An Anacortes High School athlete has been named one of 12 Athletes of the Week this week by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association.
Firefighters sprayed foam at a traffic accident in which a former school bus had been converted to a camper rolled onto its side, blocking eastbound lanes of Highway 20 at Sharpe’s Corner on Tuesday morning.
The State Department of Transportation on Monday filed a $17 million lawsuit to recoup the costs of response and repair after the 2013 over-height vehicle collision that caused a portion of the Skagit River Bridge on Interstate 5 to collapse.
Steelworkers were on the picket line Monday outside the March Point Tesoro refinery which continues to operate with non-union personnel, according to the company.
The United Steelworkers Union called strikes Sunday morning at nine refineries, including the March Point Tesoro refinery. Sunday afternoon Tesoro said, “Operations continue here at our Anacortes refinery and we expect to fully transition to non-USW workers within the next 24-48 hours.”
Merrillee Moore’s 18-foot tall, 5,000 pound, stainless steel sculpture “Aerie” was installed with little fanfare Saturday in the Commercial Ave. roundabout.
Anacortes Police arrested and charged an Oak Harbor man with ripping a bathroom door off its hinges and damaging a wall at a Commercial Ave. hotel.
In another in a series of Career Education events, the Northwest Career & Technical is hosting a Career Manufacturing Industry Night in Anacortes this Wednesday.
Skagit County Health Department is changing direction and will be ending clinical services such as immunizations, in part as a resulf of the Affordable Care Act.
The city has reached new three-year tentative agreements with unions representing the Police and Fire departments with wage hikes of 6 percent for firefighters and 7.5 percent for non-commissioned police officers.
