Alec Baldwin, Meryl Streep and Steve Martin are featured in It's Complicated, the one new film opening this weekend in Anacortes. Returning are: Avatar, Sherlock Holmes, and Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.
Looks like the roundabout at Commercial Ave. and Highway 20, shown here in a state DOT aerial photo, has been good news, traffic-wise. No accidents since the roundabout opened last summer.
Returning Council members Erica Pickett, Cynthia Richardson, Bill Turner and Brian Geer were sworn in earlier this week following their re-election last November. Mayor Dean Maxwell was also sworn in by City Finance Director Steve Hoglund.
Crews are laying boulders to create a new breakwater just off Seafarers' Memorial Park, near Cap Sante Marina. The work is part of an environmental cleanup undertaken by the Port of Anacortes and the state Department of Ecology.
One of the four ferries operating in the Anacortes-San Juan islands route has been taken out of service for mechanical problems. That reduces capacity on the route.
The state Dept. of Transportation has completed the highway 20 widening project near Quiet Cove, between Sharpes Corner and Deception Pass. The project took nearly 2 years and cost $32.5 million.
Police made several arrests for drunk driving this week, between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Two of the cases involved accidents where a vehicle either flipped over or rolled onto its side.
The Washington State Ferries will operate on a winter schedule beginning Sunday, January 3, reducing the sailings between Anacortes and the San Juan Islands.
This weekend finds the same films that were shown over Christmas weekend, including a 'squeakquel' Chipmunks movie, a rollicking Sherlock Holmes and a visually stunning Avatar.
The Depot Arts Center presents handpointed needlepoint work by Kathryn Molineux during the first Friday Gallery Walk, on New Year's Day, from 6-9 pm.
