
Mayor Gere and Carla Bigelow cut the ribbon to officially open the new 1,900-squre foot fitness center at the Fidalgo Pool on Friday afternoon.

Mayor Gere and Carla Bigelow cut the ribbon to officially open the new 1,900-squre foot fitness center at the Fidalgo Pool on Friday afternoon.

Dozens of residents attended Thursday night’s school board meeting to hear about a proposal for a nearly $90-million bond issue to rebuild the high school. The school board is set to take action next month on the proposal generated by a 32-person school district facilities committee.
The School Board has set a public hearing for Thursday evening to consider a proposed $88-million bond issue to renovate the high school and make minor elementary school improvements.

The Guemes Island Ferry was scheduled for sea trials Wednesday with a return to service on Friday, but…sea trials have been moved to Friday.

Who knew? It's estimated that two-thirds of the people who work in Anacortes don't live here and the city wants to know why, so the city has launched an online survey, hoping for answers.
The 2:00 am call to Police was for possible shots fired near a church on J Ave.

More than 100 people, many of them Shell employees, squeezed into the meeting room at the library Thursday night for a public hearing involving Shell’s request to construct a crude-by-rail offloading yard at their March Point refinery.

The Friends of Skagit Beaches has premiered the first of four new short documentaries about cleaning up Fidalgo Bay.

The city opened its Emergency Operations Center Wednesday morning as part of a drill simulating an earthquake, followed by a seprate drill on Thursday.
Joseph Campbell wrote about the Hero's Journey, the stages that people go through as they grow and expand in consciousness.