With the New Year, Anacortes Now is proud to introduce a new columnist. Jennifer Shouse will write about health and nutrition twice a month or so. Her first column is an introduction...

Laurie Gere will officially move into the Mayor’s office at City Hall on Thursday. She was sworn in by City Clerk Steve Hoglund on Dec. 23 during a private ceremony as family, friends, political supporters and a few city staffers watched.

Police are crediting an alert port security guard with spotting a man crawling on his hands and knees soaking wet and bleeding in the early hours of Sunday morning, when the temperature was running around 30 degrees.

The Shell refinery at March Point has filed for permits to allow construction of a rail yard to receive crude oil from North Dakota, much like Tesoro, the other March Point refinery, has already done.

Twenty-one-year-old Miguel Martinez is being sought by Yakima County authorities for the shooting death of Carmen Johnson, the stepson of a Sunnyside Police Officer.

The Anacortes & Fidalgo Model Railroad Club has filled the Anacortes Museum’s Anacortes Presents display case with an interesting assortment of model railroad pieces – track-maintenance equipment, steam and diesel locomotives, logging cars, a tugboat, passenger-type equipment and miscellaneous vehicles, as well as several model railroad structures.