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Strawberry Festival crowns Royalty BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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From left, Marysville Strawberry Festival Senior Royalty Prince Derek Groves, Princess Franqui Rojas, Queen Madison Doty and Prince Israel Lopez are all smiles after their crowning on March 23.
School District selects superintendent finalists
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BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleiter@marysvilleglobe.com
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Vol. 121, No. 08
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Dr. Tony Byrd of Edmonds, one of the Marysville School District’s three finalists for the superintendent position, introduces himself to the community on March 25.
MARYSVILLE — Dr. Tony Byrd of Edmonds became the first of the Marysville School District’s three superintendent finalist candidates to greet the public during their visits and interviews to the district from Monday, March 25, through Wednesday, March 27. Byrd made his visits and interviews on March 25, while Dr. Carl Bruner of Mount Vernon did so on Tuesday, March 26,
and Dr. Becky Berg of Deer Park, Wash., is scheduled to meet with Marysville School District staff, parents, students and community members on March 27 in the MSD Service Center Board room at 11 a.m., 4:15 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. According to MSD Board President Chris Nation, the original group of six semifinalists was narrowed down to five when one of the candidates felt compelled to drop out due to health reasons.
“The Board’s deliberation on Saturday night, after we’d heard from all five semifinalists, was a very difficult process,” Nation said. “All of the candidates possess very unique and great skills and attributes, but in the end, we looked for the commonalities.” In particular, Nation explained that the Board considered which candidates most corresponded to the characteristics which the Board had already deemed most SEE FINALISTS, PAGE 2
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MARYSVILLE — The Marysville Strawberry Festival saw a few firsts during its crowning ceremony for this year’s court on March 23. While this year’s Strawberry Festival can’t claim to have the first fourmember Senior Royalty Court, it is the first with two Senior Princes, as well as the first to have a tie between two of the candidates. According to Strawberry Festival officials, the tie was due to an honest tabulation error which resulted in Queen Madison Doty and Princes Derek Groves and Israel Lopez being joined by Princess Franqui Rojas after the official crowning