The first snowfall of the season hit town, with one to two inches on the ground in most areas by noon Monday, including the library, in this photo submitted by a reader.

A 51-year-old Anacortes man was cited for disorderly conduct after police were called to his home for a fourth time in a week for his excessive noise in the middle of the night.

City Planning Director Ryan Larsenis is answering what he terms some mis-information being circulated by critics of his proposal to hire a professional Hearing Examiner to handle city land use applications. 

The ferry Hyak has been pulled from service and will enter a drydock at Dakota Creek on Monday to get an exterior paint job. The boat lately has been sailing Puget Sound with rust on one side.

The lowest bidder for a contract to update and expand the city's water treatment plant came in well under the city's expected $60 million price tag and more than $10 million less than the city's original $67 million estimate. 

The Anacortes Arts Commission is recommending an 18-foot stainless steel sculpture for the roundabout that Commission chair Rita James said "is really going to make a statement."