Two teams of students from Anacortes Middle School recently won 1st and 2nd place in the Seattle KidWind Challenge at the Museum of Flight, where they tested their hand-crafted functional wind turbines in a wind tunnel to calculate their energy output. Two other AMS teams did well at KidWind Nationals in Chicago
The Anacortes Boat & Yacht Show, which promises to be the largest boat show ever held here, opens Thursday and runs through the weekend at Cap Sante Marina.
Two athletes from Anacortes, members of the Thunderbird Aquatic Club Masters group and Puget Sound Masters, competed last weekend in the 2018 Nationwide U.S. Masters Swimming Spring National in Indianapolis, Indiana. Katie Kaestner and Matt Castle competed there this past weekend with Kaestner placing first, second or third in five events.
An Anacortes woman was assaulted in the downtown area late Sunday night as she walked home.
North Cascades Highway opened Friday morning after days of crews triggering avalanches to help clear some snow chutes along the way.
Sherry Chavers is this year’s recipient for the Walter A. Brodniak Cultural Education Award for her work with students on poetry and literacy.
A Saturday night fight in a south Commercial Ave. parking lot drew the police.
No word yet as to just what the the takeover of Andeavor (formerly Tesoro), operator of one of the two March Point refineries here, will mean locally.
After unsuccessfully searching for a kids’ tablet that went missing during a walk, an Anacortes woman got lucky.
The Anacortes Police Dept. is looking for the owners of several items recovered from the bottom of Heart Lake.
