Candidates for the state legislature joined candidates for county-wide seats at an Anacortes Candidates Forum, but only one-half of the initial audience stayed long enough to hear from the legislative candidates.

The County Prosecutor has filed criminal charges against the former Executive Director of the Island Hospital Foundation in connection with the embezzlement of as much as $300,000 over several years.

The Friends of Skagit Beaches will show four feature-length environmental films in the coming weeks in their Films with Friends series. Preceding the series is a fundraiser featuring two Seattle-based documentary filmmakers with behind-the-scenes stories.

The First Friday Gallery Art Walk, scheduled for Friday, Oct. 3, will feature a special exhibit at the Depot Arts & Community Center. “Pretty in Pink” will showcase fashion art and accessories created by the Wearable Arts Group of Fidalgo Island Quilters, the “Divas.”

Mayor Laurie Gere is proposing a $ 1.8-million city budget increase for the coming year, saying, however, that the city’s sales tax still has not rebounded to the peak achieved in 2007.

Feel the Rumble at Oyster Run 2014 Friday night, the deep rumble of motorcycles begins and the hum of rubber against pavement almost coo's.