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Irish poet a twofer: Festival reader and teacher
Irish poet Tony Curtis has a sort of magic. When he walks into a classroom, he enthralls the most skeptical English students with a world where words, music and humor make the most ardent of non-book lovers forget the bell. “I find students the m...
"Resist:" Women's art for our time
What does one do when faced with a myriad of policies antithetical to one’s core values? Natalie Niblack asked that of Skagit Women Print collective and helped to organize a show around the theme, “Resist.” It is at the Perry and Carlson Galle...
Coping in the margins
Four young men file into the classroom of the Skagit County Juvenile Detention center across the way from the county court house in Mount Vernon on a Wednesday after Christmas. Matt Malyon, a...
Seeking redemption through poetry
It's 8:30 a.m. on Saturday at the Monroe Correctional Complex, one of Washington state’s largest prisons. Men in khaki pants and white t-shirts at the front of a large visiting space with white walls...
Growing pains for farmers and farm laborers
Skagit is known for its sweet strawberries come June, but there has been nothing sweet about the season this year at the Sakuma Bros. Farm. The largest producer of berries in the valley finds itself...
Newspaper receives open government award
Representatives of the Washington Coalition for Open Government awarded “La Conner Weekly News” editor and publisher Sandy Stokes with a Key Award on Thursday for advancing the cause of open gov...
Farm ordered to house workers' families
In an historic ruling in Skagit County Superior Court, Judge Susan Cook found in favor of unionized farm laborers, ordering Sakuma Bros. Farm, Inc. in west Burlington to allow workers and their...
