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.
At its April 19 meeting, the County Road Administration Board (CRAB) voted unanimously to forward a $7.5 million funding request for Skagit County’s Guemes Island Ferry Replacement Project to the state Legislature for possible approval in 2019.
Seattle’s federal passport office’s phone system was apparently hacked this week and that had an impact on an Anacortes person.
