The School Board has already started pondering next year’s school budget and planning to cut as much as one million dollars from the current $26.4 million spending plan. 

Car prowls continued last week at Heart Lake. Approximately $1,500 worth of compact discs, a GPS unit valued at $300, and 90 prescription pills valued at $450 were reported stolen from a vehicle parked at the lake on Sunday, Mar. 7.

Former long-time Anacortes resident Lois Auchterlonie, pictured here, was one of the former Women Airforce Service Pilots honored with a Congressional Gold Medal for their WWII WASP service in a ceremony in Washington, DC.

Anacortes Police have arrested 3 people and are looking for 2 others in connection with the beating of an 32-year-old Anacortees man who told Police he was beaten and robbed at his home on 18th St.

Traffic along Sixth Ave. east of the Guemes Ferry Landing will be re-routed for the next 2 months while the city re-constructs Sixth from the ferry landing east to K Ave. That portion of Sixth will be closed starting Tuesday, Mar. 9.

Anacortes Police worked on a number of drunken driving cases last week, but the most interesting one involved a driver who drove through the middle of the roundabout at the Highway 20 intersection with Commercial Ave. Read on...