Anacortes Family Shelter director Eric Johnson receives a check for $12,000 from Soroptimist President Barbara Larson during Sunday's open house for the just-completed family shelter, located on 27th St, just west of Commercial Ave.

Five vehicles parked at the Cap Sante Marina had windows broken out of them on Thursday night.  The Security guard alerted police after he heard a car alarm go off in the parking lot and discovered the damaged vehicles.

New this week at the Anacortes Cinemas: The Informant: Matt Damon is a slippery corporate whistler who fancies himself 0014 because he's "twice as smart as 007." Also on screen here: 9, Whiteout, & Inglourious Basterds.

A dozen community leaders use a dozen gold-colored shovels to break ground just south of Cap Sante Marina for a new Northwest Career & Technical Academy, a joint venture involving Skagit County high schools and Skagit Valley College.

Math teacher Jeff Holtgeerts and science teacher Victor Garcia flank tuba player Robert Dyer, who has worked to keep the AHS project on track after the graduation of Kirsten Woodsmith in 2008.

More than three-dozen people turned out Wednesday night for a public meeting about registered sex offenders and, specifically, about one Level 3 offender who will be released in Anacortes next week.