The business people planning a hotel-restaurant development on the Guemes Channel are working with the state to downsize their proposal. GEMS had proposed a 32-room inn, a 100-seat restaurant and an 86-seat lounge on an existing pier near D Ave. and Ninth St.

A naked man answered the door at his home when Anacortes Police came to investigate a report of very aggressive driving and a near miss on highway 20.

Black smoke was visible over March Point Wednesday afternoon as a result of Tesoro Refinery said was boiler problems, and not a fire, though flames were easily visible from Anacortes.

A new master plan for the city’s shoreline, four years in the making, has been approved by the City Council. The final draft of the Shoreline Master Program, which will now be sent to the state Department of Ecology for review, will put shoreline regulations into a single document.

The City Council has okayed partial funding of the Anacortes Futures Project, approving just one-half of the $25,000 requested of it by a committee steering the project, aimed at fashioning a vision of Anacortes in the future.

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.