A 7-foot section of a 12 inch water main broke late Wednesday night at 12th St. and Commercial Ave., causing a fairly large hole in the street and pumping water and mud onto the streets for a couple blocks around.
Looks like Senator Patty Murray managed to get $3 million in federal transportation money to build a new WSF ferry terminal in Anacortes. The state had asked for $26 million for the Anacortes terminal.
The county has been allocated $750,000 in federal money to build a new ferry terminal for the Guemes Island ferry. But, the state failed to get $26 million to build a new Anacortes ferry terminal.
The Anacortes Futures Project, an effort by the Chamber of Commerce to improve city planning, has received high marks from City Council members.
The city has reopened Heart Lake to swimmers after closing it Friday afternoon because of unusually high fecal coliform counts.
State Senator Kevin Ranker, from San Juan Island, has opened a districtoffice in Anacortes City Hall and has hired a new legislative assistant, Ann Larson.
This photograph was taken at the foot of Commercial Avenue at Ocean Dock, the place where most travelers arrived and departed until autos and roads became more convenient than water travel.
It was a busy week with several goofy cases, including a drunk guy on
bicycle running into telephone pole and a 17-year-old boy who claimed
that a total stranger had just walked up and put 2 cases of beer into
his vehicle.
The City closed Heart Lake to swimmers on Friday afternoon because of an unusually high fecal coliform bacteria count. In fact, Jonn Lunsford, the city’s forest lands manager, said the coliform count was higher than he’s ever seen.
The state Transportation Department says roundabout construction is about half over and it could open two weeks from today. Meanwhile, the Chamber of Commerce is asking locals to try to patronize businesses south of 32nd St.
