We are now half way through our second special session. I believe that compromise is important. However, it should not come at the expense of cutting essential services to our most vulnerable.

Anacortes native Bill Mitchell has created, over a 30-year period of time, more than 150 colorful outdoor murals adorning the walls of buildings up and down this island community’s main street.

The city is taking a second day for an emergency fix for one house’s sewage line. Their sewage had been going into the city’s storm water system rather than the sewage system.

State Representative Kris Lytton and Mayor Laurie Gere (with her back to us) cut the ribbon launching the second page of Trail Tales interpretive signs along the Tommy Thompson Trail, around Cap Sante Marina and on the Guemes Channel.

Two juveniles were picked up and taken to the Skagit County Juvenile Detention Center in connection with a series of malicious acts, including smashing a vehicle windshield and jumping on the hood of another vehicle.

Their boat dismasted, the Anacortes team in the Race to Alaska has been forced out of the 750-mile non-motorized boat race from Port Townsend to Ketchikan, Alaska.