The city Council has approved Mayor Maxwell’s proposed 2014 budget of $45.6-million, an increase of about $1.8-million over this year’s budget. Included in the budget is a one-percent hike in property taxes.
On this week's police blotter...police arrested a man who witnesses said had removed 'no parking' signs on Coho Lane more than once.
The city Planning Commission is recommending rejection of a rezone request from MJB Properties that could bring a larger retailer, such as Fred Meyer, to Anacortes. The recommendation now moves to the City Council, which will decide the issue.
"The Bath," a short film by Anacortes filmmaker Mark Lundsten, shown here with his wife Teru, has won two awards at recent film festivals, both for Best Narrative Short.
Johanne Schmidt starts her day at 5:30 to do the morning bake. Her business, Jalillah’s Cookies, is located in the back of the Penguin coffee shop on Commercial Avenue.
A second of twin teenaged girls involved in a Halloween night traffic accident on Highway 20 near Gibralter Rd. died Monday in Seattle.
Members of OARS, the Old Anacortes Rowing Society, Monday helped pay tribute to the nation's veterans during the Veteran's Day ceremony at the Port of Anacortes as a Foss tug passed along the Guemes Channel.
CenturyLink said its crews have located both ends of a severed cable causing a network outage impacting the San Juan Islands and said the break may have been caused by an earthquake.
The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community and Washington State Parks have found funding to build a small parking lot and develop trails to allow anyone to the treasure called Kukutali Preserve on Kiket Island.
Telephone and Internet service is slowly coming back on line in the San Juan Islands as a barge team works to identify and pull the severed cable to shallower water, according to CenturyLink, which provides the phone and Internet service.
