ARLINGTON — Hubb’s Pizza was bustling with at least 40 birthday party guests on the already busy afternoon of Dec. 7, but the occasion wasn’t just a chance for siblings Landon and Payton Countryman to have fun and receive gifts, since the roughly 25 presents that they got actually went to those who needed them more.
ARLINGTON — On Saturday, Dec. 8, Arlington Police officers arrested a 26-year-old Marysville man suspected of two recent burglaries at local businesses.
ARLINGTON — The Arlington Community Food Bank benefitted from a larger-than-expected holiday donation from the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians this year, which presented $100,000 each to not only the Arlington Community Food Bank, but also the Stanwood/Camano Food Bank and Northwest Harvest on Dec. 7.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen will conduct a telephone town hall for residents of the state’s 2nd Congressional District on Wednesday, Dec. 11.
Seven years after Cocoon House first opened the doors of its house in Arlington as an emergency shelter for teens, it reopened at the start of December to respond to a slightly different crisis among area young people.
Although the freezing temperatures that have already arrived could be coupled with precipitation over the weekend, the city of Arlington began planning for winter snow and ice when the fall had barely started.
ARLINGTON — On Saturday, Dec. 7, at 5 p.m., Hubb’s Pizza will be hosting a birthday party whose birthday boys are asking their guests to give presents not to them, but to other children, whose needs are greater than their own.
ARLINGTON — Arlington Youth Cheer started the month of December with a burst of seasonally spirited giving, by buying slightly more than $2,000 worth of food, toys, clothing and blankets for the Arlington Community Food Bank.
SMOKEY POINT — Jake’s House Prayer & Worship Center, located in Suite 105 at 18824 Smokey Point Blvd., is looking to restart its on-again, off-again food bank program on Friday, Dec. 13, from 12:30-2:30 p.m., and continue it every Friday at the same time, through the winter holidays and beyond.
One month later, the results of Snohomish County’s Nov. 5 election are officially in.
ARLINGTON — For more than two decades, the Arlington Fire Department has been delighting local children, and helping the Arlington Community Food Bank stock its shelves for the holidays, through its annual “Santa Run” food drive, and from Dec. 6-15, Arlington firefighters and community volunteers will again be escorting Santa Claus on a festively decorated fire truck through several of the town’s neighborhoods during the evenings.
ARLINGTON — For eight years after their 26-year-old son Cameron passed away from cancer, Magic Shears co-owners Randy and Debbie Howell donated items to the oncology department of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center of Seattle, but as they planned their collection drive last year, the Arlington couple decided to focus on the needs of those a bit closer to home.
ARLINGTON — The Arlington cold weather shelter began its December rotation through the community’s churches at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church on the evening of Dec. 2, but it didn’t receive its first guests for the month until the following night, at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church on Dec. 3.
