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“I am a colorful character of Anacortes,” declares Mae-Louise Dopps, and many would agree. Her numerous colorful and flamboyant hats support the claim.

A woman was cited for theft after not paying a cab driver the $229 fare to drive her from Tacoma to Anacortes.

This Saturday is Small Business Saturday, a day set aside since 2010 between Black Friday and Cyber Monday to encourage shoppers to spend their holiday money at local mom-and-pop stores.

Anacortes Police have launched a sting in an effort to locate sexual predators in the area who target children.

The state Liquor Control Board has received five applications from businesses on Fidalgo Island to grow marijuana and only one application from the island to sell it.

Dick Schusler, John Conlee, Bob Easton, John Fuik and others at  Chandler’s Square retirement community have been busy. The efforts of building a model train track has been a daily occupation for them for nearly a year.

A sting operation resulted in the arrest by Anacortes Police of a 49-year-old Mount Vernon man after he traveled to Anacortes to meet with a 13-year-old girl to have sex.  

Completion of the roundabout project at 22nd St. and R Ave has been delayed and the city now says it won’t be finished and open to traffic until Dec. 6.

It's here, It's here! The Anacortes Farmers Market is incredibly excited to bring you our 7th Annual Holiday Farmer's Market, this Saturday & Sunday.

If you had met a robust, bearded man strolling down Commercial Avenue in this season of cheer, he may very well have wished you a “Holly Jolly Christmas”—evoking, no doubt, a lively tune that would dance in your head for days to come.