Anacortes Now is on haitus due to illness. I don't expect to be back for some weeks. Keep in mind, though, that there is more than ten years of news here, available through search.

In this week’s Anacortes Police Blotter: a crash on Highway 20 near Sharpe’s Corner, theft of donuts from a grocery store, and noisy resident at a local hotel.

The agency says it plans to bring back the Anacortes-Sidney route around 2030. Its mothballing has spurred longing and a lawsuit from past riders.

Anacortes Police say a 61-year-old male is suspected of killing a 57-year-old woman, then killing himself at their home on K Avenue on Tuesday.

When I was a teenager, my best friend wanted to be a zookeeper. He raised snakes and frogs in his bedroom, and crickets and other critters to feed them.

In this week’s Anacortes Police Blotter, a reported cyber fraud case, a theft of contents in a delivery van and, yes, a mysterious face looking at a porch camera.