For 11-year-olds Madison Elsner and Ally Peterson, seeing wild kangaroos, hearing heavy accents and abiding by strict schedules weren’t the biggest adjustments they made while traveling in Australia.
ARLINGTON — The Arlington School Board had three options during its last meeting — increase taxes, lower taxes or keep them about the same.
In the end, it decided on the latter.
SNOHOMISH COUNTY — Voters in north Snohomish County have overwhelmingly approved an emergency medical service levy.
Preliminary results show that nearly 73 percent of voters in the Warm Beach, Freeborn, Bryant and northern Arlington areas are in favor of funding North County Regional Fire Authority/EMS’s expiring levy.
The levy, which will pay for firefighter/paramedic wages, training, supplies, apparatuses and support vehicles, will charge taxpayers 50 cents per $1,000 of assessed value to maintain the authority’s current level of service.
SNOHOMISH COUNTY – It appears that voters will see a rematch in Congressional District 2 this November.
Initial results on Tuesday, Aug. 17, show that incumbent U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen and challenger John Koster – both from Arlington – hold the top two spots in the Washington state primary election.
SMOKEY POINT — A construction project to repair and upgrade a stretch of Smokey Point Boulevard is well underway.
As part of an asphalt overlay project that began in July, crews have recently been busy removing and replacing sidewalk ramps that do not meet current ADA accessibility guidelines, said city of Arlington spokeswoman Kristin Banfield.
While most of the construction should have a minimal impact on drivers, city officials said that crews were scheduled to be grinding and paving Smokey Point Boulevard from 175th Street NE to 185th Street NE during the nights of Tuesday, Aug. 17 and Wednesday, Aug. 18.
The Stillaguamish Valley Pioneers are still two years from their centennial celebration, but that doesn’t mean members can’t take advantage of an early gift.
Thanks to the volunteer efforts and fundraising of community members Dick and Shirley Prouty and Steve and Michele Heiderer, a $90,000 map and welcome center has been completed just outside of the Stillaguamish Valley Pioneer Museum.
The 21st Annual Stillaguamish Festival of the River & Pow Wow is coming up.
The event, which takes place starting at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 14, and Sunday, Aug. 15, will again be held at River Meadows County Park.
On Aug. 17, voters will determine whether to continue funding North County’s expiring levy beyond 2010.
The EMS levy pays for firefighter/paramedic wages, training, supplies, apparatuses and support vehicles — in other words, all the necessary items to cover one of the largest service areas for a fire district in Snohomish County, said North County Fire Chief Dale Fulfs.
If approved, the EMS levy would charge taxpayers 50 cents per $1,000 of assessed value to maintain the authority’s current level of service. That would amount to approximately $12.50 per month for the owner of a $300,000 home.
Two-year-old Matthew Brown’s concern went away as soon as he sat in the driver’s seat of a fire engine.
After he glanced around the interior of the cherry-red Arlington Fire Department truck, he was all smiles.
“I think he’s going to grow up and be a firefighter,” said Smokey Point resident Sabrina Brown, Matthew’s mom. “He definitely knows who the real heroes are.”
Three nearby school districts have come to the aid of Arlington School District transportation personnel during their time of need.
With more than 40 school buses badly damaged during a vandalism spree sometime between Friday, July 30 and Monday, Aug. 1, Arlington transportation staff were scrambling to make repairs to windshields, windshield wipers, broken windows and torn seats before the district’s inspection from the Washington State Patrol later this month.
ARLINGTON — Two Arlington teens have been arrested in connection with a vandalism spree that left more than 40 school buses with broken windshields and windows.
The two 17-year-old males were booked into Denny Youth Center in Everett on the charge of second-degree burglary.
Detectives from the Arlington Police Department seized a number items as evidence linking the teenagers to the crimes. The juveniles also confessed to the vandalism, which took place at the Arlington School District bus yard sometime between Friday, July 30 and Monday, Aug. 2.
ARLINGTON — Authorities are investigating yet another vandalism case in Arlington.
Sometime between 11 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 3, and 5 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 4, seven vehicles and one house in the Gleneagle neighborhood sustained damage from apparent BB projectiles, said Kristin Banfield, city of Arlington spokeswoman.
Windows of five vehicles and one house in the 7200 and 7400 blocks of W. Country Club Drive were damaged, as were two vehicles in the 7700 block of Eaglefield Dr.
Sarah Herrmann’s grandmother has always told stories about growing up in Germany.
Now, after a four-week exchange in the European country, Herrmann has some stories of her own.
