Articles from the July 17, 2019 edition
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Can you buy in Channel Cove?
Home Trust of Skagit Director Jodi Monroe and Melissa Luke, executive assistant, are spreading the word that homeowners are needed for the five homes that will be built in their Channel Cove development near Caledonia Street and Maple Avenue. They me...
Some positive comments on the Seattle Cascade Drum and Bugle Corps
Our house fronts the school playfields, so there are few people in town more directly affected by the Corps than we are. Although we understand that the length and intensity of the Corps practices can be annoying to some people, we found the...
More thanks for Nell Thorn in our lives and in our town
Susan and Casey, Thank you for supporting our Wednesday night “book club” at Nell Thorn’s these past several years. We are grateful for the many magical birthday celebrations we had at the communal table you religiously reserved for us. You have alwa...
Warning: rifle shots in town
Dear neighbors on Rainier and Talbott streets, On Saturday, July 13 at 4:30 p.m., I witnessed the tenant at 525 Rainier shoot a rifle at my cat. He was on his back porch and shooting toward his back fence. There were no less than 5 small children...
So long, it's been good to know you
Dear La Conner: Thank you, Thank you, Thank you... It has been two weeks since Nell Thorn landed in the skilled hands of her new ownership, and there are already murmurings of deliciousness... Two years ago we realized that we needed to offer the...
An open letter to the La Conner community
On June 7, the school board received a vote of no confidence against Superintendent Meissner from our unions. We met with union leadership to better understand their concerns; we value their perspectives and have listened deeply. The board has also...
School Board still studying superintendent raise
The La Conner School District Board of Directors met Monday for their usual bi-weekly study session, but only the schedule was normal. The meeting was held in the first floor board room instead of the District’s second floor meeting room. Director S...
La Conner High hoops coach stands tall at Highland Games
Danny Hagen stays in shape the old-fashioned way. The 6’-6”, 255-pound La Conner High assistant basketball coach is no stranger to the gym, but his workouts this time of year are done without ben...
Skagit City School supporters answer bell again
It was as much a homecoming as a picnic for those who gathered at the historic Skagit City School Sunday afternoon. Among the large group on hand was a number of Skagit City Community Club alumni,...
Kitty Pippen remembered at quilt museum
Kitty Pippen once said she was first drawn to textile arts as a girl in China, watching the local women mend and design their clothes. She lived a life as a creative artists, but didn’t begin her quilting career in Japanese fabrics until the age o...
New investors come to Tulip Town
A 36-year tradition concluded in late June when Tulip Town on Bradshaw Road in Greater LaConner was purchased by Spinach Bus Ventures. Since founders Tom and Jeannette DeGoede opened Tulip Town 1983,...
Musings - on the editor's mind
If you were alive then, reflect back on July 20, 1969. Were you watching NASA’s, and our, moon landing? I was 14. My siblings and I were on the porch, our house’s TV room. My very smart older sister wanted to be an astronaut – while still in hi...
From the editor - Grounding the Growlers
Who are the patriots and the heroes: the guys with guns and blue uniforms, more so in Washington, D.C. than Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, or Washington state’s skinny attorney general and the Citizens of Ebey Reserve who got Bob Ferguson’s att...
Lawsuits may ground Growlers
Two lawsuits were filed July 9 against the U.S. Navy’s expansion of Growler jet operations at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. Attorney General Bob Ferguson, for the state of Washington, asserts a failed environmental review process for the e...
