More than 100 people gathered around tables with large maps and Monoply-like pieces and pondered what they would like to see done with the city’s largest parcels of under-developed land - property owned by MJB.

The 2015 city budget is on the agenda for the Mayor and City Council in the next three months and Mayor Gere writes about it in the latest edition of her "It's Your City" newsletter to the citizens of Anacortes.

Many newcomers to Anacortes wonder about the vacant land between R Avenue and Fidalgo Bay. "Why hasn't it been developed?", they ask. Then the conversation leads to what "we" think that "they" should do with the land.

Private, crowdsourced mobile phone applications addressing urban mobility collect troves of data on city flows. So how can municipalities tap into these databases to accurately understand the movement of their citizens?

Three fire crews were called to put out a fire on Sugarloaf, in the Anacortes Forest Lands over the weekend, according to Jonn Lunsford, with the city's Parks & Recreation Dept.

It was all fun and games at Saturday's Workboat Races on the Guemes Channel. Here a crew uses a slingshot to waterbomb the crowd standing on Pier One.