Green thumbs at Arlington’s Community Garden have a hard enough time keeping pests and invasive plants away from their vegetables.
Produce isn’t the only item the Arlington Food Bank is low on.
Sharon Moon, food bank board president, said that the food bank is looking for monetary donations to help stock its holiday food baskets which are handed out to families in need each year.
The Gleneagle Golf Course and Restaurant’s current owners are celebrating their first anniversary at the establishment this month with a series of fundraising tournaments that they hope will showcase the improvements they’ve made.
ARLINGTON — Members of the public recently got a chance to meet the five Arlington Fire Chief candidates.
About 75 community members showed up for a public open house and reception in the Arlington City Council chambers on Wednesday, Sept. 30.
Arlington residents were able to not only speak with the candidates, but also the City Council and Mayor Margaret Larson.
The city originally had six candidates for the fire chief position, which has been open since July 1.
Things started a little slow for the Cougars Sept. 24, but that didn’t stop them from having the most dominant result in a half of a decade.
Thanks in part to a donation from the Arlington Rotary Club, a group of Guaymi Indians in Panama now have fresh drinking water systems.
Leanne Davis wasn’t sure the Trafton Fair was happening this year.
Then she walked out to the end of her driveway.
“(My children) saw it being set up and asked about it,” Davis said. “They always have fun coming here — they love the prizes.”
ARLINGTON — North County Bank customers may have noticed a new name on their financial institution.
The bank, which has locations in Smokey Point, Marysville, Lake Stevens and Everett, reopened as branches of Whidbey Island Bank on Monday, Sept. 27, after the Washington Department of Financial Institutions closed North County on Friday, Sept. 24.
The federal agency, citing that North County had inadequate capital and severe loan losses, also announced that Whidbey Island Bank, headquartered in Oak Harbor, would assume the majority of the bank’s deposits and assets.
The Washington Department of Financial Institutions closed North County Bank in Arlington, Wash. today, citing inadequate capital and severe loan losses. Immediately following the closure, DFI named the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as receiver of North County Bank.
ARLINGTON — The Stillaguamish Senior Center will be holding a Health and Social Services Fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 6.
In addition to five health seminars, community members can get flu shots from Arlington Pharmacy, bone scans from Cascade Valley Hospital and speak with representatives from Community Services for the Blind and Partially Sighted, Hearing Loss Association of America, Medicare/Medicaid and more.
Information on social services will also be available from the departments of Social and Health Services, Social Security, Veterans Affairs and other agencies and organizations.
ARLINGTON — Community members looking to get rid of their old televisions or computers can soon bring those items to the Arlington High School parking lot for recycling.
Members of the high school robotics club will be teaming with PC Recycle to collect used home electronics at the high school from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2.
ARLINGTON — The city of Arlington will be holding an open house on Wednesday, Sept. 29, for residents to meet the new fire chief candidates.
The event will take place from 7-8:30 p.m. at the City Council Chambers, located at 110 E. Third Street.
City spokeswoman Kristin Banfield said that the names of the candidates were not immediately available.
ARLINGTON — Thanks in part to a donation from the Arlington Rotary Club, a group of Guaymi Indians in Panama now have fresh drinking water systems.
On Thursday, Sept. 16, Aleph Fackenthall, coordinator of an annual volunteer trip to the Bocas Islands, along with Rick Schranck, pastor of Christ the King Church in Arlington and Dr. Ron Guderian from Seattle, spoke about their most recent trip to the remote Bocas Islands off the coast of Panama.
The Rotary Club donated $1,000 to this past year’s trip, which involved a number of Arlington and Stanwood residents. Those funds helped the group purchase and install 600-gallon water containers to capture waterfall, as well as provide medical and dental care to Panamanians living in remote villages that don’t have access to such services.
