The Northwest Clean Air Agency is calling a Stage 1 air quality burn ban for Island, Skagit and Whatcom counties because high levels of harmful wildfire smoke particles are impairing local air quality. The ban starts at 8 a.m. Monday and will remain in effect until further notice.
A camping enthusiast who stole a $200 Coleman 5-person dome tent is in for a treat should the their actually use the tent.
Residents will have to deal with a few detours for about three weeks in the area of 32nd Street and D Avenue, where a single-lane roundabout will be constructed starting next week.
Forecasts call for some wildfire smoke to reach Skagit County this week. Periodic east winds could bring in smoke from fires in the North Cascades, causing air quality to deteriorate to “Moderate” or “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” on occasion.
It took someone only one hour to break into a locked pickup truck near Anacortes Marina and steal a generator valued at $1,000.
The city this weekend launched the first of several planned Greenways, marked routes aimed at getting citizens moving on bikes and on foot using quiet, low-traffic side streets.
Anacortes Police this week arrested and booked into county jail a potential suspect in a series of vehicle prowls.
The city will start work paving M Avenue from Eighth Street to 27th Court as part of its ongoing asphalt preservation program on Monday, August 6.
An Anacortes Police officer helped a 93-year-old woman get her water turned back on after a city employee requested a welfare check after the water was turned off.
A 19-year old driver totaled his car and completely destroyed a light pole in a crash on Commercial Ave that occurred as he was texting, according to this week’s police blotter.
