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.

Sixteen new interpretive signs that tell the history and culture of Fidalgo Island will be unveiled by the Trail Tales team that created them at a ceremony this Saturday at Seafarers’ Memorial Park.

They may not win, but a two-person team from Anacortes is in good position to finish second in the 750-mile non-motorized boat race from Port Townsend to Ketchikan, Alaska.

The state Department of Ecology has agreed to a request by Skagit County to serve as a co-lead agency to oversee the preparation of an environmental impact statement (EIS) for a proposal by the Shell Anacortes oil refinery to develop a rail unloading facility for crude oil deliveries.