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When an Anacortes police officer stopped a a vehicle caught traveling 78 miles per hour on Oakes Ave. last week, the driver told the officer “fast is fun.”

Two anxious local runners were the first to cross the newly-restored trestle across Fidalgo Bay when the city re-opened it Friday morning. Cheri Austin and Tawni Wesset, who said they didn't mind the rain, were at the locked gate before city officials arrived to open the trestle.

The Anacortes High School FIRST Robotics team shows how their robot can 'kick' a soccer ball during a demonstration Thursday for the School Board. Student School Board member Dustin Calvert (left) led an explanation on how the robot works.

The Tommy Thompson Parkway trestle across Fidalgo Bay, which was damaged by a fire last October is set to open Friday morning. City Parks Director Gary Robinson says the city will open the trestle at 11am Friday. 

A portion of the Community Garden at 29th Street now is more accessible to seniors and individuals with physical limitation. Thanks to donations of $1,185 and hours of volunteer labor, five raised-bed planting boxes are now available.

With about 20 feet of planking to be put down and some fencing yet to go up, city Parks Director Gary Robinson is hopeful that the newly renovated trestle across Fidalgo Bay could be open this weekend.

The City Council will take public testimony early next month on new rules to allow hens, but not roosters, in backyards. The city Planning Commission gave its okay in April.

Three GPS units were stolen from autos in Anacortes in one day, last Tuesday. All were taken from parked vehicles after someone smashed windows with a rock or concrete block.

Passengers on inter-island ferry routes may find delays starting Monday because the ferry system is pulling one inter-island ferry to participate in an exercise. The reduction in inter-island capacity will last from Monday, May 24, through Memorial Day and will involve 6 ferry moves, in total.

Fidalgo Island Packing Company and Alaska Packing Company, pictured here, built canneries in 1894 and 1895, respectively, at Ship Harbor, now the site of the Washington State Ferries terminal.