The Skagit Land Trust will soon have a new live heron Web cam at the March Point Heronry, the West Coast’s largest heron colony, thanks to grants from the D.V. and Ida J. McEachern Charitable Trust, Shell Puget Sound Refinery, and The Mountaineers Foundation.

Island View Elementary is the winner of the sustainability prize with their third walk-to-school campaign, which has seen both their numbers increase each year and alumni from the program walking and riding to school!

Police charged a Bellingham man with assault and unlawful imprisonment, both felonies, for duct-taping his girl friend’s arms and mouth to keep her quiet and to keep her from leaving an apartment here.

Tires on police vehicles were punctured again early Friday morning, apparently the latest episode of vandalism at the Police station on M Ave.

Skagit County will host a meeting next week to update the public on the Clean Samish Initiative (CSI),which is designed to achieve pollution reductions in the Samish Basin and chart a way forward for long-term solutions in the basin.

This acrylic, Fall Foliage by Jennifer Bowman, is one of many art works that will be on show during the first Gallery Walk of 2014 this Friday evening from 6 - 9 pm.