Articles from the May 2, 2018 edition
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Fire District 13 gains funds from Tribe
Fire District 13 commissioners approved an agreement with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community for $250,000 for the district’s 2018 operating budget at their April 26 meeting. The Tribe had approved the request in November. The funds, from the S...
After the tulip festival, off with the heads of the tulips
OVER JUST LIKE THAT – Monday was the last day of April and a busy work day for farm hands topping tulips at a RoozenGaarde field on the east side of Best road between McLean and Young roads....
Road closures continue daily for Snee Oosh Road construction
ONE MORE MONTH – Snee-Oosh will remain closed during the day till May 22 to accommodate sidewalk construction from Front Street to First Street. Concrete curbing will be poured starting May 2....
With key to city, Bartlett unlocks door to future
As a teen, Craig Bartlett helped preserve La Conner’s past with his detailed drawings of local landmarks. Now, four decades and countless critical and commercial successes later, the famed animator i...
RHODA HAZEL CLAASSEN LINDSTROM
Rhoda Hazel Claassen Lindstrom of Shelter Bay died Sunday, April 8th, 2018 at Island Hospital following a battle with heart failure. She was 95. Rhoda was born December 26, 1922, in Akron, Ohio to Arthur and Letha Claassen. In 1942 she married Edwin... Full story
Musings - on the editor's mind
April, weather wise, left the western Skagit Valley as it sometimes does: overcast, cool, rain overnight Sunday and dripping into Monday morning. Monday, was in fact perfectly average: the morning temperature started at 50 degrees F at WSU’s Mount V...
Are we all for bread and roses?
May 1st was May Day, International Workers Day. As with so many things, the United States is virtually alone in not celebrating it officially, nationwide, as a holiday. Did you see those images from around the world on TV, of people marching...
Telling sewage story
This is a story about sewage. It all began in October 2013, when the meter that measures the flow of wastewater from the Tribe began to read below normal. This continued for three years until October 2016, when a new meter was installed, and calibrat...
North Vietnamese army not rag tag
A little musing concerning your most resent musings. Please don’t tell me that my adversary during my two tours in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division was a “rag tag army of peasants wearing funny hats and sandals.” For, you see, in 1967 when I...
Council finally resolves Tribe sewage billing
As in so many Town Council sessions, resident Dan O’Donnell led the way, using his three minutes of public comment time to raise questions on the City of Anacortes’ billing procedures for their fiber optics installations through the City’s water...
Students heart of poetry
That was a lovely article from Steve Dolmatz on poetry in La Conner’s schools last week. The students were and are the heart of this work; it was created for them. Knowing that they are being given an additional way to think about and use words m...
'We are truly here for all children'
My grandfather, a father of four, was a teacher at Mount Vernon High School. Grandpa was able to buy a house and provide for his family on a teacher’s salary not so many years ago. Simply put: teachers today deserve to make a better wage. When my g...
Artists bring color to Poetry Festival
Meet Skagit River Poetry Festival artists Alfred Currie and Anne Schreivogl, who created the Festival poster and cover for this year’s student anthology, respectively. Lifelong artist Alfred C...
Are we all for bread and roses?
May 1st was May Day, International Workers Day. As with so many things, the United States is virtually alone in not celebrating it officially, nationwide, as a holiday. Did you see images from around the world on TV, people marching joyfully in the s...
