Marysville is growing fast. Here's what residents think of that

January 06, 2017 / 10:29 am

In Cora Milholland's lifetime, Marysville has grown from under 2,000 residents to over 60,000.

Since the time he arrived in the 1990s, Loren Cook says the population has tripled.

Six new developments have sprung up on all sides of Nichole Cleland since 2004, when she moved to a new development in Marysville.

And Johnnie Finley misses the strawberry fields.

These Marysville residents, and a few others, talk about how it feels to live in the fastest growing big city in Western Washington.

With the voices of: Cora Milholland, Johnnie Finley, Joshua Sanabria, Robert Max, Nicole Cleland and Nancy Balke.

Posey Gruener can be reached at pgruener@kuow.org.

Posey Gruener
Producer, The Record

Posey coordinates on-air news coverage for KUOW's midday newsmagazine. Before joining KUOW, Posey worked at WNYC as a producer for The Takeaway, a live daily news program, and Studio 360, a weekly show about creativity, pop culture and the arts. She has also worked for The Moth, the live storytelling organization, and StoryCorps, the oral history radio project. Her freelance work has aired on Studio 360 and All Things Considered. Posey graduated Summa Cum Laude from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. She holds a certificate in writing from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, and a certificate in audio production from the Center for Documentary Studies in Durham, North Carolina.
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