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An early morning call to 911 from a local hotel about loud voices and a fight ended with a male booked in Skagit County Jail.

City planner Libby Grage answers questions from a table of citizens at a community planning workshop, where dozens of residents discussed how the city could accommodate an expected six thousand new residents over the next 20 years.

Anacortes Police have arrested two teenagers in connection with the early morning burglaries of two businesses here.

The city has openings on two boards and commissions, including the Planning Commission and is looking for applicants.

The Anacortes Senior College is offering a dozen afternoon and evening class, ranging from Spanish, Health Fads, Garden Threats and Retirement & Investment Planning, for its spring term, starting on April 14.

As part of the City’s sanitary sewer management program, the City of Anacortes Public Works Department is moving forward with a project to provide for the replacement of several sanitary sewer conveyance lines in the city.

Shell's oil-by-rail project at their March Point refinery will need a full environmental impact statement, according an order by a Skagit County Hearing Examiner.

An 88 year-old Anacortes man was cited for hit-and-run following an accident in which a bicyclist was hit on D Ave.  

The city is working on delivering on one of Mayor Gere’s early campaign promises: sprucing up of what’s called South Commercial Ave., the area between 12th and 34th streets in order to provide a better visual experience.

The city has scheduled for next Thursday another one of its community workshops, this one evaluating future land use alternatives for the city.