Articles from the May 16, 2018 edition
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Council will vote on plastic bag ban in June
Plastics dominated the Town Council’s May 8 session. The Council signaled its willingness to ban disposable plastic bags handed out at retail stores. Carol Sullivan of Mount Vernon, the “BAG Lady with Skagit BAG BANd Wagon,” made a lively, lengt...
Fishing for Sockeye not equal
To the editor: Sockeye season to open June 15 for a month is good news for local hook and line fishermen. I understand why the Fish Department has opted to close the river during the days the Indians are netting to keep peace. What is concerning to...
Librarian appreciated
Fellow La Connerans, Please join me in wishing a sincere farewell to Jessica Armey, our former La Conner Regional Public Libraries children’s librarian. She was laid off as of Friday the 11th of May and with the public school year ending soon, the a...
Join cohousing community
Letter to the Editor Thank you for your May 2nd article about our forming cohousing community in the Skagit Valley. We are very excited about this concept. In our mobile and tech-oriented society, many people feel isolated both by the many tech...
Musings - on the editor's mind
Walking up Valentine Road past Pleasant Ridge cemetery in the evening last week offered a great view of Venus to the northwest. Always the brightest planet, it is particularly distinct in the clear, blue black May sky. Heading south around the...
Eating out Thursday helps others eat, too
Thursday, the 17th, you can make your mouth happy, your spouse or partner happy, the owners of one of five of your favorite La Conner restaurants and chefs happy and in the process do a fleeting good deed for poor people. See the ad on this...
JEANNE (ALAWAYS) JOHNSON
Longtime La Conner resident Jeanne (Alaways) Johnson passed away on May 2, 2018. Jeanne was born in Anacortes, WA July 21, 1924. She was the oldest of six children and grew up in Port Angeles and Clear Lake working in the family shingle mill. After...
Sharpe's Corner hub of major road work
The drive between La Conner and Whidbey Island has become longer. Not in terms of distance, but time. Traffic delays in the Sharpe’s Corner area northwest of La Conner have been the norm recently d...
Looking back and ahead to La Conner's Daffodil Festivals, 2018 and 2019
AND THE WINNER IS – Mara Leite, of Seattle, won the La Conner Chamber of Commerce’s annual daffodil photo contest. Her “Golden Hour” will be on the official 2019 Daffodil Festival poster. Leite...
Guitar Festival rocks La Conner
The luthiers came to La Conner last weekend, setting up in Maple Hall for the second annual La Conner Guitar Festival. The bait set by festival organizers Shirley Makela and spouse Brent McElroy...
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...
La Conner High track teams race to District titles
La Conner High thinclads were definitely on the fast track Friday afternoon. The fast track to twin District 1 championships, that is. The Braves and Lady Braves track teams won their respective...
