The U.S. is in far different shape today than it was last Memorial Day, and many Americans are, too.

The Veterans Memorial Plaza at the high school will be open this Memorial Day, allowing the community to pay tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country.

Viewers could be excused for thinking Robert De Niro was just being a good fella in an ad promoting safe buildings amid the covid pandemic, along with the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga and Michael B. Jordan.

The first lunar eclipse of 2021 is going to happen during the early hours of May 26. But this is going to be an especially super lunar event, as it will be a supermoon, a lunar eclipse and a red blood moon all at once.

Starting on Tuesday, June first, the Anacortes Public Library will be open for what they call Express Browsing without appointments. Here are the details.

The final day to drive-up or make an appointment for a first-dose COVID vaccine at the Skagit County Fairgrounds will be Saturday, June 5.

Ronald Lindquist, 87, has been active all his life. So, he wasn’t prepared for what happened when he stopped going out during the coronavirus pandemic and spent most of his time, inactive, at home.

Plans are well underway to welcome everyone back to Come, Sit, Stay & Play for a Howlin’ Good Time at the Skagit County Fair, August 11-14. After a very challenging past 14 months, the Fair is looking forward to welcoming the community back this summer.

Once dismissed as a conspiracy theory, the idea that the covid virus escaped from a Chinese lab is gaining high-profile attention. As it does, reputations of renowned scientists are at risk — and so is their personal safety.

COVID-19 is notoriously hard to control, and political leaders are only part of the calculus when it comes to pandemic management. But some current and former world leaders have made little effort to combat outbreaks in their country, whether by downplaying the pandemic’s severity, disregarding science or ignoring critical health interventions like social distancing and masks. All of the men on this list committed at least one of those mistakes, and some committed all of them – with deadly consequences.<