With about 20 feet of planking to be put down and some fencing yet to go up, city Parks Director Gary Robinson is hopeful that the newly renovated trestle across Fidalgo Bay could be open this weekend.

The City Council will take public testimony early next month on new rules to allow hens, but not roosters, in backyards. The city Planning Commission gave its okay in April.

Three GPS units were stolen from autos in Anacortes in one day, last Tuesday. All were taken from parked vehicles after someone smashed windows with a rock or concrete block.

Passengers on inter-island ferry routes may find delays starting Monday because the ferry system is pulling one inter-island ferry to participate in an exercise. The reduction in inter-island capacity will last from Monday, May 24, through Memorial Day and will involve 6 ferry moves, in total.

Fidalgo Island Packing Company and Alaska Packing Company, pictured here, built canneries in 1894 and 1895, respectively, at Ship Harbor, now the site of the Washington State Ferries terminal.

Nels Strandberg, Jr. and the team from Strandberg Construction pilot their winning entry in Saturday's Quick'n'Dirty boat building contest at the Waterfront Festival. They took first place in the race after building the boat.