A school administrator from the South Whidbey School District has accepted a new position in Arlington. Mike Johnson, the district’s director of teaching and learning and former South Whidbey High School principal, will take over as the Arlington School District’s executive director of personnel effective June 30.
The Snohomish County-based business is celebrating 30 years — including the past 13 in Arlington — in 2010.
After distinguishing bird calls and identifying plant life, Bill Blake threw nature enthusiasts a curve ball.
The staff at the Helping Hands Thrift Store has experienced problems before, but nothing like this.
The calls always happen at night for Earl Anderson.
The city of Arlington’s lead water distribution specialist is used to being woken up at 2 a.m. to respond to a water main breaking, a sewer plugging up or other untimely emergencies.
After months of delaying the decision, the Lakewood School Board approved the reconfiguring of the district’s elementary schools. The change will go into effect before the 2011-12 school year, giving district officials a year and a half to figure out how they will transfer staff throughout its three kindergarten through fifth-grade schools.
When Burch Walker saw the damage caused by the January earthquake in Haiti, he wanted to help out. So the Eagle Creek Elementary fourth-grader decided to hold a fundraiser that would combine his willingness to help with his love of swimming.
The Arlington High School junior was recently required to smooth over a hypothetical situation in which Kavanagh was a restaurant manager, and her chef had purposely put beard hairs on a customer’s steak.
Every dollar counts. That’s what students found out during a recent presentation by Dr. Jerry Rusher and nurse practitioner Jeanne Wessel at Post Middle School. The two Arlington residents were part of a team of volunteers who recently spent time in Haiti helping earthquake victims at a hospital in Dessalines — a city about 90 miles north of Port-au-Prince.
Jeff White and Gene Hammond are spreading the word and their slogan — Remember Last Tuesday — throughout the Arlington community. The idea? Offer a free, homemade dinner for people once per month across from the city’s food bank near Haller Park.
The Trafton community has been called to action.
How it will respond to the Arlington School District’s announcement that Trafton School could close by this summer was the focus of a special parent teacher club meeting on Monday, March 17.
“Without a shadow of inclination I believe that we will keep this school open and I want that same commitment from you guys,” club President Kelly Roundy told a group of about 25 parents and community members. “We’ve weathered this storm before and come out on top.”
Residents who drive near the Burlington Northern Sante Fe railroad between Arlington and Marysville will notice some construction until March 19.
Gus Melonas, director of public affairs for the railway company, said that a 35-person work crew will be replacing wood rail ties on a seven-mile stretch of track between the two cities starting Monday, March 15.
Jackie Morgan knew the consequences of writing a tell-all book about her abusive childhood. But the Arlington resident had a story to tell, so after taking a few English classes at Everett Community College, she began to write.
