Mayor Gere’s Transition Plan, now available on the city’s Web site, says the core values for her administration will include: an open and transparent government that is inclusive, participatory, effective and efficient.

The Walter A. Brodniak Cultural Education Award was created in 1977, upon Mr. Brodniak's retirement as Superintendent of the Anacortes School District, "to foster growth of the cultural arts in the District." 

The standing room only crowd at City Hall Monday night cheered after Laurie Gere, who took office last Thursday following an official swearing in on Dec. 23, was sworn in again, marking a changing of the guard at City Hall.

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.