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- The following is based on selected Arlington Police Department logs from April 16 through 22. No arrests were reported. Excerpts from the Arlington Police Department log: Tuesday, April 16 3:10 p.m. – Larceny under $1,200. A Lake Street resident reported the apparent theft from her front porch of a package containing $70 worth of goods […]
- Ottoson and Gibbs Middle School students perform the musical play "Mean Girls Jr." at Arlington High School, 869 Mass. Ave., on Friday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m., and on Saturday, April 27, at 7 p.m. The show is presented through Music Theater International. The action, as some may know from both the original film and […]
- UPDATED April 26: After hearing from supporters and opponents, the Arlington Select Board unanimously voted Wednesday night April 24 to postpone giving its views on Special Town Meeting Article 5: Resolution for a Ceasefire Proclamation. Town Meeting members are scheduled to take up that matter May 8, at Special Town Meeting; they have sole authority […]
- Menotomy Minutemen reenactors enter Town Hall Auditorium on April 24, 2023, exactly one year before Session 1 began at Town Meeting, when the same group briefly performed. / Bob Sprague photo UPDATED April 26: an inaugural meeting that ended just after 10:30 p.m. on a trial basis — a living experiment inspired by provisions in […]
- UPDATED 10:15 p.m. April 24: The Arlington Human Rights Commission (AHRC) voted in the early evening of April 24 to endorse a Special Town Meeting article seeking, among other goals, an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. The article's text: "To see if the Town will vote to adopt a proclamation in favor of an […]
- MWRA logo for illustration only UPDATED April 22: The reported Covid-19 infection rate in Middlesex County, which includes Arlington, fell significantly in the previous week. This most recent number, 425, is far lower than the 685 a week prior or either of the two before that (812 and 769). It is the lowest for the county […]