Arlington High School’s graduating class of 1942 originally boasted 68 members, but that number has dwindled down to about a dozen survivors in the decades since.
The third annual Back2School Rally at Presidents Elementary drew an estimated 800 attendees on Sunday, Aug. 19, as local families in need of supplies to start the school year packed the playground to line up for their backpacks that afternoon.
Close to 250 cars, trucks, hot rods and dragsters returned to the Arlington Airport for the annual Sittin Pretti Summer Slam car show Saturday, Aug. 18, as auto enthusiasts from across the state and beyond turned out to help out a local community organization.
The Arlington-Smokey Point Chamber of Commerce’s first official Business After Hours meeting also served to introduce the community to the Chamber’s new offices, as well as the temporary location for a longtime Arlington merchant.
An estimated 1,200 attendees turned out for the Friday, Aug. 10, concert of the 23rd annual Stillaguamish Festival of the River, and Stillaguamish Tribal Chair Shawn Yanity believes the Festival’s three days at the River Meadows County Park this year more than kept pace with last year’s Festival.
ARLINGTON — The Stillaguamish Valley Pioneer Association is still in the mood to kick up its heels after 100 years.
The Association is celebrating its centennial “Pioneer Picnic” on Sunday, Aug. 19, in the Pioneer Hall, located at 20722 67th Ave. NE in Arlington.
ARLINGTON — When Arlington’s Dennis Bray started raising pigeons at the age of 7, he certainly didn’t expect that his hobby would take him across the country and around the world, much less that it would allow him to meet fellow pigeon breeders from other states, and even other nations, who would become his lifelong friends.
ARLINGTON — Construction is underway at the Arlington Municipal Airport on a north-south road to alleviate traffic congestion in Smokey Point and to provide an avenue to potential new business in the area.
ARLINGTON — The third annual Bryant Blueberry Festival on Saturday, July 28, attracted a record turnout to the the Bryant Blueberry Farm & Nursery in Arlington, as attendees of all ages picked their own blueberries and took part in an assortment of activities during the sunny summer day.
The 65th year of the Silvana Fair on Saturday, July 28, was the first in more than 40 years to be held without longtime Fair Board President Roy Strotz, but Board Vice President Lynn Pattison doesn’t see the annual event slowing down anytime soon.
The scenario was potentially life-threatening. Eight sailors from Naval Station Everett were transported from the scene of a toxic chemical spill on base to a portable decontamination tent outside of the Cascade Valley Hospital in Arlington.
When little Declan Hartman was born to mom Jillian and dad Nathan in Cascade Valley Hospital at around 8 p.m. on Tuesday, July 24, he was continuing a family tradition that extends across at least four generations.
The National Night Out Against Crime is returning to the Arlington, Marysville and Tulalip communities on Tuesday, Aug. 7.
