The City has announced the winners of the annual recycle poster contest. Mayor Dean Maxwell presented each winner with a plaque at this week's City Council meeting.

Four Northwest authors remain on this week's Northwest Bestsellers list. J.A. Jance's Justice Denied is on the list as a mass market paperback. Also, back this week are: The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein; The Other by David Guterson; and, Snuff, by Chuck Palahniuk.

A man wanted in the shooting of two dogs at Heart Lake has been arrested in Pierce County.

After a series of complaints, the City Council has moved to stop people from living in their cars and RVs on city streets.

The City Council has deferred a request to write a local church that plans to allow T-Mobile to build a cell phone tower on church property.

Issues of traffic, the cost of gas and questions about a future new bridge from Whidbey Island to the mainland are up for discussion at a town hall-style meeting of the South Fidalgo Community Council, set for this Wednesday.

What I consider to be one of J.A. Jance's best books in recent years is not out in paperback. The murder of an ex-drug dealer ex-con—gunned down on his mother's Seattle doorstep—seems just another turf war fatality. But, Jance ties it in to a chain of sexual abuse cases in a story with twists and turns involving the familiar J.P. Beaumont. The book is priced at just $10.

A weekly roundup prepared by the Anacortes Police Department.