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Anacortes snatched their first win of the season by edging out Sedro-Woolley 43-39 in a non-league game at Williams Gym Friday night. Read more on KWLE's Bryant Johnson's blog.

The Men Who Stare at Goats, which gets 3 1/2 stars from Roger Ebert, headlines this weekend's new films here. Another winner this weekend: The Princess & the Frog, a Disney hand-drawn animated film. The Blind Side is a holdover.

Anacortes Police arrested a man here who was wanted in Mesa, Arizona for child molestation. He was discovered after an employee discovered multiple ID cards in the wallet he left in his pants at a local dry cleaner.

Anacortes schools could lose as much as $1 million dollars under the state budget presented by Governor Gregoire this week. And, that prospect got the School Board discussing just what to do.

Fundraising for repairing the Tommy Thompson Trail trestle damaged by fire took a major step forward with new pledges totalling $50,000 from the Samish Indian Nation and the Puget Sound Energy Foundation.

A proposal to give a limited tax break for new residential construction in the downtown area drew mixed reviews and words of caution at Monday night's City Council meeting.

“What did they just do?” was a question from an audience member after the City Council Monday night okayed changes to the city’s Comprehensive Plan and Development Regs. 

Jewelry worth $15,000 was reported stolen from an Anacortes home and a fire hydrant was vandalized, causing a geyser on N Ave. Those are just two of the cases the Anacortes Police Department worked on this week.

Anacortes Police have released this sketch of a man they say used a handgun to hold up Steinman's Grocery on 12th St. on Saturday afternoon.

Unusually cold weather is upon us and the city has started spraying anti-icing material on some hilly streets around town. Meanwhile, the Port of Anacortes showed off its brand new snowplow during the Christmas parade Saturday.