Demolition is under way Monday morning on the old Packard House, built in 1929 at 101 Fifth St, in the Cap Sante neighborhood. A 2005 survey of historic homes in Cap Sante done for the state Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, called this home, "One of the city's most significant properties."

A cold drizzle greets early morning risers in Anacortes on Nov. 25, the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Neil Stuchal does not worry about the weather, he is busy tending to the fire and meats cooking in the enormous stove at Dad’s Diner at the corner of Commercial Avenue and 22nd Street. He knows it will be another busy day serving hungry customers, rain or shine.

Tethys Enterprises has apparently met the city’s Dec. 1 deadline to locate a site for a planned bottling plant and deliver a legal description and map to the city. The plant site is not the site they proposed earlier this year, but it is nearby.

A 58-year-old Guemes Island woman suffered a serious laceration and possible leg and hip fractures after a pickup backed into her and pinned her between the open tailgate and the wall of a storage structure at a mini storage business in the 9000 block of Molly Lane on Friday morning, Nov. 30.

State Rep. Kris Lytton has been elected by her fellow House Democrats to serve as Deputy Majority Floor Leader during the upcoming 2013-14 legislative sessions.

The Anacortes School Board, with Board members Jeannette Papadakis, Bobbilyn Hogge, Lynne Lang, Karl Yost and Robert Maxson, is one of 23 schools boards in the state to be named as a Board of Distinction by the Washington State School Directors Association.