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The third time was not the charm last week for a 51-year-old Anacortes man arrested for speeding, driving with a suspended license and without insurance. 

One inter-island ferry rider told the state ferries director "Can you find another duck to pluck?" during a  public hearing for islanders on WSF long-range plans for the ferry system.

Anacortes police are trying to identify this man, who was caught in surveillance photos this week shortly before he pulled what police called “a classic scam” on a local retailer.

The editors of Wild Beauty have selected more than 130 images by some three dozen photographers to chronicle the history of photography in the Columbia River Gorge.

That traffic light at 17th St. and Q Ave. has been fixed. It had been blinking since it was damaged during a winter storm last month.

State Representative Jeff Morris questions the consistency of a policy that includes $11.7 million for the Enhanced Driver License (EDL) program, while cancelling the primary maritime route between Washington and Canada.

Anacortes spoke with a near-unanimous voice in rejecting the ferry system’s Plan B to drastically cut ferry service. Ferries director David Moseley listened to Save Our Ferry chair Duane Clark tell him “Plan B doesn’t belong on the table."

Anonymous donors have made it possible for the Anacortes library to establish a new Marine Collection consisting of nearly 300 boating books, marine charts and DVDs.

There has long been a need for an adult day care center in Anacortes and now it looks like one will open this Spring.

Police were called after a customer at Jack in the Box on Commercial Ave. got upset because the restaurant wouldn’t give the customer free meals after complaining that orders on previous days weren’t filled correctly.