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DCR path plans

The state Department of Conservation and Recreation, DCR, has submitted its draft plans for a path along the Alewife Brook to the town.
These copies of the plans are courtesy of the town Department of Planning and Community Development. The plans are also available at Robbins Library.
The first photo is an overview of the project and [...]

VIDEO: Laramie actors talk

Arlington High School Drama Guild members talk about their experiences with the show.

Also, Acton High School had to fend off protestors (with counter protests) at its performance of “The Laramie Project” last year.

Laramie online

A decade has passed since Matthew Shepard, an openly gay college student, was murdered and tied to a fence in Laramie Wyoming.
The awful killing made the country take a hard look at homophobia. And playwright Moises Kaufman used interviews with Laramie residents to create a play about their reaction.

This weekend AHS is putting [...]

Results here

To download an Excel document of Arlington’s election results, click here.
84.48 percent of the electorate turned out to vote, which is a little more than 1 percentage point more than in 2000 and about 1.5 percent greater than in 2004.

Election Day experiences

Hey, Arlington voters.
We want to hear what your experience at the polls was today.
Write in the comment section below to let us know about wait times, electoral anectdotes and bake sale reviews…

Local journo detained in Nigeria

The Committee to Protect Journalists reported this Friday that a blogger, who used a post office address in Arlington, was detained by Nigerian authorities when he arrived in the port-city Lagos, on Tuesday.
According to an anonymous post on his blog, Huhuonline, Emmanuel Emeka Asiwe was in the country for a burial and has not had [...]

School’s out for Election Day

Arlington Public Schools students have the day off and teachers have a professional development day on Election Day, Nov. 4.
All seven of the town’s elementary schools are used as polling stations.
To find out what precinct you live in, click here. To find out where your precinct’s polling station is, click here.

The Farmers’ Market was _____!

The municipal parking lot is a lot colder and windier these days, and the Farmers’ Market has packed up for the season.
Oakes Plimpton, who helped start the market years ago is stepping down, and Patsy Kraemer is taking over.
Kraemer is currently on the Open Space Committee and is the former director of Human Services.
There is [...]

Bus stop mural done: Dedication Friday

Dearborn Academy students and a few professional artists have completed their mural on the side of the Arlington Heights bus stop.
This Friday, Halloween, the mural will be dedicated in an event scheduled to last from 10:15 to 11:45 a.m.
The muralists aimed to show Arlington, through its history, and if you can’t make it to the [...]