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Anna Fleischmann Jennings Lloyd Michael Jennings Anna Fleischmann Jennings, 97, died peacefully on June 8, 2023, in Mount Vernon, Washington. Her husband Lloyd Michael Jennings, 86, died peacefully at home on November 28, 2021. There will be a Memorial Mass to honor the both of them at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, August 1, 2023, at Immaculate Conception Church, 400 N. 15th St., Mount Vernon, followed by a reception at 3:00 p.m. at the McLean Road Fire Department, 15452 Beaver Marsh Road, Mount Vernon....
Next Monday, July 31, the La Conner school board will approve the school district's 2023-2024 budget. The vote will almost certainly be unanimous but it will not be an easy decision. Board members and staff have known about and been grappling with cutting millions of dollars and reducing teaching, support and administrative staff.. The ongoing decline in student enrollment and the district’s despair at the low number of families with school-age children has been editorialized here before. The difficulty of little available and increasingly e...
I just turned 77 years old, and as I write this, I feel older and wiser. Well, wiser in some ways as we can always learn from our own experiences, but also facing the challenges of short-term memory loss. As the son of Holocaust survivors, I thank God for every moment I have on this planet and when I sit in my rooftop hot tub and look out at the vast Universe, I thank God that humans are an incredible and extremely rare species. I was very close to Father William Treacy and he gave me a column t...
I read your editorial “La Conner needs to plan for more than just floods,” (Weekly News July 12) with great interest, and your words raised my eyebrows more than once. You see, you made a blanket statement, “No one in La Conner, elected officials, town staff, activists, or this paper, saw, much less grasped the opportunity and possibilities for working family housing when Dave Hedlin offered to sell his family’s Maple Avenue property in 2020.” Now, I think of myself as an activist, and I did see an alternative plan, even went out of my way to...
New solar and wind electric generators are being installed at increasing rates because their costs are declining and utilities are getting better at integrating intermittent generation into their grids. New renewable generation plants are more economical than new coal or natural gas plants. Renewable generators are, therefore, displacing fossil or nuclear fueled plants when the old plants are retired. However, generation from solar and wind sources doesn’t necessarily happen at the exact same t...
La Conner School District No. 311 NOTICE OF MEETING TO ADOPT 2023-24 BUDGET AND CONDUCT PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to RCW 28A.505.050 and RCW 28A.505.060, that the Board of Directors of La Conner School District No. 311, Skagit County, Washington will hold a regular meeting on July 31, 2023 commencing at 9:15 a.m. in the District Office Board Room, located at 305 North Sixth St, La Conner, Washington or via remote tele- and video-conference. The meeting is called for the purpose of fixing and adopting the budget of the Dist...
