I was 12 in 1967 and 15 in 1970. I grew up watching the six o’clock news on a black and white TV. My family’s good TV then was a portable black and white, on a wheeled stand. It was in the room over the garage we called the porch: an exterior door le...

While walking along Third Street recently I found myself pining for a weirder, stranger time in La Conner history. This town could use an injection of weird stat, before it succumbs to being a sterile, Norman Rockwell painting come to life as an...

Dear editor Georgia Johnson is a dear friend of mine, and I hate seeing her go through all this pain. When I have spoken to her about the outcome she would like to see, it has always been to tell her story in private to the school board without the...

Lettuce consider this bunch of actions: A simple online search for the “La Conner Food System” results in a variety of sites – some with logistic details that highlight nutrition information, free/reduced lunch ratios, farm partnerships and...

The La Conner School District’s Board of Directors will have Food Services Director Georgia Johnson’s termination on their agenda for the third time in two weeks when it convenes for a special meeting June 4 at 5:30 p.m. The Board did not comply with...

At this time of year, we remember and honor our war dead, especially those who have died in vain on various far flung shores. Our military personnel have been in too many battles in too many places over too many decades of our country’s history. T...