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Marysville restaurant destroyed by fire reopens due to popular demand

A historic North Sound restaurant that burned to the ground in a devastating mechanical fire last February has found a new home.

“The Village” in Marysville has been around 80 years and was more than just a place to eat—it was a tight-knit family.

The new location is right across the street from the one that burned down, which has not been demolished yet.

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Nothing was salvageable except for the spirits of the people who cherished the place.

“Some more coffee here and your fries should be coming up.”

If The Village is Marysville’s most beloved restaurant then Laverne Moen is Marysville’s most beloved server.

She’s been bringing platefuls of The Village’s most popular dishes—pies in particular—for 32 years.

So when she watched her second home burn back in February: “It was very, very emotional for me and it took me awhile to kind of bounce back out of it.”

“It burnt for nine hours; it was a crazy, awful fire and super devastating.

A lot of our employees came down and watched it burn-- I mean there’s nothing you can do,” Christina Adamson told us.

Christina and her sister co-own the restaurant.

They didn’t even know how to start the rebuilding process—but they knew they would rebuild.

“It’s so much more than just a job; we’re a really close-knit team of people, we’ve all worked together for a long time,” Christina told us.

When they learned the log cabin-style space across the street had been remodeled— it’s bigger, more beautiful, and brand new—the Adamsons convinced the owners to let them lease it, and The Village rose from the ashes.

It wasn’t supposed to open until this Saturday, but due to popular demand they opened last Wednesday instead.

“We had one day we counted like 30 people that came in to sit in the restaurant and order pie, especially order pie,” Christina said, crediting the community’s persistence for the early opening.

So The Village is back in business, which means Laverne can get down to business, and all is right in Marysville.

“Today all my regulars were coming in today so it made me feel like at home.”

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