It’s hard to sneak something this big into Anacortes, and it is big: 100 feet long and ten feet in diameter. Even more interesting is that it will become part of a 50 by 400 foot cruise ship floating dock destined for a tiny Southeast Alaska village.

The city is planning to lower the speed limit for several streets around the high school from 25 to 20 miles per hour, in part as a result of a pedestrian being hit by a car making a turn.

The Port and Dakota Creek have combined several contracts and signed a 40 year agreement for continued use of Port facilities.

The effort to reopen the North Cascades Highway will begin next Monday from the east side and work from the west side will start a week later.

The city never intended to dig this big hole on R Ave, less than a year after it was repaved, but the contractor, while pulling a larger sewer line, ran into a manhole not on the city’s books, forcing this dig.

A new photo book celebrating 125 years of Anacortes history and 125 years of the Anacortes American newspaper is set for release this spring.