ARLINGTON — The Safeway store in downtown Arlington had a few extra helpers on Saturday, Dec. 1, as the Arlington High School DECA club held its annual winter takeover.
Post Middle School and the Arlington Community Food Bank have added up the collection totals of the school’s holiday collection drive for the Food Bank, and while the school’s take was impressive, the Food Bank could still use some support for the increased need of the holiday season.
The Washington Chapter of the American Planning Association and the Planning Association of Washington recently recognized the award-winning planning and development of the city of Arlington’s “Old Town Wetland Project.”
For the past eight years, ever since their 26-year-old son Cameron passed away from cancer, Magic Shears co-owners Randy and Debbie Howell have donated items to the oncology department of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center of Seattle, but as they planned their collection drive for this year, the Arlington couple decided to focus on the needs of those a bit closer to home.
A former Arlington basketball player had the good luck to make a half-court shot during the Eagles’ first basketball game of the year and scored a $100 gift card from Arlington Physical Therapy in the process.
Community Transit buses will not operate on Christmas and New Year’s Day, and customer service will also be closed both days. The agency will provide regular local bus service and reduced commuter bus service on both Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, with revised customer service hours on those days.
ARLINGTON — According to Shari Ireton, director of communications for the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office, missing person Joanne E. Kay has been found “alive and well.”
Olympic Avenue was packed with spectators on Saturday, Dec. 1, as the city of Arlington hosted its annual Hometown Holidays parade and celebration downtown.
The Arlington City Council voted unanimously on Dec. 3 to adopt the ordinance setting the city’s 2013 budget, marking the conclusion of a process that Arlington Mayor Barbara Tolbert and several Council members alike deemed at once challenging but efficient.
ARLINGTON — For the second year in a row the Arlington Farmer’s Market has hosted Handmade Holiday, a craft and local goods market at the Co-Op, on Saturday, Dec. 1, during the city of Arlington’s Hometown Holidays celebration.
The family of Elliot Carbajal hosted their fourth blood drive in his honor during the city of Arlington’s Hometown Holidays celebration on Saturday, Dec. 1.
ARLINGTON — The Carbajal family is once again working with the Puget Sound Blood Center to provide a community blood drive in Arlington.
The Black Friday shopping holiday is slowly becoming more of a Black Thursday, as more and more local retailers opened their doors to thousands of early-bird shoppers on Thanksgiving Day.
