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Little by little. Year by year. One at a time, but faster than the Scotch broom can recover. That’s how progress is being made at Hope Island.

The Anacortes Middle School will be holding a clothing drive May 6-17, 2013 in preparation for the end of summer Ready to Learn Fair.

A firefighter climbs a ladder to check the roof of the Trident Seafoods plant in Anacortes following a small fire Saturday afternoon.

In an rather unusual burglary, four pallets containing 296 bags of bark were stolen from inside of a fenced area at a hardware store in the 1700 block of Q Avenue.

Ten-year-old Elijah Logan says he likes to grow plants. He obviously like to sell them, too. I found him on Commercial Ave. Friday night during First Friday Gallery Walk selling his young plants.

The city, on Monday, will give residents a close-up look at plans for the city's next roundabout, this one aimed at calming and smoothing traffic flow at an intersection that is sometimes difficult to cross.

Andrea Doll has announced her intention to run for Position 4 on the Anacortes City Council, saying, in a news release, “I feel so fortunate to live in such a beautiful place and it is my hope that I can contribute to our city’s future."

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Skagit County has received funding to run programing this coming summer.

I'm running for Anacortes city council position 5. My name is Brandon J. Robinson and I'm a 25 year old full time college student.

More than a dozen people told the Island Hospital Board Tuesday evening not to enter into an affiliation with a religious-based hospital system as they start a review of proposals from four hospital systems, two of which are Catholic-run institutions.