ARLINGTON — Perhaps the Arlington firefighters’ most harrowing moments in Eastern Washington were when blazes cut across a highway, cutting them off in both directions for several hours, while their families back home heard that three responders had died in the Methow River Valley in Twisp.
ARLINGTON — “It’s been a darn good year for Arlington,” Mayor Barbara Tolbert told the Stillaguamish Valley Pioneers during her annual State of the City address Aug. 16.
ARLINGTON — After 103 years, the Stillaguamish Valley Pioneers’ annual reunion and picnic has become a comfortably routine affair. Members bring potluck dishes to Pioneer Hall before receiving updates from the president of their association and the mayor of Arlington.
STANWOOD — When Gil Emory and his former classmates get together at his house, the conversations sound much like you’d expect at a high school reunion, as old friends catch up on each other’s families, activities and ailments.
ARLINGTON — A variety of circumstances brought the families of close to 500 K-12 students from Arlington, Lakewood and Darrington to Presidents Elementary for the sixth annual Back2School Rally Aug. 16.
ARLINGTON — Snohomish County has identified the need to bolster its industrial ranks, and Arlington will serve as a site to get area teens involved.
ARLINGTON — After 26 years, the Stillaguamish Festival of the River and Pow Wow packed the grounds of River Meadows County Park as full as ever Aug. 8-9.
ARLINGTON — With the resurfacing of Smokey Point Boulevard from Island Crossing to 188th Street NE, Arlington Public Works Director Jim Kelly doesn’t expect area residents to have many more construction-related traffic issues this summer. That is, unless he can persuade contractors to take on one more project.
ARLINGTON — Jim Kelly works close enough to the Stillaguamish River that he can see every day what those who have visited the river this summer have seen.
ARLINGTON — Haller Park was the final stop on many city officials’ tour through Arlington’s neighborhoods at the Aug. 4 National Night Out Against Crime, and the citizens they met came ready to share their concerns.
LAKEWOOD — Lakewood school board candidates Amy Williams and Jahna Smith look almost certain to head to the general election this fall, especially with the withdrawal of Karl Fitterer from the race.
SMOKEY POINT — Before he began ministering to the people of North Snohomish County, Matt Simonis grew up on a farm in Oregon, where gun ownership was a simple and accepted way of life.
ARLINGTON — “It’s been a good year for Arlington in the state legislature,” Al Aldrich, the city’s consultant with the firm Strategies 360, told the Arlington City Council July 27.
