Articles from the April 25, 2018 edition
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Local students foot soldiers in war on gun violence
La Conner students showed they can walk their talk on Friday. The local teens, walking in shifts, kept pace with a nationwide student movement that served as a vigil for those killed in school...
Tulip season shining bright
WHY WE LIVE HERE – It rained on April 10, but by 7 p.m. at Roozengaarde it was as pretty as a picture. Farmer Dave Hedlin says he is at least two weeks behind in getting his chard, kale and...
Poetry changes lives in La Conner's schools
Poets have been frequent faces in the LaConner schools during the 2017-2018 school year thanks to the school district’s partnership with the Skagit River Poetry Foundation. Poets are in classrooms during one-week residencies in all three district s...
End of era: Valandani moves on from MoNA
Eight years of MoNA’s Education Program’s accomplishments, under the leadership of Jasmine Valandani, were celebrated with Mimosas and cake at the Museum of Northwest Art April 16th with a reception f...
ZERMA LOUISE PIERSON April 15, 1928 - April 16, 2018
Zerma Louise Pierson was born April 15, 1928 in Fayette County, Kentucky to Mark Mynear and Ella Mae Ivy (Mynear). She passed away on April 16, 2018 at Skagit Valley Hospital. Zerma had a busy childhood, helping care for six other siblings and other... Full story
Poetry month morphs into Poetry Festival
National Poetry month ends Monday. In La Conner, lucky us: consider it spring training, the warm up for the Skagit River Poetry Festival arriving in three weeks, starting May 17. Full disclosure and transparency: I am on this Poetry Foundation’s b...
Musings -- on the editor's mind
I was 20 in April 1975, in San Francisco working as a houseman in a residential hotel for old people. If I read the news, it was one of the San Francisco dailies. The last American helicopter left Saigon April 30, 1975 as the city fell to the North...
The Varied Carols of Poetry Month
Poetry is a vital part of many communities in our state, and the art draws diverse audiences to the power of words, the power of expression and the power of introspection. I am confident in this claim because I attended or participated in over hundre...
"!@$*%!@" Or "Is there a better way to say that?"
Are you feeling the impact of the increasing polarization and incivility in our country? Has it influenced relationships with friends, family or co-workers here in our Valley? I know that my fellow Skagitonians are people who would absolutely come...
U.S. Supreme Court hears tribal fishing rights case
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community staff were at the U.S. Supreme Court April 18 to hear oral arguments that will decide whether the state of Washington’s treaty obligations require removing state-owned barrier culverts to preserve fish runs and h...
