OLYMPIA — Arlington Fire Chief Bruce Stedman and Arlington City Council member Jesica Stickles visited the state capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 11, to help make state legislators more aware of safety and transportation issues affecting the local area.
SILVANA — Jeanne Watanabe, owner of the Silver Hanger consignment store in Arlington, has helped to support the spring Prom Dress Exchange, and while she’s collecting for that event again this year, she’ll be debuting a benefit event of her own later this month.
SILVANA — The Silvana Fair Board Auction has drawn more than 300 attendees in previous years, but the annual event’s organizers hope to equal, if not exceed, those totals on Saturday, March 8, when the auction is set to return to the Viking Hall at 1331 Pioneer Hwy. in downtown Silvana, west of I-5 off Exit 208.
ARLINGTON — Detectives with the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office served a search warrant at the 8100 block of Wade Road in Arlington on Thursday, Feb. 13, and discovered human remains buried under a concrete slab on the property. The verification that the remains located were human was corroborated by an anthropologist with the King County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The seventh annual Arlington-Stillaguamish Eagle Festival marked the second year of a second day of activities, as well as the second year of a host of activities that also debuted last year, all of which seemed to be settling in as new traditions, according to event organizers.
ARLINGTON — The Arlington City Council voted by a 6-1 margin on Monday, Feb. 3, to approve an ordinance amending the Arlington Municipal Code to allow the production and processing of recreational marijuana in the city’s light industrial and general industrial zones, and to allow the retailing of recreational marijuana in the city’s general commercial and highway commercial zones.
ARLINGTON — Arlington Fire Department crews were dispatched to a reported fire in an apartment unit in the 3200 block of Smokey Point Drive at 2:48 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 4.
ARLINGTON — The human remains that were discovered at Twin Rivers Park on the afternoon of Saturday, Feb. 1, have since been identified. On Friday, Feb. 7, the Snohomish County Medical Examiner officially identified the deceased as 38-year-old Jeremy M. Imrie of Arlington, who was reported missing after he was last seen near the Lincoln Bridge on May 9, 2013.
ARLINGTON — After losing one of its host churches, the Arlington cold weather shelter was faced with no longer having a home on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays, even as weather forecasts called for freezing cold temperatures. Fortunately, the Immaculate Conception Church of Arlington has been able to step up to fill the gap.
ARLINGTON — The Olympic Theatre has been a landmark in downtown Arlington since 1939, and Norma Pappas has been at its helm since 1977, when she bought it with her dad, but the Tuesday, Feb. 4, showing of The Hobbit could be its final screening.
The Arlington City Council discussed on Monday, Jan. 27, how they would make the case to the city’s citizens for a proposed adjustment to the property tax rate.
ARLINGTON — Superintendent Dr. Kris McDuffy presented a portrait of the Arlington School District as adjusting capably to a community that’s changed significantly over the course of the past decade, during her State of the District address on Thursday, Jan. 30.
ARLINGTON — The Arlington School District Board of Directors was honored during their Monday, Jan. 27, meeting as part of Gov. Jay Inslee’s proclamation of January as “School Board Recognition Month.”
