ARLINGTON — The Snohomish County Medical Examiner has identified the male victim involved in an accident on the Stillaguamish River on Sunday, May 5, as 54 year-old Jay R. Griffin from Everett. The Medical Examiner’s Office has listed the cause of death as drowning.
ARLINGTON — The Transportation Benefit District Board workshop meeting on May 2 kicked off with some expressed concerns about the news coverage to date of the upcoming TBD ballot resolution, with Arlington City Council member Steve Baker worrying that the phrases “street improvements” and “street maintenance” could send the wrong message.
ARLINGTON — The former Arlington High School building will take its final bow with the Highland Christian School’s presentation of “Visiting Wonderland,” two single-act plays adapted by Lindsay Price and based on the characters of Lewis Carroll’s famous novels, on May 4, 10 and 11 starting at 7 p.m.
ARLINGTON — The Trafton Community Center is serving as the site for a community rummage sale fundraiser on Saturday, May 4, starting at 9 a.m.
With spring already well underway, all of the beds in the Arlington Community Garden have been rented out, and most of them have already been planted, as local gardeners not only continue to grow crops that they’ll share with the Arlington Community Food Bank, but also with the “Million Tomato Compost Campaign.”
The joint meeting of the Arlington City Council, the Arlington School District and the Cascade Valley Hospital and Clinics Board of Commissioners on April 29 saw representatives from each agency explaining what lies ahead for them.
SMOKEY POINT — On the morning of Monday, April 22, the staff of the Stillaguamish Senior Center came in to find their offices ransacked and some of their most popular recreation programs gutted.
Eagle Creek Elementary’s EcoFest put its students in an environmental state of mind on Friday, April 19, just in time for the weekend prior to Earth Day, with a series of rotating activities presented and supervised by a host of community groups.
With construction well underway on 67th Avenue NE during the week starting April 15, Arlington Assistant City Administrator Kristin Banfield warned motorists to keep road safety and time management in mind when driving the stretch of 67th Avenue NE between the Stillaguamish Valley Pioneer Hall and Museum to the south, and the 76 gas station and convenience store to the north.
A group of nearly a dozen National Honor Society students from Arlington High School took the time to touch up a historic landmark in downtown Arlington on Friday, April 19.
Unintentional poisonings are at a record high in Snohomish County. The most recent information shows that, in 2011, the number of such poisonings affected 150 county residents, more than triple the 46 reported in 2000. You can help reduce the chance of unintentional poisonings by disposing of your unwanted medicines on National Drug Take-back Day on Saturday, April 27, at multiple locations in Snohomish County.
ARLINGTON — The Getchell Firefighters Association is holding its annual pancake breakfast from 7 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 20.
The pouring rain did little to dampen the spirits of volunteers at Jensen Park on Saturday, April 13, as they planted trees provided by Banksavers, celebrated the city of Arlington’s 11th year of being designated as a “Tree City USA” by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, and eventually came in from the cold to check out the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians’ cultural exhibits in the Kent Prairie Elementary gymnasium.
