Grove Elementary opened one year early and under budget. Three hundred people were on hand for the Sept. 25 dedication of Marysville’s newest elementary school which serves 500 students.
As we continue to work to improve the print editions of The Marysville Globe and The Arlington Times, we are also working to improve our Web sites.
With Washington state facing a multi-billion dollar budget deficit and rising unemployment, lawmakers are scrambling to figure out how to retain good jobs and keep tax revenues flowing into government coffers.
Bill Briggs lives by the axiom that one person’s trash is another’s treasure.
Every year when the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday seasons roll around, businesses and residents in our communities respond by giving their time and money to ensure that everyone, no matter their economic status, is able to enjoy the holidays.
We all remember our parents reading us the story, “The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs” when were children.
In a recent issue of the Globe, Marysville police Sgt. Doug Lee stated police position regarding fines for speeding past schools. Since slow-thinking drivers may still be adjusting to the new school year it was a timely warning. Yet something seemed out of balance. Lee warned drivers about fines they might incur if they don’t slow down but left them in confusion as to the exact conditions that call those fines into play.
It’s been a picture perfect autumn, a textbook October. With a moist summer, the trees were still thick with leaves when the first frosts hit, making for a very colorful fall. Bright yellow big leaf maple trees, and dark red Japanese maples. The sumac too were brilliant orange.
In 1998, Washington voters passed Initiative 688 by a large margin. It uncoupled our state’s minimum wage from the federal act and approved automatic annual increases. Those increases have outstripped the national standard, giving Washington the highest minimum wage in the country.
Thirty people, mainly representatives from several community churches and support groups, met at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Arlington Oct. 30 to assess the extent of homeless and other severely ‘at need’ individuals and families in the north county community.
All Saints Day is the day after Halloween, the day when children recover from overdoses of sweets. All Saints Day was celebrated as a memorial to early martyrs until the 9th Century. That’s when Pope Leo figured out that his church wasn’t going to ferret out all the true saints so he gave official recognition to “unknown saints” too. It was a nice touch though they aren’t logged in the official list of saints.
Voters in the 10th District will be selecting between incumbent Republican Norma Smith and challenger Democrat Tim Knue for State Representative Position 2 in the upcoming Nov. 4 general election.
One of the many important lessons my parents taught me was that, if something looks to good to be true, it probably is. That’s the case with Initiative 1029.
