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.
Hundreds of people, many of them young kids, lined Commercial Ave. on Saturday to see Santa and this year they got to see him 3 times. Or was it 3 santas they saw? Anyway, this santa was early in the parade.
John Cusack plays a sci-fi writer who finds his favorite lake dried up with Morgan Lily as his daughter in 2012, the disaster movie to end all disaster movies, which is showing here this weekend. Also showing: The Blind Side, The New Moon and Old Dogs.
The School Board Thursday afternoon decided to ask the voters to approve a levy in an election set for February 9. The levy amounts to a 4-year continuation of the current levy of $6.82 million per year.
The annual Celebration of Trees, a project of the Island Hospital Foundation, is back this Friday and Saturday. Local businesses, organizations and individuals sponsor and decorate Christmas trees, which are then donated to the foundation for sale Saturday night.
A Thanksgiving eve fight over eating Thanksgiving food ended with one person in jail.
The School Board is prepared to vote this week to ask the public to okay a new four-year $27-million levy to continue operations and maintenance. The Board has set a meeting for Wednesday afternoon to vote on the levy proposal.
A local woman recognized an attempted scam when she received a phone call and another local woman reported that her ex-boyfriend broke up her apartment with a baseball bat.
One turkey and two decent films for the Thanksgiving weekend here. There are good movies in theaters this weekend, but Old Dogs definitely isn’t one of them.
