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A film made by three youths from the Swinomish Reservation will have it’s television premier on PBS Tuesday night. 

The City Council has approved a $197,000 contract to design a roundabout at Commercial Ave. where Highway 20 comes into town.

After some serious debate, the City Council has okayed a plan for a duplex in a neighborhood of mostly single-family homes. 

A Community of Collectors: 75 Anniversary Gifts to the Seattle Art Museum is a new book which celebrates an unprecedented series of gifts to the Seattle Art Museum on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. 

An Anacortes police officer stopped a Mount Vernon man driving with a suspended license twice in one day last week...

It was a sunny Saturday afternoon, but the black smoke trailing over March Point might have left the impression there was a refinery fire, but that's not what was going on.

Anacortes artist Cory Hunter shows off her handmade beaded necklace with a natural sea glass pendant at the Nutcracker Holiday Gift Show at the Depot Arts Center. The show, which runs through Sunday, features many local and northwest arts and crafts. 

A new retail-office complex is planned for Fourth St., across from the Anacortes Cinemas. The plan is to build two buildings on the property adjacent to How It Works. 

The County Commissioners have set a public hearing on the weekday evening Guemes ferry runs for Nov. 25. The county Public Works Department is expected to summarize the two-year extended service trial period at the same meeting.

This week our Northwest Bestsellers list includes only two northwest authors. Ivan Doig's The Eleventh Man and Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain are the only northwest-related books on the list this week.