Plans to build a Marine Skills Center in Anacortes are advancing and the City Planning Commission is set to review a request for a Conditional Use Permit.

It took a quick City Council vote recently to more than double the number of local buildings on the Anacortes Historic Preservation Register.

An Anacortes police officer caught a man driving 75 miles an hour on T Ave., which is only a dozen blocks long, last Thursday, May 21.

The School Board Thursday night okayed cutting another 20 employees. The latest round of cuts are so-called ‘classified’ staffers who are not teachers or administrators.

The Anacortes Schools Foundation presented more than 40 scholarships valued at more than $52,000 during a ceremony Wednesday night.

Filing forms are now available for offices up for election this year, including those of the Mayor, 4 City Council members, all of whom say they will seek re-election.