The city is finalizing engineering plans for a $60 million expansion and upgrade of the city's water treatment plant, located in the riverbend area of Mount Vernon. The aim: more capacity, better reliability and continued high water quality.

Thieves stole numerous expensive items during prowls of 4 unlocked vehicles in the south end of the city over the weekend of June 18-20.

The Samish Indian Nation unveiled a healing totem pole Saturday in a 2 hour ceremony at the Samish-owned Fidalgo Bay Resort & RV Park. One small hitch: as the pole was being unwrapped, one of the blankets caught on an edge and a aerial bucket vehicle had be used to unsag the blanket.

The state has agreed to transfer ownership of Huckleberry Island, just east of Guemes island, to the Samish Island Nation. The state Parks and Recreation Commission approved the transfer this week.

These warm summer days help our fruits and veggies grow and we are all so ready for this season to get going.  Strawberries are officially here and we had our first appearance of cherries (the beginnings of the beautiful fruit from east of the Cascades).

The Samish Indian Nation will raise this healing pole, now resting in a shed, during a ceremony the Fidalgo Bay RV Park. The pole was originally intended as a healing pole after the trestle fire last October.