Anacortes should be as well known for its vibrant and varied community of musicians as it is for its visual arts and theater. How can we make this happen? The Anacortes Public Library's Manieri Endowment invites you to a round-table discussion of ways to promote and foster the love, performance and production of all forms of local music.

The Anacortes Museum has just launched its redesigned website, now linked to a searchable database of over 18,000 Anacortes Museum photographs and artifacts.

The Anacortes Seahawks pee wee football team of 7 and 8 year olds beat the LaConner Braves this weekend to win the North Cascades Youth Football League championship. The Seahawks held the lead throuought the game and defeated the Braves with a final score of 21 to 6.

A sharp-eyed bank teller here may have helped prevent a local man from being cheated several hundred dollars.

A 20-foot depiction of male genitals was discovered painted on H Ave. in front of a church. A smaller, similar picture was painted on the sidewalk in front of the church.

Site preparation work is now under way for a planned 19,000 square foot, one-story, 24-bedroom memory care facility on K Ave., near 34th St. that drew neighborhood opposition when the developer, Lanny Wixson, requested a conditional use permit to build the facility in the R3 residential zone.