Fundraising for repairing the Tommy Thompson Trail trestle damaged by fire took a major step forward with new pledges totalling $50,000 from the Samish Indian Nation and the Puget Sound Energy Foundation.

A proposal to give a limited tax break for new residential construction in the downtown area drew mixed reviews and words of caution at Monday night's City Council meeting.

“What did they just do?” was a question from an audience member after the City Council Monday night okayed changes to the city’s Comprehensive Plan and Development Regs. 

Jewelry worth $15,000 was reported stolen from an Anacortes home and a fire hydrant was vandalized, causing a geyser on N Ave. Those are just two of the cases the Anacortes Police Department worked on this week.

Anacortes Police have released this sketch of a man they say used a handgun to hold up Steinman's Grocery on 12th St. on Saturday afternoon.

Unusually cold weather is upon us and the city has started spraying anti-icing material on some hilly streets around town. Meanwhile, the Port of Anacortes showed off its brand new snowplow during the Christmas parade Saturday.