Two recent proposals a branch campus of the University of Washington in Lakewood and a Community Transit transit center in Smokey Point are being touted as a possible impetus for a solution to the traffic woes in the Lakewood and Smokey Point areas.
As an elected official charged with ensuring the safety and well-being of over 5,200 students in the Arlington Public Schools, I feel it is absolutely essential to our community that we continue to have a vital emergency room at Cascade Valley Hospital.
Last season the Arlington boys soccer team struggled through a losing season. This year, renewed optimism coupled with the return of several key players who missed last season gives the group plenty with which to work.
SNOHOMISH COUNTY
Last week was the first meeting of The Marysville Globes Reader Advisory Board which was attended by some extremely enthusiastic people who offered some very good opinions as to what they would like to see in their community newspaper. Were looking forward to the same response at the first meeting of The Arlington Times RAB, scheduled for Feb. 22, beginning at 4 p.m.
For every one of the two trillion dollars spent during the three-plus years of the Iraqi war, a hundred questions have been asked and a thousand answers given.
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More than 50 contestants from across the state and even Canada turned out for the Snohomish County All American Girl preliminary pageant Feb. 27, more than doubling the pageant’s usual preliminary turnout numbers.
The graduating class of Arlington High School earned $1.3 million in scholarships, said AHS principal Kurt Criscione during his humorous and tearful address to the graduating Class of 2009.
The four students smiled as Cody Schwans held the team’s spoils — a piece of PVC pipe dripping with chlorinated water.
The $4,000 raised by this year’s “Coaches vs. Cancer” boys basketball game at Arlington High School on Friday, Jan. 18, was just the start of the evening’s long-term charitable accomplishments.
While the skies might have turned slightly gray and rainy over the Arlington Municipal Airport by the next day, the first day of this year’s Arlington Fly-In treated thousands of children to aviation-themed fun in the hot summer sun. The traditional opening day Wednesday “Kids Day” on July 6 drew even more attendees than Arlington Fly-In Executive Director Barbara Tolbert could keep track of exactly.
The Stillaguamish Valley Pioneer Association’s 101st annual “Pioneer Picnic” on Sunday, Aug. 18, recapped the city of Arlington’s past year while offering promises of what its citizens could look forward to in the year that lies ahead.
