At this month's First Friday Gallery Walk, you'll find a collection of landscapes, seascapes, floral, animals and abstractions, including this work “Agate Beach Morning” by Jane Wallis. Gallery Walk is this Friday, from 6 - 9 pm.

A Seattle man who said Anacortes “seemed like a nice place to get away” ended up finding a place in jail after Anacortes Police stopped him and charged him with drunk driving.

“I packed up my whole life. It’s all in storage right now so, if I didn’t make it through selection, I was literally not going back to anything,” said Staff Sgt. Rachel Fischer of the 448th Civil Affairs Battalion based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., and resident of Anacortes.

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.