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For over 40 years fishery biologists and other scientists have been working in collaborative efforts to improve salmon fisheries in the Skagit River. Since 2003, the Skagit River System Cooperative, a partnership between the Sauk-Suiattle Indian...

Elevated levels of Paralytic Shellfish Toxin (Red Tide) have been found in several recreational harvest locations throughout Skagit County. In response, the Washington State Department of Health closed Fidalgo, Padilla and Samish Bays and Guemes...

Dolores and John retired to Shelter Bay in 1992. She loved gardening and boating and she was a great 1st Mate. John and Dolores were charter members of the Shelter Bay Yacht Club. She loved to travel, and Hawaii and Arizona were a few of her... Full story

I have had the distinct pleasure of meeting and working with Rosemary Kaholokula through our mutual participation in Rotary I initially met Rosemary while searching for a district youth protection officer in my role as the Rotary District 5050 chair...

I would like to send prayers and blessings to our wonderful Mayor, Ramon Hayes and his family and send wishes for a speedy recovery. Love, Jean Wedin...

So, there it goes, the silt we need for building our dike, out to deep water, five million dollars away from where it should have went. Yep, enough money could have been saved, to pay for the water line, but what the heck, it’s only a debt that o...

Sometimes you have to face the truth. Sometimes reality is really real. Sometimes the evidence is indisputable. As Thoreau wrote, “Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.” Sometimes rants and screeds are...

Citizens will have an opportunity to hear the 28 District 1 freeholder candidates at 7 p.m. Oct. 18 at a forum at Maple Hall organized by the La Conner Weekly News. This article finishes the responses candidates made to three questions posed to them...

It’s international Co-op month. Here in the United States and around the world people are recognizing cooperatives as humane economic engines in their communities. Co-ops mean, fundamentally, “I belong.” To their members, co-ops mean “I matter...