Articles from the November 21, 2018 edition
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Thank you for the great soccer season!
The La Conner Youth Soccer Association has wrapped up another soccer season. We would like to thank our volunteer coaches who gave of their time and energy. Thank you Jason Burks, Travis and Ashley Alvord, Char Burks, Kristin and Jason Huizenga,...
Smelt or not, 2019 festival a go
Rumors are suggesting that the La Conner Rotary Club’s Annual Smelt Derby Family Festival will not return in 2019. We beg to differ! The rumors apparently stem from the serious decline in smelt runs over the years, but we’re still going to have a f...
By New lawmaker runs hard after winning race
Running three miles a day gave Debra Lekanoff the stamina to enter a high-energy state legislative race, one that saw her campaign ring nearly 20,000 doorbells and make about half that many phone contacts. Now she’s ready to hit the ground running i...
Beating cancer together
To my dear friends of La Conner: It is fitting that I ended my seven-month odyssey of chemotherapy and radiation a few days ago, just as the season of Thanksgiving is beginning. As you can imagine, my gratitude list is long. Because when I had to fac...
Hit and run ends in crash at roundabout
A bad decision, to hit and run from a motor vehicle accident on Highway 20 north of La Conner Monday afternoon, started a high-speed chase for two Highway State Patrol SUVs. At 3:25 p.m. a Skagit Coun...
Chained turkeys still escape enforcement
hanksgiving is a notoriously bad day for turkeys. But not so long ago La Conner was a year-round refuge for the wild birds, a period memorialized by local artists in collage prints and sculptures...
Council weighs funding ring dike
The “flood/dike update,” a recurring item of unfinished business at La Conner Town Council meetings, became the elephant in the room at Council’s Nov. 13 meeting. Council member Jacques Brunisholz repeated his concern that the Town is not prote...
Seven Lady Braves net All-League honors
It was no accident the La Conner High volleyball team went undefeated in NW2B play en route to the fourth State championship in program history. Consider that seven La Conner players were All-League...
Small kids make large food donation
The K-kids of La Conner Elementary School spearheaded a food drive through October and part of November. They labeled and placed boxes at every classroom door, counted the amount of food brought in...
La Conner students tackle chess
Fifty student chess players from nine Skagit and Whatcom County schools, including two elementary schools and seven high schools, competed in the first rated tournament event of the 2018-2019 school y...
JAMES L. LAM
James L. Lam died on November 9, 2018 in Skagit Valley Hospital. He was born on April 10, 1942 in Oak Harbor to John Lam and Velma Alice Balda. He grew up on Whidbey Island, playing with his brother John and his sister Sue, multitudes of cousins,... Full story
Expanding the reach of your community newspaper
Someone called the office Friday asking if anyone was reporting on a Mastiff dog running loose. No, we weren’t aware. Did the caller want to place a classified? That’s typical at your local newspaper. Covering big dogs running loose, offering cla...
