There are more homeless people in Anacortes this year, compared with last year, with an increase from 75 last year to 93 this year.

Geppetto’s Italian To Go will close soon after more than 20 years in business on Commercial Ave. Geppetto’s offers catering and food to go.

The city Planning Commission has okayed the construction of 38 condos and 22 single family homes on six acres at Ship Harbor.

State ferry workers with five unions have voluntarily agreed to forego pay raises this year. The raises, which ranged from 1.6 percent to 10.7 percent were negotiated last year.

A teen who was allegedly burglarizing a local business lost a shoe after he was scared off when a burglar alarm went off last week. 

A bicyclist was knocked off his bike on the Tommy Tompson Trail when he hit a cable stretched across the trail.