The city will push ahead this summer to clean invasive milfoil plants from a three-acre area of Heart Lake. Funding for the $33,000 project comes from a grant from the state Department of Ecology.

The City Council has okayed a final agreement with the County on how a proposed new county jail would be operated and how the annual operating costs would be paid for, should voters across the county approve an increase in the sales tax of three-tenths of one percent.

The City Council has approved a $123,000 contract to begin designing the next section of the Guemes Channel Trail, from the east end of the current trail to close to Lovric's Sea-Craft marina, a distance of about 3,200 feet or more than a half-mile.

Anacortes Police arrested a man and issued a citation for illegal possession and discharge of fireworks after complaints of aerial fireworks at a private home on Oakes Ave. on the day after the Fourth.

Work to install the new permanent span for the Interstate 5 Skagit River Bridge in Burlington is officially underway. The new span will be built over the river, then slid into place on rails, as shown in this design drawing.

Southbound lanes of I-5 north of Burlington will be closed next week for highway repair, affecting traffic.