When city of Arlington Storm Water Technician Ken Clark went out to perform a routine outfall check near the Old Town Wetland Park, he wasn’t expecting to discover a piece of local history dating back at least a century.
Four Arlington firefighters were among the more than 50 firefighters who recently spent four days training at two sites in Arlington as part of a continuing education class on confined space rescues.
The Rotary Club of Arlington recently recognized its Outstanding Students for the Month for February.
OLYMPIA — Melody Coleman, a home-schooled high school junior from Arlington, recently spent a week working as a page for the Washington state Senate at the capitol in Olympia. Coleman was one of 18 students who served as Senate pages for the seventh week of the 2013 legislative session.
ARLINGTON — The city of Arlington will be conducting an open house on March 13 from 5-7 p.m. at the Stillaguamish Valley Pioneer Museum, located at 20722 67th Ave. NE in Arlington, to provide an opportunity for residents, businesses and all other interested parties to meet and discuss the 67th Avenue Final Phase project.
In a modern spin on the “wanted” posters of the Old West, local police departments are using a new website — www.CanYouID.me — to help identify unnamed suspects.
ARLINGTON — At 9:50 a.m. on March 7, the Arlington Police Department arrested two homeless male suspects, aged 26 and 21 years old, for the theft of mail from the U.S. Post Office at 524 N. Olympic Ave. in Arlington.
In spite of competing with the Hardwood Classic in Tacoma, the Arlington High School Drama production of “Legally Blonde” nonetheless sold out on its opening night March 1, filling about 400 seats in the Byrnes Performing Arts Center with a fast-paced and fluid musical which featured multiple set changes during each song.
ARLINGTON — The Arlington United Church’s community forum on homelessness on Feb. 26 drew input from a broad range of regional experts on issues closely related to homelessness.
ARLINGTON — The Arlington School District will be conducting kindergarten registration beginning March 25. Kindergarten students must be 5 years old by Sept. 1 in order to register for school. To register their children, parents need to take their children’s immunization records, birth certificates and proof of residency within the Arlington district to their neighborhood school office.
SILVANA — The Silvana Fair Board Auction for last year drew more than 300 attendees and raised an above-average total of earnings, but the annual event’s organizers hope to equal, if not exceed, those totals on Saturday, March 9, 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.
The Arlington High School Air Force Junior ROTC earned itself distinction in a number of categories at the Olympic Division Northwest Drill and Rifle Competition at Marysville-Pilchuck High School on Feb. 23, but even as its cadets took pride in their accomplishments, they agreed that they need more members to keep their program vital.
The city of Arlington proclaimed Feb. 23, 2013, as “Rotary Day” during the City Council’s Feb. 19 meeting, in recognition of its numerous community service projects within the state of Washington, across the nation and around the world, as Rotary Club of Arlington members touted an upcoming event to benefit one of the Rotary’s most notable causes.
