Within 10 years, all of the nation’s 74 million baby boomers will be 65 or older. The most senior among them will be on the cusp of 85.

Anacortes Police and sheriff’s deputies had to chase a wanted suspect through woods and grassy marsh before a K-9 was brought in from Whatcom County sniffed out the suspect.

Two separate vehicle thefts were reported in which the vehicles were later recovered out of the county, one in Lake Stevens, the other in the Tacoma area.

Place your unflocked tree, free of ornaments, lights and tinsel at the curb by 8:30am Saturday morning, Jan. 4. This service is a fundraiser for the Anacortes Key Club, which plans to use the funds raised to support the Thirst Project and the Anacortes Food Bank. 

There was what looks like a higher-than-usual number of reports of car prowls, package thefts and mail thefts during this Christmas week.

A brief high-speed chase on Highway 20 ended after the two occupants jumped out of the moving vehicle, which ended up on a pile of bark mulch.