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.

Five men, one from Lake Stevens, one from Bellingham three from Anacortes were all arrested following a fight in front of a bar in the 300 block of Commercial Ave.  

We got the snow the forecasters said we would. Around 2 inches in the hills south of downtown. Enough snow to delay school starts by 2 hours. I took this shot in my neighborhood a bit before sunrise.

Due to adverse weather conditions there will be no Garbage or Recycling pickup Friday.