The City Council has okayed partial funding of the Anacortes Futures Project, approving just one-half of the $25,000 requested of it by a committee steering the project, aimed at fashioning a vision of Anacortes in the future.
The School Board has already started pondering next year’s school budget and planning to cut as much as one million dollars from the current $26.4 million spending plan.
Car prowls continued last week at Heart Lake. Approximately $1,500 worth of compact discs, a GPS unit valued at $300, and 90 prescription pills valued at $450 were reported stolen from a vehicle parked at the lake on Sunday, Mar. 7.
Former long-time Anacortes resident Lois Auchterlonie, pictured here, was one of the former Women Airforce Service Pilots honored with a Congressional Gold Medal for their WWII WASP service in a ceremony in Washington, DC.
Anacortes Police have arrested 3 people and are looking for 2 others in connection with the beating of an 32-year-old Anacortees man who told Police he was beaten and robbed at his home on 18th St.
Traffic along Sixth Ave. east of the Guemes Ferry Landing will be re-routed for the next 2 months while the city re-constructs Sixth from the ferry landing east to K Ave. That portion of Sixth will be closed starting Tuesday, Mar. 9.
Anacortes Police worked on a number of drunken driving cases last week, but the most interesting one involved a driver who drove through the middle of the roundabout at the Highway 20 intersection with Commercial Ave. Read on...
A team of Anacortes High School students picked up two awards at a recent video competition in Bellingham. The AHS students’ production, To Die Alone, won the Judges’ third place award and the Audience Choice second place award at the Guerilla Film Project.
Police Chief Bonnie Bowers said Thursday that police have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of scamming local residents for the last few weeks. The police issued a warning about the man earlier this week.
The Anacortes Police are looking for a 20 year old man they call a scam artist who, they say, has been taking advantage of the good graces and compassion of Anacortes residents in the past few weeks.
