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  • Town’s restaurants close during record heat

    Ken Stern and Bill Reynolds|Jun 30, 2021

    The weather dealt La Conner another bad hand last weekend, three of a kind of daily highs over 90 degrees Saturday-Monday, recorded at the WSU Extension Research Center on Memorial Highway. These may be record high temperatures for Friday through Tuesday in the region. The National Weather Service issued a “Long-Duration, Record-Breaking Heat Event” from its Seattle office June 23 for Friday through Monday and then Monday night extended it until 11 p.m. Tuesday. Tuesday’s forecast at the Burlington airport was sunny, with a high near 89 degre...

  • Local restaurants serving hope in takeout orders

    Ken Stern and Bill Reynolds|Mar 18, 2020

    “We are nervous. But we are going to go out swinging!!” Seeds owner Kjendal Hicks’ reply to a Monday email surveying local restaurants was the feistiest. She also shared the difficulty decision of laying off most of her staff. For Cristal Perkins and Belen Arias, co-owners with their mom of Santo Coyote Mexican Kitchen, laying off half their staff Monday was the rough start to their day. Ted Furst, majority owner of Nell Thorn wrote that “the entire hourly staff is laid off,” on “standby” in Employment Security Department terminology....

  • COVID-19 case in La Conner

    Ken Stern and Bill Reynolds|Mar 18, 2020

    A person who has tested positive for COVID-19 is at home in self-isolation in greater La Conner and taking a 14 day quarantine, as are those exposed to the sick person, reliable sources have told the Weekly News. But Skagit County Public Health Director Jennifer Johnson told the Weekly News that she can’t confirm whether a La Conner area resident has received a diagnosis for COVID-19. “There is information that isn’t made public, even to me,” she said Tuesday afternoon. “So I am not aware if there is a confirmed diagnosis.” Johnson advised the...