Members of American Legion Post 178 in Marysville set up a table outside of the Quil Ceda Village Walmart Nov. 20 to recruit some new members, and got one right as they started at 10 a.m.
The Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office filed formal charges of murder in the second degree against 20-year-old James Fryberg Nov. 20, after his bail was set at $100,000 Nov. 18.
Army Staff Sgt. John James Cleaver, who listed his home as Marysville, was one of two soldiers killed in the Zabul province of Afghanistan on the morning of Nov. 19, while they were delivering supplies to a forward operating base, after a suicide bomber detonated explosives in a truck near where Cleaver was serving as a medic and convoy commander.
At 9:15 p.m. Nov. 22, Marysville Fire District crews responded to the 1900 block of Lakewood Road, where a two story house’s attached garage was fully engulfed in flames.
The city budget for 2010 that the Marysville City Council adopted on Nov. 16 represents a reduction of 2009’s revised spending levels, in spite of the annexation which will add approximately 20,000 residents to Marysville’s existing population of more than 37,000 effective Dec. 30.
An Arlington man has been arrested on suspicion of killing a man who allegedly robbed him Wednesday, Nov. 18.
After a series of public hearings which drew testimony from students, parents, staff and community members, the Marysville School District Board of Directors voted unanimously Nov. 16 to reject “Option 7.1,” a proposed set of changes to school start and stop times and transportation schedules that would have seen the elementary and middle schools starting and ending 30 minutes earlier, while the high schools would have started and ended two hours and 30 minutes later.
Gusts of up to 50 miles per hour could again reach parts of the area starting Wednesday, Nov. 18.
On Nov. 17 at approximately 2 p.m., 20-year-old James Fryberg surrendered to Marysville Police, accompanied by his attorney, and was booked into the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of second-degree murder in the May 14 death of Damoniko Ashby, the 15-month-old son of Fryberg’s girlfriend.
The Marysville Cemetery drew more than its usual number of visitors for the week of Veterans Day, according to cemetery administrator Scott Locke.
Close to 50 community members showed up at the Marysville Secondary Campus Oct. 24 to start improvements to the four-acre property as part of the Marysville Arts and Technology High School’s Senior Legacy Auction for 2010.
After a series of public hearings on the subject, the Marysville City Council voted 6-1, Nov. 9, to annex approximately 20,000 residents of unincorporated Snohomish County into its city limits, which would give Marysville a population of approximately 57,000 and make it the second largest city in Snohomish County.
Lakey Malan graduated from Marysville-Pilchuck High School in 1997, but she never forgot her former choir teacher, Stuart Hunt, who taught choir at M-PHS from 1990-2002.
