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.

Hundreds of people, many of them young kids, lined Commercial Ave. on Saturday to see Santa and this year they got to see him 3 times. Or was it 3 santas they saw? Anyway, this santa was early in the parade.