Articles from the September 15, 2021 edition
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Council started 2022 budget discussion early Tuesday
La Conner Town Council members did double duty Tuesday, starting at 5 p.m. with a special meeting to discuss the public works and wastewater treatment plant sections of the 2022 budget. Council was sent a 16 page special meeting packet Friday, Sept....
FD 13 approves staff vaccine mandate policy
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a year-long decline in emergency service calls for Skagit County Fire District 13 near La Conner. Those call numbers have finally begun to rebound, outpacing 2020 levels, and now fire district personnel themselves are to...
La Conner alum leading in locating boarding school burial sites
As a La Conner High student in the late 1990s, she was shy and introspective, a teen apt to shun the limelight save once when called upon to sing a solo in a campus stage play. These days, Kisha...
Paying the price of building the future
Last night La Conner’s town council met an hour early to discuss the town’s 2022 budget, which they will pass in December. They started with the big-ticket items: the sewer system and wastewater treatment plant and the parks, facilities, str...
Carlson for council
We are writing in support of Ivan Carlson for Town Council, Position 2. Ivan lives a few doors down from us. In the Sept. 1 issue of this paper, it was mentioned that Ivan advocated for better signage on Maple Street at the Aug. 24 town council...
Letter condemns without compassion
Ken, I want you to know I completely support your editorials and articles and I was appalled at the content of Mr. Hageman’s letter. He succeeded in demonstrating the epitome of what the ultra-conservative represent. I did not see any reference to w...
Learn facts and history
In last week’s La Conner Weekly News Randy Hageman mocked the qualifications and political positions of U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Mr. Hageman also belittled her work as a bartender, as if working class folks are unworthy to s...
Embracing our families here and in Afghanistan
The dictionary, in its definitions of family, includes “all those descended from a common ancestor.” During my years as a priest I have become acquainted with hundreds and hundreds of families. Many were happy and united. Others were devastated by...
Jacques, thanks for council service
Thank you, Jacques. The giving of all this time to your community is more than commendable. Towns of any size are not easy to manage. Council members are challenged every day to do their due diligence and make the best decisions they can. Some are...
Shelter Bay car prowls investigated
It’s often said that crime doesn’t take a holiday. That was certainly the case locally as Swinomish Tribal Police received reports of 10 vehicle prowls in Shelter Bay over the Labor Day weekend. “From reviewing the reports,” Swinomish Police Chief E...
La Conner volleyball team debuts with two big wins
Idled by the COVID-19 pandemic a year ago, the two-time defending state 2B champion La Conner High School volleyball team couldn’t wait to get back in the gym this fall. And when that time came last week, the Lady Braves got back to business by m...
Braves blanked by Sultan in non-league grid opener
The Sultan Turks shut out La Conner 21-0 in non-league football action at Whittaker Field Friday night. But despite the zero on the scoreboard, first-year Braves head coach Charlie Edwards said all...
Skagit County Historical Museum, staff recognized
Though the Skagit County Historical Museum in La Conner is focused on the past, it finds itself very much in the public eye these days as well. That’s because the local museum garnered a major s...
Skagit County Police Blotter
Monday, September 6 10:52 a.m.: In town prowl – Cold vehicle prowl. Entry was made by breaking a window. Morris St., La Conner. 11:45 a.m.: Towed, not stolen – Caller reported their rental car that had broken down at the post office had b...
Gluten-Free Apple Cranberry Dessert
It may be work, but the rewarding part of this recipe is you can use small apples or apples you have cut the worm holes out. You can use apples that may otherwise go to waste. I cut open a box of...
