Arlington Fire Chief Bruce Steadman was selected as the preferred candidate for new Snohomish County Fire District 1 chief by the board on Tuesday, August 22nd. He will become chief of the new South Snohomish County Fire & Rescue agency when it is formed on October 1st.

Mill Creek Police officers make any number of contacts and respond to numerous calls for service every day. This week’s police beat contains a brief description of a portion of those calls for the week of August 11th to August 17th.

Snohomish County’s paving contractor, Lakeside Industries, began removing and replacing last year’s chip seal pavement preservation overlay in Mill Creek’s Wildflower and Mill Park Village neighborhoods on Friday, August 18th.

A pet bird that died has tested positive for a bacterial disease called avian chlamydiosis, which can cause serious disease in birds and also rarely in humans. The bird had been boarded recently at the Wings of the World pet store located in Bothell.