The city has placed these signs around Heart Lake because of a possible algae bloom in the lake. Jonn Lunsford, with the city Parks and Recreation Dept. says test samples are being taken today. Results won't be back until next week.

The City Council has approved a 5-percent wage increase over the next 2 years for the city's police officers.

I want to share a note of praise to Anacortes citizens I received this week from Fred Steele, who took a fall at Safeway, but was helped by a citizen.

The permanent replacement for the collapsed Interstate 5 Skagit River Bridge span reached a major milestone on Tuesday, as crews began setting eight enormous concrete girders that will support the new roadway.

Looks like the North Cascades Highway will be closed for a few more days. The highway was closed Saturday morning because of two mudslides, but according to Jeff Adamson of WSDOT, "By mid-day on Sunday, instead of two slides, we were dealing with 8 of them."

Police arrested for drunk driving a 73-year-old Guemes Island man in line at the Guemes Ferry after he repeatedly dozed off, then woke up and hit the car in front of him in line.