Mayor Dean Maxwell and a half-dozen supporters took to the streets of old town on Saturday to do a little door-to-door campaigining to remain his seat.

Police were called to the high school on Wednesday over possible threats by a student.

Anacortes barber Eric Neufeld passed away Friday after battling cancer since February. A viewing is scheduled at Evans Funeral Home this Monday from 5-8 p.m.

Anacortes Police seized more than $3,000 in suspected methamphetamine during an arrest of a man wanted for intent to manufacture and sell meth.

The City Council has given the city administration the go ahead to develop a work plan that would allow the sale of marijuana for recreation in the one store allowed in Anacortes under state rules.

During a carefully choreographed series of activities, crews slid and lowered the new, permanent span for the Interstate 5 Skagit River Bridge into its final location and reopened the roadway to traffic around 2 p.m. Sunday.