of Marysville, Arlington, Everett and beyond carried signs and shouted slogans on State Avenue, at the intersections of Fourth and Fifth avenues, accusing Bank of America and other corporations of not paying their fair share of taxes.
MARYSVILLE — Merriah Sample still doesn’t feel like she’s being heard by the Marysville School District.
“It’s the same rote answer I heard for four years,” said Sample, who was joined by two other parents of teens at the MSD Board of Directors’ April 18 meeting to speak on bullying in Marysville schools. “We were forced to leave our home here in Marysville because our daughter was bullied so much, and she tried to commit suicide over it.”
Merriah Sample was unsatisfied with the response she received from Board President Cindy Erickson, after Aryana Sample, 15, fought back tears as she recounted how her bullying began at Marysville Middle School in 2008, and continued until she left the school district.
Just after 3:10 a.m. on April 18, Marysville Fire District crews were dispatched to a house on fire located in the area of 6500 20th Drive NE. Emergency response crews arrived to find the two-story single family residence with flames from the front of the house extending into the attic area.
