Following up on a discussion that started last fall, the City Council approved an ordinance that sets benefits for the mayor, including setting vacation time.
It was a quiet New Years, but three minutes into the new year, Anacortes Police Officers were dispatched to the 400 block of Commercial Avenue per the report of a male subject urinating on a building and turning over planter boxes in the area.
Fire destroyed a car and the garage the care was in at a home in the 5400 block of Sunset Ave. Friday morning, according to the Anacortes Fire Department.
Two men were medevaced to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle following a late night head-on collision Tuesday night on Oakes Ave. The collision, just west of Anacopper Rd., prompted the closure of Oakes for a few hours following the 10 pm accident.
The school district, in effort to gain public support for a February bond vote, has scheduled a neighborhood meeting, a community presentation and three public tours of the high school.
A gurney is rushed into a doctor’s office at Island Hospital as part of a drill Tuesday night. The drill’s scenario: an angry patient comes to the doctor’s office and shoots and injures four patients, who needed to be taken to the hospital’s Emergency Room.
Some Grinch stole Santa and a yard display from a home just days before Christmas.
Several county officials were sworn into office this week by Superior Court Judge Michael Rickert, including Jeanne Youngquist, Auditor; Katie Jungquist, Treasurer; Daniel Dempsey, Coroner; and Will Reichardt, Sheriff.
Christmas is a special time of year. But, this couple will remember Christmas Eve as the day they got engaged... at Deception Pass Bridge. Photographer Keith Morgan captured the scene shortly before sunset on Wednesday evening.
Here are a few tips for the open road may help you avoid a situation that could make your holidays a little less than joyful.
