The La Conner Town Council covered a lot of ground verbally at its Oct. 12 meeting but no items on their agenda required a vote. Thirty-four of the 74 page council packet laid out the 2022 town budget, which Mayor Ramon Hayes had sent council the day...

Linda Clark presented an incomplete narrative of her advocating for and intervening “on behalf of two dogs in town” in 2014 in her guest column “Why I challenged the sale of Hedlin Field” in the Oct. 13 Weekly News. Skagit County Superior Court,...

Finally! Construction is set for five homes along the northern edge of Channel Cove, the Home Trust of Skagit development on Park Street near Caledonia Street and Maple Avenue in La Conner. Executive Director Jodi Monroe says construction will start...

We talk about community and call fellow county residents Skagitonians, a unique name marking our territory, the place we call home. We think of ourselves as neighbors finding common cause in this place where we all live, even though from Anacortes...

I remember sitting at my desk in fourth grade. It was a sunny day and out the window I could see some hills of Palouse farmland. Our teacher was covering the westward expansion of Europeans. I found myself wondering what happened to the Indigenous...

The Biden administration will reopen border entry in November to international travelers who are fully vaccinated, the Associated Press reported Oct. 12. The specific date was not stated. On Oct. 13 Gov. Jay Inslee released a statement saying,...

Building a new recreation and leisure activity model here continues to be a work in progress. Town officials are stressing the progress part. A first draft of an updated Parks Element to be included in La Conner’s Comprehensive Plan has been complete...

The La Conner High School volleyball team swept three matches last week, two of them in conference play. The team, the two-time defending state 2B champion, followed up on its superb performance at a major non-league tournament in Olympia. It placed...

Mandatory mask-wearing has been a bone of contention for some, going back 18 months since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. But it won’t be an issue in La Conner the afternoon of Oct. 29. That’s when mask-wearing in observance of Halloween is alw...

After a wave of good-sized public events actually took place in July and August, many venues and civic groups are once again scrubbing face-to-face events from their calendars. The Skagit County Fairgrounds was able to hold its annual fair and house...

COVID-19 milestones, including grave markers, were passed in Skagit County in the last three weeks. September ended with 100 people in Skagit County hospitals from the coronavirus that month. Skagit Public Health reported that Oct. 9 the “county s...

Monday, October 11 11:34 a.m.: “Only” window gone – Caller reported his vehicle’s passenger side window had been broken out, nothing taken. Park St., La Conner. Wednesday, October 13 12:12 p.m.: In broad daylight – Caller reported their 2...