News

Anacortes Police responded to a high than usual number of Internet, prescription and bank fraud complaints this week.

In his annual State of the City speech, Mayor Dean Maxwell focused on the business of government. He stressed, "The need for good jobs is particularly clear in this time of economic hardship, where people struggle to find full time work and small business owners’ fight to keep their businesses open."

The Port of Anacortes has announced that they allow people to live aboard their boats for the first time in 30 years at the Cap Sante Marina.

Chandler’s Square resident Frank Thompson and two friends join local artist Jennifer Bowman work to turn a storage room into a model railroad display.

The Anacortes Library Board of Trustees will meet next week and Debra Peterson, Sedro-Woolley Public Library Director, will be the guest speaker.

Seattle area residents rallied over the weekend at the gates of the Puget Sound Shell refinery in solidarity with Idle No More and the Tar Sands Blockade.

The arrests of two people with Felony Warrants on A Ave in Anacortes Sunday afternoon caused quite a stir because several law enforcement agencies joined APD officers. No one was injured and the suspects are in jail.

A substantial section of Anacortes was hit by a power failure Sunday night. A electrical transformer on west Third St. failed at around 6pm Sunday evening. Puget Sound Energy dispatched a crew to restore the power. We don't have any further details.

Thieves stole an estimated $5,000 in wiring from a construction job site over the weekend. But, thanks to some police work, three suspects were arrested and the wire recovered from a recycling center.

The city has received a grant via the Safe Routes to Schools Grant to reconstruct the intersection at 22nd St. and M Ave. to enhance pedestrian safety at this intersection. Construction will begin this summer.