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Last spring, Judy Kontos won election to the Shelter Bay Community’s board of directors on a platform of increasing transparency and ushering in reform as part of the nine-member governing panel. This time around, Kontos didn’t fare well when Shelter Bay residents marked their ballots. Kontos was recalled on a 343-149 vote last Wednesday when in-person and mail-in ballots were tallied. Kontos, whose career background is in finance with extensive experience as a mortgage broker, was sanctioned and suspended from the board in February pen...
It was a dark and stormy Sunday night, but Monday at noon the breeze abated and the clouds lifted just before La Conner's school children took to First Street for the annual Halloween Parade. They were safe, for once again La Conner Hook & Ladder – many of them parents of school aged children – blocked First Street to traffic In typical La Conner fashion, it was an all-in, all-ages costume ball, with toddlers and elders alike dressed as scary, strange, other worldly, puffed up and cute. And the...
New Year’s came in with a bang for most people here, with loud fireworks on the west side of the Swinomish Channel signaling the arrival of 2022. For a few hardy others, though, the calendar turned over with a splash. Those brave souls, including seven-year-old Porter Weatherford, literally dove into the new year by taking a dip into frigid Swinomish Channel north of La Conner Marina. Waiting 30 minutes did not make it any warmer. Former Town Councilmember John Leaver and co-organizer Rick D...
New greens at Swinomish Golf Links helped raise much appreciated green for area charities, among them the La Conner Sunrise Food Bank. Golfers taking part in a special free day at the Swinomish Tribal Community-owned course near La Conner last Wednesday chipped in $227 for the local food pantry, which took donations on the par-3, 156-yard fifth hole. Almost $5,600 was raised for area charities, split evenly between $2,800 donated by golfers to the charities positioned at each hole and $2,757...
La Conner students showed they can walk their talk on Friday. The local teens, walking in shifts, kept pace with a nationwide student movement that served as a vigil for those killed in school shootings as well as a plea for more strict gun laws. The key word above being movement. Students here managed to sustain their part of the National School Walkout Protest for more than five hours, repeatedly circling the La Conner campus, though some ventured off at one point to bring the message to Town...
It didn’t rain on La Conner’s parade last Saturday. Instead it rained beforehand and afterward. The US Bank-sponsored Kiwanis Not-So-Impromptu Tulip Parade – which, quite fittingly, started 15 minutes later than scheduled – couldn’t have been better timed. Afternoon clouds had lifted, if ever so briefly, when Grand Marshal John Doyle, in Brad Bradford’s 1930 Model A Ford pickup, started south on First Street, followed by La Conner’s vintage white fire truck, driven by Dave Alvord, wi...
