A joint City-Port plan for a community event center drew praise and suggestions to slow down until more solid numbers come in.

This week’s Anacortes Police Blotter includes reports of a downtown fight leading to a dsuspect being booked in jail and an arrest of a suspect at a town park with suspected fentanyl and methamphetamine.

The workers’ union says it didn’t coordinate the sickout that led to mass cancellations and took most of the vessels out of the water.

Anacortes City Council members and Port Commissioners are set to get an update on plans for a community event center and improvements around the northwest corner of Cap Sante Marina.

Some downtown Anacortes shops will be open late Friday evening for the monthly Gallery Walk. 

Washington’s largest utility is proposing to increase electricity rates by nearly 30%. For more than four hours on Tuesday, members of the public urged state regulators to reject the proposal.