''The Arlington Times'' is a

newspaper A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as poli ...

Arlington, Washington Arlington is a city in northern Snohomish County, Washington, United States, part of the Seattle metropolitan area. The city lies on the Stillaguamish River in the western foothills of the Cascade Range, adjacent to the city of Marysville, Wash ...

, published weekly from 1888 to 2020. It is owned by

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, who also operate the ''

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'' and '' Everett Daily Herald''.

History

''The Arlington Times'' began in 1888 as the ''Stillaguamish Times'', published in Stanwood to the west of modern-day Arlington. Publisher George Morrill moved the printing plant to Haller City in 1890, becoming ''The Haller City Times'', until moving into Arlington in 1894. It later absorbed the ''Haller City News'', which had been published since 1879. On July 17, 1897, the newspaper was renamed to ''The Arlington Times''. On November 7, 1918, ''The Times'' published an erroneous dispatch from the

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announcing that the ongoing war had ceased and an armistice was to be signed later in the day. The dispatch was actually reporting on a temporary ceasefire while German delegates arrived in Paris to negotiate an armistice, which was reached five days later. The article triggered celebrations in the city, including the hoisting of a wooden coffin for Kaiser

Wilhelm II Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until Abdication of Wilhelm II, his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as th ...

, and continued into the night despite the dispatch being rescinded. A celebration was also held for the actual armistice days later with 3,000 residents and visitors who doubled the city's population. The newspaper was owned by the Marsh family until 1964, when it was sold to future state representative Simeon R. Wilson, owner and publisher of the ''

''. Wilson sold ''The Times'' and ''Globe'' to Sun News in 1997.

acquired both newspapers from Sun News in 2007. Sound Publishing suspended printing of several newspapers, including the ''Globe'' and ''Times'', in March 2020 due to the economic effects of the

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. By April, furloughs and layoffs at Sound Publishing left both newspapers without any staff.

References

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