While it’s too early to say which teams will experience bracket bliss, this game at Cedar Field promises to be gangbusters — the winner will play for the 9/10 all-star championship. Games will be going on every day from June 28 to July 11, but the semifinal should exhibit some of the district’s best Little League baseball. Marysville Little League has links to the eight all-star brackets taking place in Snohomish County. You can find them on the website at www.eteamz.com/marysvillelittleleague. Click on the 2008 All-Stars link.
The Marysville American All-Stars got their first win as a team in the opening round of the 2008 tournament, stomping their counterparts from Stanwood-Camano 18-0.
ARLINGTON — With the Arlington Idol contest coming up during the Arlington Street Fair on July 11, some talented singers have come out and auditioned for an opportunity to sing in front of their community and win a prize as well.
ARLINGTON — Steve Peiffle had a stressful experience last week. The city of Arlington’s attorney made his first ever case to the Washington State Supreme Court on behalf of the proposed Island Crossing annexation.
ARLINGTON — Crews worked all weekend and until midnight Sunday to prepare for “tying in” the new portion of State Route 9, north of Arlington, Monday morning. It was a long detour out to I-5 to points north of Arlington over the weekend.
Crews are getting ready to open a new segment of State Route 9 near Arlington next week.
After an executive session on “personnel issues” following the Monday night Arlington City Council meeting, Arlington Police Chief John Gray announced his resignation Tuesday morning, June 24.
MARYSVILLE — The Olympia Pizza softball team added a pair of wins to their record June 18, with spring league playoffs looming in the coming weeks.
Normally, most of us think of June as summer. After all, June is when our kids go on summer vacation. June also contains the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. In fact, after June 21, the days actually start getting shorter (now there’s a depressing thought). So the feeling that June should be summer is fairly normal. Except that in the northwest, summer really doesn’t start until July (some would say July 5th).
This is what I get for “taking over” management of the checkbook from my wife.
n A new traffic light and road improvements aren’t the only changes about to take place at the intersection of 172nd Street NE and 67th Avenue NE. The 8.8 acres at the northeast corner of the intersection, bordering Highland View Estates, are about to become part of the city of Arlington. If that happens, the area will be slated for “neighborhood commercial” development, which calls for retail business such as clothing and accessory stores, barber shops, grocery stores and gas stations and professional services. It does not allow construction of single-family homes, but does allow apartments on a second or third story above a business. The Arlington City Council last week approved a 60 percent petition on the area owned by Hong Ly. Ly, the only property owner in the proposed annexation submitted a 10 percent notice of intention to annex three months ago. The annexation next goes for a review to Snohomish County. Because of the small size of the proposed annexation and because all the property is owned by one person, the process is expected to go quickly and, if no snags develop, could be completed in a couple of months.
I want to thank the Marysville Police Department, Marysville Fire District and the Arlington Fire Department who all provided some very important information this week regarding fireworks safety and the enforcement of the new fireworks law in Marysville. It’s valuable information to have to help the people in our communities ensure they have a fun, and safe, Fourth of July holiday.
