On Friday, March 8, 2013 between the hours of 8:30 am and 12:30 pm, the City of Anacortes Public Works Engineering Department will be conducting potholing activities at the intersection of 22nd Street and R Avenue.

The community Monday night got the first chance to hear from the first of three candidates to replace School Superintendent Chris Borgen. Attendance was light, mostly school staffers, to hear from Mark Wenzel, who is currently Superintendent of the Methow Valley School District.

More than 50 people attended the Port’s third public forum on the future of the north and west basin areas of Cap Sante Marina. The next session will be April 8th, when the Port Commissioners meet with the City Council.

The Port has announced their expanded listing of the summer concerts scheduled at the Seafarers’ Memorial Park this summer. All concerts begin at 7 pm.

Two families returned home from vacations last week to find their homes ransacked and their cars taken in two separate incidents.

Crime scene tape is strung in front of the doors to Pilgrim Congregational Church on Commercial Ave., where an apparently deliberately-set fire in the basement Thursday morning caused an estimated $10,000 to $20,000 damage.