City meeting creates resident wish list
Local News, Marysville City Council, News
August 28, 2025
Marysville residents work through an exercise to brainstorm community needs at the city’s visioning event Tuesday evening. Members of the community turned out to the open house held at the Union County building on London Avenue to share priorities for future growth and development. (Journal-Tribune photo by Michael Williamson)

City meeting creates resident wish list

By Michael Williamson 

Marysville residents want a few things from their city: vibrancy, parking and more reasons to be in the Uptown.

About 80-100 of the expected 150 residents turned up to the community visioning event Tuesday night and the ones who showed up were mostly unified on what’s good about the city and what c...

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