Anacortes Police responded to a high than usual number of Internet, prescription and bank fraud complaints this week.

In his annual State of the City speech, Mayor Dean Maxwell focused on the business of government. He stressed, "The need for good jobs is particularly clear in this time of economic hardship, where people struggle to find full time work and small business owners’ fight to keep their businesses open."

The Port of Anacortes has announced that they allow people to live aboard their boats for the first time in 30 years at the Cap Sante Marina.

Chandler’s Square resident Frank Thompson and two friends join local artist Jennifer Bowman work to turn a storage room into a model railroad display.

The Anacortes Library Board of Trustees will meet next week and Debra Peterson, Sedro-Woolley Public Library Director, will be the guest speaker.

Seattle area residents rallied over the weekend at the gates of the Puget Sound Shell refinery in solidarity with Idle No More and the Tar Sands Blockade.