Flowers from Yeng Farm in Snohomish greeted Anacortes Farmers Market-goers Saturday morning.

This weekend marks the unofficial end of summer and the Port's final Friday night concert started the weekend off with the New Orleans style brass sounds of Tubaluba.

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?