ARLINGTON – The city signed an agreement with Sterling Bank to negotiate terms for a long-term bond to finance construction...

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City Council works toward financing new Fire Station 48
Douglas Buell

ARLINGTON – Arlington schools are closed through April 24 to help fight the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, but that...

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Arlington students won’t go hungry during the COVID-19 school closures
Douglas Buell

ARLINGTON – Skagit Regional Health, which includes Cascade Valley Hospital, is caring for patients who tested positive for the COVID-19...

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Skagit Valley Health, Cascade Valley Hospital testing 1st COVID-19 cases
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ARLINGTON – When Arlington public school leaders met for a special meeting March 12 to decide if and for how...

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Arlington closed until April 24 amid COVID-19 outbreak: what’s next?
Douglas Buell

ARLINGTON – The coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak may not be wreaking havoc on society the way a natural disaster like an...

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Schools, elder care facilities, churches, city adapt to life disrupted by COVID-19
Douglas Buell

ARLINGTON – As some cyclists know well from painful experience, crossing railroad tracks embedded in a paved trail or on...

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City’s realignment project to put the brakes on bicycle accidents at skewed rail crossing
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ARLINGTON – The city of Arlington recently hired an engineering firm to design a new signalized intersection at 40th Avenue...

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172nd Street work coming this year; it’s not the big widening project
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ARLINGTON - The city of Arlington plans to refinance two bonds and a promissory note for the Graafstra property that...

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Bond refunding to save city of Arlington over $1 million in interest
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ARLINGTON – As coronavirus concern grows in the Arlington area, school districts, local governments and first responders are taking extra...

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What city, schools, first responders are doing to stop the coronavirus from spreading
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ARLINGTON – With the 2020 U.S. Census only weeks away, residents are being urged to make themselves count by completing...

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2020 Census a month away: What Arlington residents should know
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