Articles from the September 3, 2014 edition
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Soccer star kicked cancer's butt
Ashlyn Reinstra was an athlete and busy college student about to celebrate her 19th birthday when the devastating news came: She had a rare and very aggressive form of leukemia. Now back home and...
Tax uncertainty is taxing for everyone
Agencies and taxpayers are nervous over the financial impacts of a federal court ruling that makes most of the properties in Shelter Bay and on Pull & Be Damned Road exempt from property taxes. If the 931 homeowners on leased tribal land decide not t...
MoNA cuts entrance fee, expands outreach
While the Museum of Northwest Art has been a fixture in the local community for more than 30 years, it now aims to enrich its support to more communities and audiences outside the museum. Changes have already happened this year to gear the museum to...
Macabre message
This skeletal fellow and his bone dog draw attention to the speed limit in the Thousand Trails campground off Snee-Oosh Road. – Photo by Don Coyote...
JAMES REID GREER
James “Jim” Reid Greer, Jr., of Shelter Bay, died on Tuesday, August 19 surrounded by his loving family. Jim was born in Los Angeles on October 10, 1938. He reminisced that he had a great chi...
Tasty Tradition
The annual Swinomish Clam Bake at Lone Tree Point last week drew a hungry crowd, as always. Here master shellfish chef and Tribal Senator Chester Cayou, Jr. is shown with a tray full of mussels and...
ELENOR ROSE POWERS
Elenor Rose “Ellie” Powers of Mount Vernon died at age 86 on Sunday, August 17. Ellie was born May 3, 1928, to Edward and Marie Weimer Kainz in Markinch, Saskatchewan, Canada. In the early 1950s, she...
Skagit Co. Sheriff's Office POLICE BLOTTER
Tuesday August 26 12:01 p.m.: Flea torture – A caller thought a dog had been hit by a car onDodge Valley Road east of La Conner. But it turned out the dog was actually suffering form a flea infestation and got a ride to a vet. 5:49 p.m.:...
