“It came from out of nowhere,” recalls Gary Dear of the life-changing Mother’s Day, 2010. “Ice cream, that’s what I was going to do.”

In this series we explored the disgrace of the fad diet, nutritional supplement, and food industries; thus it is my hope you are better informed and therefore better equipped to make healthier choices.

There is some good news on this week’s police blotter… A Police officer discovered a wallet that the wallet’s owner didn’t know was missing.

We've had rain for the last couple of days and more rain is in the foreast. But, here's a ray of sunshine I discovered while riding my bike around March Point last Wednesday.

One of the most remarkable human accomplishments is the population of the inhospitable Arctic. Half Inuit and half white, Anacortes resident John Ireton arrived in our town in 1981, perhaps guided by his inbred survival skills and sensitive ear.    

A fourth generation fisherman, Jake Anderson, who left Anacortes as a kid to become a fisherman in Alaska has written a new book about his adventures on the F/V Northwestern, one of those boats featured on the Discovery Channel series The Deadliest Catch.