Articles from the February 20, 2019 edition
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'Fun'-raiser Friday for parks
Dear Editor, I want to remind your readers of the great opportunity this Friday night at 6 p.m. to support La Conner Parks. There is a “fun” raiser at Hellam’s Vineyard to generate donations toward the construction of a beautiful log pavilion (picn...
License guns, like cars
Wouldn’t you be outraged if the Afghanistan war racked up 14,708 deaths in one year? That is the number of deaths from gun violence in just 2018*. Compare that to 2,372** military deaths in all the 17 years of the Afghanistan war, start to p...
Thanks for supporting levy
On behalf of our students, staff and school board, we thank you, our community, for your incredible and overwhelming support on our 2019 educational programs and operations levy. It is passing with an amazing 70 percent YES vote, and we are so...
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104 year old parties in Shelter Bay
“Happy Birthday” wasn’t the only song sung during Sybil East’s party in Shelter Bay on Saturday. Those gathered in Dallas and Nancy Burlison’s living room heard the guest of honor sing several t...
Locals rally against National Emergency declaration
Some 200 people from La Conner and as far away as Bellingham and Anacortes rallied in Mount Vernon Monday at 5 p.m. “to protest Trump’s declaration of a national disaster at the US-Mexico bor...
Growth potential forecast at Skagit Ag Summit
Farmers and agriculture industry allies heard from Skagit County economic development leaders on the afternoon of the fourth annual Ag Summit Feb. 8, sponsored by WSU Extension at their Mount Vernon...
Town's library legislative lobbying plows ahead
Eight representatives from the town of La Conner, Skagit County, La Conner Regional Library and La Conner Library Foundation spent last Thursday in Olympia at the state Capitol, seeking continued financial support for the new La Conner Library...
Musings - on the editor's mind
My list of grievances against our government is long, built over time, and well thought out. My biggest frustration might surprise folks, given all the illegal as well as unjust wars we have fought and the people wrongly harassed, spied on, murdered...
Banking on the community
Before we had newspapers and journalists, we had poets. When all communities were small and tribal, poets were sometimes leaders and prophets. A prophet is a poet naming out loud the community’s pain. That is what some of the books, psalms and w...
Big 'yes' for La Conner schools
La Conner school district voters overwhelming approved renewing their school levy Feb. 12, one of four levy wins in three Skagit County school districts. The La Conner levy won with 70 percent of the...
