A new police officer is on the job now after being sworn in by Mayor Laurie Gere and Police Chief Bonnie Bowers at this week’s City Council meeting.

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Police took a 61-year-old woman into protective custody for a mental health evaluation after she took a stroller with a young child in it.

Anacortes-based author Jane Billinghurst's latest work is an English translation of an international bestseller by German forester and author Peter Wohleleben called The Hidden Life of Trees. The book was published this week and is already listed as a bestseller on Amazon.com. 

As part of the 2016 inflow and infiltration reduction program, the City is moving forward with the 2016 Commercial Avenue Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project.

APD received several reports of broken vehicle and building windows on Tuesday, Sept. 6.