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City Council works toward financing new Fire Station...
By Douglas Buell • March 20, 2020 1:30 am

ARLINGTON – The city signed an agreement with Sterling Bank to negotiate terms for a long-term bond to finance construction…

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City Council looks to virtual meeting options
City Council looks to virtual meeting options
By Douglas Buell • March 20, 2020 1:30 am

ARLINGTON – The City Council is changing its public meeting process to satisfy new social distancing rules and help slow…

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DOUGLAS BUell/Staff Photos                                Lead cook Keina Gowins with Presidents Elementary hands out free grab-and-go breakfasts and lunches to students and parents outside the school Wednesday. Presidents and AHS serve as central kitchen sites for preparing meals, which starting next week will expand to 12 delivery sites from Silvana to Oso. Right, Arlington Food Bank executive director Carla Gastineau and Mike Simpson, food bank board president and owner of Arlington Grocery Outlet, partnered with the district with their Meals Til Monday program, and gave a woman a box of donated food while at Presidents.
Arlington students won’t go hungry during the COVID-19...
By Douglas Buell • March 20, 2020 1:30 am

ARLINGTON – Arlington schools are closed through April 24 to help fight the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, but that…

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A tent is set up outside Cascade Valley Hospital in Arlington to screen people for symptoms of possible coronavirus before entering the hospital.
Skagit Valley Health, Cascade Valley Hospital testing 1st...
By Douglas Buell • March 13, 2020 1:30 am

ARLINGTON – Skagit Regional Health, which includes Cascade Valley Hospital, is caring for patients who tested positive for the COVID-19…

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Arlington closed until April 24 amid COVID-19 outbreak: what’s next?
Arlington closed until April 24 amid COVID-19 outbreak:...
By Douglas Buell • March 20, 2020 1:30 am

ARLINGTON – When Arlington public school leaders met for a special meeting March 12 to decide if and for how…

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A tent is set up outside Cascade Valley Hospital in Arlington to screen people for symptoms of possible coronavirus before entering the hospital.
Schools, elder care facilities, churches, city adapt to...
By Douglas Buell • March 12, 2020 1:30 am

ARLINGTON – The coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak may not be wreaking havoc on society the way a natural disaster like an…

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City’s realignment project to put the brakes on bicycle accidents at skewed rail crossing
City’s realignment project to put the brakes on...
By Douglas Buell • March 11, 2020 1:30 am

ARLINGTON – As some cyclists know well from painful experience, crossing railroad tracks embedded in a paved trail or on…

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172nd Street work coming this year; it’s not the big widening project
172nd Street work coming this year; it’s not...
By Douglas Buell • March 6, 2020 1:30 am

ARLINGTON – The city of Arlington recently hired an engineering firm to design a new signalized intersection at 40th Avenue…

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Bond refunding to save city of Arlington over...
By Douglas Buell • March 6, 2020 1:30 am

ARLINGTON – The city of Arlington plans to refinance two bonds and a promissory note for the Graafstra property that…

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What city, schools, first responders are doing to stop the coronavirus from spreading
What city, schools, first responders are doing to...
By Douglas Buell • March 5, 2020 1:30 am

ARLINGTON – As coronavirus concern grows in the Arlington area, school districts, local governments and first responders are taking extra…

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2020 Census a month away: What Arlington residents should know
2020 Census a month away: What Arlington residents...
By Douglas Buell • February 28, 2020 1:30 am

ARLINGTON – With the 2020 U.S. Census only weeks away, residents are being urged to make themselves count by completing…

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District seeks suitors to buy or lease old Arlington High School
District seeks suitors to buy or lease old...
By Douglas Buell • February 28, 2020 1:30 am

ARLINGTON – Figuratively speaking, the “For Sale or Lease” sign is in the front lawn for the historic old Arlington…

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Cast ready for AHS Drama’s fun musical fairy tale ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ starting March 6
Cast ready for AHS Drama’s fun musical fairy...
By Douglas Buell • February 28, 2020 1:30 am

ARLINGTON – Hear ye, lords and ladies, the Arlington High School Drama department invites you to enjoy their performance of…

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