A state agency will hold a workshop here to solicit public input and support for a proposed National Maritime Heritage Area, the first heritage area to be focused on maritime heritage and the first on the West coast.
Kindergartners and moms learn about beach critters at low tide at Sunset Beach in Washington Park. About 95 kids were hosted by WSU Skagit Beach Watchers on Thursday.
Plans to build a Marine Skills Center in Anacortes are advancing and the City Planning Commission is set to review a request for a Conditional Use Permit.
It took a quick City Council vote recently to more than double the number of local buildings on the Anacortes Historic Preservation Register.
An Anacortes police officer caught a man driving 75 miles an hour on T Ave., which is only a dozen blocks long, last Thursday, May 21.
The School Board Thursday night okayed cutting another 20 employees. The latest round of cuts are so-called ‘classified’ staffers who are not teachers or administrators.
The Anacortes Schools Foundation presented more than 40 scholarships valued at more than $52,000 during a ceremony Wednesday night.
Filing forms are now available for offices up for election this year,
including those of the Mayor, 4 City Council members, all of whom say
they will seek re-election.
The city will close the main entrance to the city, where highway 20 meets Commercial Ave., for a month this summer to construct a roundabout.
Police were called to break up a fight between two groups of women outside a bar on Highway 20 on May 9.
