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The Police Blotter, Dec. 5, 2009

Dec. 5 2009 11 minutes read

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.

Grocery held up by armed robber

Art Shotwell Dec. 5 2009 1 minute read

2009-1205_robbery.jpgAnacortes 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.

Very cold snap expected for the next few days

Art Shotwell Dec. 5 2009 1 minute read
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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.

Christmas Parade attracts crowd...and Santas

Art Shotwell Dec. 5 2009 1 minute read
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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.

Weekend Movies

Art Shotwell Dec. 4 2009 5 minutes read
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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.

School Board votes for new levy

Art Shotwell Dec. 3 2009 1 minute read

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.

Celebration of Trees Friday & Saturday

Dec. 3 2009 1 minute read

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.

The Police Blotter, Nov. 30, 2009

Nov. 30 2009 3 minutes read

A Thanksgiving eve fight over eating Thanksgiving food ended with one person in jail.

School Board to ask for new levy

Art Shotwell Nov. 28 2009 2 minutes read

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.

The Police Blotter, Nov. 26, 2009

Nov. 26 2009 9 minutes read

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.

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