Articles from the October 17, 2018 edition
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Dave Hedlin manages loan funds as well as crops
La Conner farmer Dave Hedlin drives a pickup truck, a tractor, and a variety of farm equipment. The much less visible seat he sits in is as a board member of Northwest Farm Credit Services, a...
Candidates forum in Maple Hall Thursday
Oct. 18 7 to 9 p.m. Candidates for the seven District 1 Freeholders positions for developing a Skagit County Charter have been invited to a forum at Maple Hall this Thursday, Oct. 18 to present their ideas to greater La Conner voters. There are 28...
Brew on the Slough offers Northwest flavor
“It is a growing process. You can’t just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.” – Isaac Hanson. This weekend, kick back and sample the different flavors of 12 regional craft breweries, while enjoying the perfe...
Family Ties: All can relate to Skagit historical museum exhibit
The Skagit County Historical Museum in La Conner has always been a family friendly place. And never more so than in its Golden Anniversary year. A new museum exhibit highlights the many contributions to Skagit history made by the Peth and Guillen fam...
Water main replacement project started
The water main replacement project from Young Road to Mclean Road on the west side of La Conner Whitney Road started Monday. It is scheduled to be completed by Dec. 11. Work hours are 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Monday-Thursday. This section of La Conner...
STEVEN MARK PAULSON
Steven was born in Mount Vernon, Washington to A. Vernon “Pogey” Paulson and Annie E. (Kane) Paulson on December 13, 1945 and passed away on October 4, 2018 at Providence Hospital in Everett, Washington. He attended school in La Conner, Was... Full story
Vote 'D' for the future
Trump? Recently the Skagit Valley Herald had two letters to the editor urging people to vote Republican. The writers have that right, but I assume that they are over 50, have no spouse, no children, and no grandchildren. Why assume that? As...
Vote 'No' on charter
Dear Editor I’d like to share with my fellow citizens a slightly different perspective on the proposed Skagit charter initiative. Up to last week, I supported the charter measure, for reasons eloquently stated by other readers in this space. After l...
Freeholder candidates forum is also citizens' forum
What if they gave a candidates forum and nobody came? Or if too few came and Maple Hall echoed with the sounds of silence? The election of Freeholders is up to you. Voting is the easy part, a mere checking of names, filling in of boxes. The hard part...
You are the color of this country
The election has passed. More than excited, partisan or a color, I am troubled. This is a critically important election and certainly a referendum on President Trump and the Republican Party. But whether the results are decisive for one party,...
Taste of Skagit in La Conner schools: the proof is in the eating
EATING LOCAL: TEACHING BY EXAMPLE – It doesn’t get any more basic than this: students, teachers and a sign in the school cafeteria celebrating the bountiful harvest from Skagit Valley fields i...
Author Sy Montgomery reveals her soul as well as octopuses'
Not only do octopuses have souls, author Sy Montgomery told her Maple Hall audience of 120 October 8, but humanity’s successful future lies in realizing “how great the world is and how lucky we are to...
Vote 'No' on I-1639: It's complex and restrictive
I would ask our esteemed editor a couple of questions on I-1639 that he apparently wants everyone to support passage of. Have you read and fully understand the initiative? It is about 30 pages of often incoherent legalese baloney. I am guessing you...
Charter ballot issue draws large crowd for and against
Outside of law school and political science classrooms, it isn’t often that James Madison and his Federalist No. 51, a detailed essay on governmental checks and balances, is cited as a point of i...
