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Getchell athletics, SLCs the subjects of debate at Marysville schools’ public budget meeting
Getchell athletics, SLCs the subjects of debate at...
By Kirk Boxleitner • February 23, 2011 6:16 pm

MARYSVILLE — Mutual frustration was one thing that everyone who spoke at the Marysville School District’s Feb. 10 meeting on the mid-school year budget reductions could agree on.
In spite of the Tulalip Tribes announcing earlier that day that they would be donating $1.26 million to the school district, the closest to good news that MSD Superintendent Dr. Larry Nyland could deliver to those looking to bring varsity athletics to the Marysville Getchell High School campus was that the Tribes had pledged $10,000 to the C-squads at Getchell.
After an earlier statement by the Citizens to Save Marysville Getchell Sports came under fire from former Marysville School Board member and current Tribal Board member Don Hatch Jr. at the School Board’s Feb. 7 meeting, members of that group clarified that they were not threatening to withhold their own votes from a future levy. Rather, group members Brian and Brenda Duce agreed that athletics cuts at Getchell could disincline other members of the community from passing a levy which they themselves deemed much-needed.

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UPDATE | Marysville invites public to 88th Street master plan meeting
UPDATE | Marysville invites public to 88th Street...
By Staff • February 22, 2011 7:41 pm

The city of Marysville announced Feb. 23 that it has postponed its 88th Street master plan neighborhood meeting from Thursday, Feb. 24, to the following Thursday, March 3, from 6-8 p.m. in the Marysville City Hall Council Chambers at 1049 State Ave. The proposed master plan would establish allowable land uses and design standards on property west of State Avenue.
MARYSVILLE — Property west of State Avenue will be the subject of discussion at an upcoming city of Marysville neighborhood meeting.
The meeting to consider the proposed 88th Street master plan is set for 6-8 p.m. on March 3 in the Marysville City Council Chambers, on the second floor of the Marysville City Hall at 1049 State Ave.

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Marysville schools cancel afternoon programs, on snow routes for buses
Marysville schools cancel afternoon programs, on snow routes...
By Staff • February 22, 2011 5:40 pm

Marysville schools are exercising caution in anticipation of further winter weather.
The Marysville School District announced on Feb. 22 that its morning and afternoon Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program, as well as its kindergarten, preschool and all of its afternoon bus routes, will operate on limited bus transportation snow routes. The school district’s afternoon Skill Center and ECEAP have both been cancelled.

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Michael Thomas
Marysville’s Thomas, Hubbert named Eagle Scouts
By Kirk Boxleitner • February 19, 2011 12:48 am

MARYSVILLE — Although they’re still in their teen years themselves, Michael Thomas and Jake Hubbert were both recognized for their service on behalf of other youth by being awarded the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouts of America.
Hubbert joined the Boy Scouts at the age of 11, while Thomas joined at the age of 12, but now, the two 15-year-olds are already Eagle Scouts, after having completed their service projects.

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Crews work to clear the site of a Feb. 18 fatal accident on I-5. The multi-vehilce accident
UPDATE | Everett motorist dies driving wrong way...
By Kirk Boxleitner • February 18, 2011 8:43 am

MARYSVILLE — An Everett motorist died driving northbound on the southbound lanes of Interstate 5 near Marysville.
The 43-year-old Everett man was killed after his vehicle struck those of a 33-year-old Stanwood woman and a 54-year-old Marysville man just north of Fourth Street on I-5 on the morning of Feb. 8.

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Marysville Special Education PTSA presents first ‘Resource Fair’ March 9
Marysville Special Education PTSA presents first ‘Resource Fair’...
By Kirk Boxleitner • February 17, 2011 2:56 pm

MARYSVILLE — It’s a first for the Marysville School District, and its organizers hope that it can help simplify the lives of area families with children who have special needs.
The Marysville Special Education PTSA’s March 9 Resource Fair aims to bring together not only a host of school district personnel, but also a variety of private service providers and non-profit groups, so that parents of special education students can access all the resources available to them locally, at one place and time.

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“Boom City” fireworks stand owner in Tulalip sentenced for illegal fireworks dealing
“Boom City” fireworks stand owner in Tulalip sentenced...
By Staff • February 11, 2011 5:39 pm

SEATTLE — Louie Ray Pablo, a 52-year-old member of the Tulalip Tribes, was sentenced Feb. 11 in U.S. District Court in Seattle to two years of federal probation for dealing in explosive materials without a license.
Pablo operated a fireworks stand at “Boom City” on the Tulalip Reservation, and in June of 2009, a search of the stand and a nearby storage container revealed hundreds of powerful illegal fireworks that are classified by federal law as explosives.

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Tulalip Tribal Board members hand over an oversized check for $1.26 million to Marysville School Board members on Feb. 10
Tulalip Tribes award $1.26 million to Marysville schools
By Kirk Boxleitner • February 10, 2011 8:03 pm

TULALIP — At the beginning of the Tulalip Tribal Board of Directors’ Feb. 10 meeting, Board member Don Hatch Jr. asked a group of students from Tulalip Elementary to take seats at the table in the center of the Board room.
“I’d rather you all see the kids than see us,” said Hatch, a former member of the Marysville School District Board of Directors. “The children are who we’re doing this for, so they should get some glory out of this.”
Hatch was referring to the Tribes’ decision to award $1.26 million for regional educational improvements to the Marysville School District, which the Tribal Board officially announced at that meeting, to an audience that included representatives of the school district, the city of Marysville, the Marysville Education Association and the Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce.

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