The county has been allocated $750,000 in federal money to build a new ferry terminal for the Guemes Island ferry. But, the state failed to get $26 million to build a new Anacortes ferry terminal.

The Anacortes Futures Project, an effort by the Chamber of Commerce to improve city planning, has received high marks from City Council members.

The city has reopened Heart Lake to swimmers after closing it Friday afternoon because of unusually high fecal coliform counts.

State Senator Kevin Ranker, from San Juan Island, has opened a districtoffice in Anacortes City Hall and has hired a new legislative assistant, Ann Larson.

This photograph was taken at the foot of Commercial Avenue at Ocean Dock, the place where most travelers arrived and departed until autos and roads became more convenient than water travel.

It was a busy week with several goofy cases, including a drunk guy on bicycle running into telephone pole and a 17-year-old boy who claimed that a total stranger had just walked up and put 2 cases of beer into his vehicle.