ARLINGTON — For 11 years, Arlington High School has teamed up with the Moerike Gymnasium in Stuttgart, Germany, to broaden the horizons of students in both countries.
From Oct. 6 through Nov. 3, AHS and several of its students’ families played hosts to 19 students from Stuttgart, as they attended 10 days of school traveled to Deception Pass, spent a day in downtown Seattle, attended all of AHS’s Homecoming activities, from the parade and game to the dance, and stayed three days and two nights in Winthrop before exploring the Olympic Peninsula during four days and three nights in Port Townsend. The German students’ travels throughout the region even took them to the Hibulb Cultural Center on the Tulalip Indian Reservation.
Pirates and zombies made their debut at Arlington’s “Hometown Halloween” this year, but they were joined by plenty of familiar favorites.
When the clock struck 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 29, downtown Arlington proceeded to “Rock Around the Clock” to commemorate the completion of a project that’s been on the Downtown Arlington Business Association’s to-do list for years.
ARLINGTON — Arlington High School student Haley Bacon will be off her feet for at least the next week, and her mother wants to find the hit-and-run driver who’s responsible
U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee has written about the potential for a clean energy economy in America, and on Oct. 21, the Democratic candidate for Washington state governor got a firsthand look at how one local company is striving to make solar energy efficient and accessible.
How much history does the Loyal Heights Community Club have? Julia Lien celebrated her 100th birthday on March 11 of this year, and even she doesn’t have the most seniority within the group’s membership.
SMOKEY POINT — The Marysville Rotary’s “Pumpkins for Literacy” pumpkin patch, at the Plant Farm at Smokey Point, will run through Sunday, Oct, 30, one day before Halloween, to give local families a chance to pick up their choice of jack-o’-lanterns.
It was a project 30 years in the making, and those who pushed it forward are already planning the next stages of its development.
The exchanges between the candidates for Arlington’s elected offices remained cordial throughout the Arlington-Smokey Point Chamber of Commerce’s candidates forum on Oct. 11.
Arlington residents Lynn and Bentley Marks have just gone from being sports equipment inventors to being sporting goods store owners.
ARLINGTON — Sami Smith, a 17-year old senior at Arlington High School, recently made it into the top 50 semi-finalists of the nationwide “Sketch Your Prom Dress” contest conducted by Seventeen Magazine and David’s Bridal, but she’ll need some support from Facebook fans to have a shot at pulling through.
Sami is hoping that her purple dress sketch will earn her the grand prize of a $25,000 college scholarship, a three-day trip to New York City to put the final touches on a sample of her dress, which would be manufactured and sold in David’s Bridal stores for the prom of spring 2012, and a $5,000 donation to her high school. The two runners-up will receive a trip to NYC and a $400 certificate to David’s Bridal.
The clock is ticking for Helping Hands of Arlington. The thrift store at 127 W. Cox Ave. has until the end of October to find a new home, but without some outside intervention even the most inexpensive of options will be well out of their reach.
With two propositions slated for next February’s ballot, the Lakewood School District took the time to explain to the community what’s at stake. Lakewood Middle School hosted a “School Finances and Information Fair” on Oct. 4, for the community to learn more about these two proposed ballot measures.