The school district has made a slight adjustment to start and end times at the two in-town elementary schools. This change was made to streamline school bus routes and to make the drop-off and pick-up process more effective and timely for student(s).

The Island Hospital board decided not to negotiate with a larger partner at this time, thus going a different route than Skagit Regional Health and Cascade Valley Hospital, whose boards decided to affiliate with PeaceHealth and UW Medicine.

Two were arrested for burglary after police, responding to reports of lights moving around a home, discovered the pair in a crawl space.

The Attorney General’s Office has released a formal Attorney General’s opinion that states Washington hospital districts that receive tax funding and provide maternity services or information to women must also provide equivalent services or information about contraceptives and abortion.

Mayor Dean Maxwell has selected Sheri Miklaski to become Anacortes’ Library Director following Cynthia Harrison’s retirement next month.

The intersection of 22nd St. & M Ave. was re-opened on schedule this weekend after more than a month of construction work which inconvenienced motorists who use M Ave. as a north-south alternate to Commercial Ave.