A cold drizzle greets early morning risers in Anacortes on Nov. 25, the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Neil Stuchal does not worry about the weather, he is busy tending to the fire and meats cooking in the enormous stove at Dad’s Diner at the corner of Commercial Avenue and 22nd Street. He knows it will be another busy day serving hungry customers, rain or shine.
Tethys Enterprises has apparently met the city’s Dec. 1 deadline to locate a site for a planned bottling plant and deliver a legal description and map to the city. The plant site is not the site they proposed earlier this year, but it is nearby.
A 58-year-old Guemes Island woman suffered a serious laceration and possible leg and hip fractures after a pickup backed into her and pinned her between the open tailgate and the wall of a storage structure at a mini storage business in the 9000 block of Molly Lane on Friday morning, Nov. 30.
State Rep. Kris Lytton has been elected by her fellow House Democrats to serve as Deputy Majority Floor Leader during the upcoming 2013-14 legislative sessions.
The Anacortes School Board, with Board members Jeannette Papadakis, Bobbilyn Hogge, Lynne Lang, Karl Yost and Robert Maxson, is one of 23 schools boards in the state to be named as a Board of Distinction by the Washington State School Directors Association.
State Ferries Director David Moseley says a proposed reduction in ferry service from Anacortes to Sydney, BC, would carry 92 percent of the passengers that now use that route. He told the Anacortes Ferry Committee Tuesday that the reduction from 40 weeks of service to 32 weeks bring profitability to 70 percent from the low 60's.
An Anacortes man discovered that he had been the victim of identity theft after learning that someone had opened up a credit card account in his name and used it a number of locations until the limit was maximized.
Due to an unexpected necessary engine repair, the Guemes Island Ferry will provide passenger-only service on Monday, Nov. 26 on the 8:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. sailings.
We have groups of door to door magazine salespeople every year in Anacortes. If you are thinking of buying something from anyone that is going door to door make sure that you check out their credentials and the company that they work for thoroughly.
The gates are closed until spring on the North Cascades Highway. Nearly two feet of new snow and several snowslides, coupled with a weather forecast calling for more snow through the Thanksgiving weekend, prompted the Washington State Department of Transportation to permanently close the cross-state highway.
