Anacortes student scores on state tests taken in Spring 2016 show notable improvements from a year ago, according to school district superintendent Dr. Mark Wenzel.
The D Avenue Overlay Project is underway and it provides for resurfacing and road repair on D Avenue (between 37th and 17th Streets) and on 32nd street (between M and D Avenues).
BNSF Railway will pay a $75,000 fine and improve environmental protections during track maintenance work in Skagit and Whatcom counties under an agreement with the state Department of Ecology to settle a 2015 penalty for water quality violations.
Get your household cleaning done and bring your residential garbage and yard waste to our Operations Facility – no charge!
A 67-year-old man was treated and released at Island Hospital after he was bitten by a seal as he walked on the dock at a local marina.
Due to extended warm dry weather and extreme fire danger, a ban on recreational fires is in effect for the City of Anacortes.
(Updated) A citizen turned in a small parakeet to APD after finding him in the Storvik Park area this week. Police and Municipal Court staff are enjoying the bird’s company while waiting for an owner to identify him.
It might be a few miles from the Anacortes shorefront to the fairgrounds in south Mount Vernon, but this island community contributes in significant ways to the annual Skagit County Fair.
(Updated) An out-of-state driver who was spotted using his cell phone while driving on Commercial Ave. ended up with a whole slew of other changes, including the use of ‘borrowed’ license plates.
APD is hosting the National Night Out, an annual community-building campaign that promotes public service/community partnerships and neighborhood comradery to make our community a better and safer place to live, this Tuesday, from 6-8PM in Storvik Park.
