The city and county have both relaxed the burn bans that had been instituted during the warm weather.

It was more than a rush of seasonal energy that inspired the recent facelift at D Avenue Nursery, Fidalgo Island’s oldest retail garden center.

Two City Council members have initiated a move to ban smoking and camp fires in our forest lands.

The fire at Little Cranberry Lake is now 90% contained and improving. Fire crews from the state Department of Natural Resources remain working 14-16-hour shifts.

Several calls were received regarding a large deer with a hammock entangled around its antlers that was wandering from yard to yard near 22^nd Street and E Ave.

Firefighters continue to work on stopping the fire along the east edge of Little Cranberry Lake in the Anacortes forest lands, according to a Saturday morning update from the city.