A proposal by the Anacortes School District to lay off several school counselors drew a crowd at Thursday’s school board meeting, with more than a dozen parents, school staff and students calling to avoid the reductions. 

Earth Day in Anacortes spans the entire weekend this Friday and Saturday.

The Island Health tax levy appears headed for approval, at least after the first vote count Tuesday night.

In this week’s Police Blotter, officers to what appeared to be a drug overdose, responded to a cyber fraud report and gave a lift to a hitchhiker.

A whale watch company with a spare vessel is operating the demonstration of passenger-only ferry service from Anacortes to the San Juan Islands until June 30. 

Sailing down Puget Sound on May 24, 1792, Capt. George Vancouver wrote in his journal of an abundance of dogs that “were all shorn as close to the skin as sheep are in England.