Anacortes Police arrested a mail thief and recovered more than 500 pieces of mail and packages that had apparently been stolen from 140 people, most of them from Anacortes.

Mount Vernon artist Mary Maue is one of the local artists featured at this Friday’s Art Walk in downtown Anacortes.

Anacortes Police officers wondered what was going on when they discovered the back door of the police station was blocked.

Nominations are now being accepted for the Walter A. Brodniak Award for Cultural Education, which was created to foster growth of the cultural arts in the school district.

In a bizarre case, police contacted a man who was waving a flag and walking in the median of highway 20 near Reservation Road.

Scholarship applications are now available from the Anacortes Noon Kiwanis Club for the 2017-18 school year.