With the school year right around the corner, volunteers will soon be giving away 500 backpacks to children in need.
The Back2School Rally takes place at 2 p.m., Aug. 29, at Presidents Elementary School, located at 505 E. Third Street.
Although Primary Election results continue to come in, most of races north Snohomish County residents took action on have not changed since Aug. 17.
The top two candidates in each race move on to the Nov. 2 General Election.
In the race for the U.S. Senate, Democrat Patty Murray and Republican Dino Rossi will be facing off.
As of Monday, Aug. 23, Murray had collected 643,139 votes statewide, or 46.41 percent of the vote, while Rossi saw 461,781 votes, or 33 percent. In Snohomish County, Murray, the incumbent, saw similar results, with 63,666 (46.2 percent) votes compared to Rossi’s 45,809 (33.3 percent).
ARLINGTON — Police Chief Robert Sullenberger is heading back to where he started his career in law enforcement.
Sullenberger, who joined the Arlington Police Department in April 2009, has accepted a job as Division Chief with the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado.
Sullenberger announced Aug. 17 that his last day in Arlington will be Sept. 17.
With the exception of the past year, Sullenberger had spent his entire 32-year career with the Boulder Police Department, rising through the ranks of the agency.
ARLINGTON — Downtown business owners and residents should not be concerned with the number of police vehicles near the city of Arlington Police Station.
The Arlington Police Department has been hosting a regional training session since Monday, Aug. 16.
ARLINGTON — An osprey rescued from a power line in Burien earlier this month has been euthanized.
The bird of prey had been transported to Arlington-based Sarvey Wildlife Care Center for treatment.
Organization staff members were unable to stabilize the bird’s injured leg, and after consulting with veterinary staff, decided to put the bird to sleep two days after it had arrived Aug. 10.
ARLINGTON — Transportation crews will soon be closing a two-mile section of SR 530 as they install solar-powered road reflectors.
Crews will close all lanes of the road between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 20 and Saturday, Aug. 21, while they put in the reflectors between both entrances to Oso Loop Road between Arlington and Darrington.
Local traffic will be able to access the road during construction, while other traffic will be detoured to Oso Loop Road.
ARLINGTON — A number of incorrect utility notices have been mailed out by the city of Arlington finance department.
Finance director Jim Chase said Tuesday, Aug. 17, that approximately 1,000 final notice statements were sent out to customers, most of which were erroneous, whose accounts were not delinquent.
The false notices came from an error in the city’s utility billing system, which apparently detected charges for the past two months regardless of whether the bill had been paid, Chase said.
The city recently changed its billing cycle from bi-monthly to monthly.
With temperatures flirting with 90 degrees, attendees of the 21st annual Stillaguamish Festival of the River and Pow Wow did their best to stay cool as they checked out the free celebration on Saturday, Aug. 14 and Sunday, Aug. 15 at River Meadows Park.
For 11-year-olds Madison Elsner and Ally Peterson, seeing wild kangaroos, hearing heavy accents and abiding by strict schedules weren’t the biggest adjustments they made while traveling in Australia.
ARLINGTON — The Arlington School Board had three options during its last meeting — increase taxes, lower taxes or keep them about the same.
In the end, it decided on the latter.
Sara Deeter describes herself as soft-spoken.
To that end, the 16-year-old Arlington High School student remained quiet during her first Arlington School Board meeting as junior class student adviser.
An Arlington High School to-be senior was among scholarship winners during a recent state competition.
Corinne McClure, daughter of Bob and Wendy McClure of Arlington, was awarded a $200 scholarship during the Washington state Distinguished Young Women program.
ARLINGTON — Crews responded to a shed fire in a mobile home park on Tuesday, Aug. 17.
Nobody was injured in the fire, which occurred in the 20000 block of 67th Avenue NE, but a nearby mobile home sustained heat damage and a broken window.
“The crews were very aggressive with putting water onto the fire, thereby confining the fire to the shed (and) minimizing damage to any living spaces around it,” said Arlington Fire Chief Jim Rankin.
