Articles from the December 12, 2018 edition
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Freedom's sound is speaking up
Last week the Anacortes American highlighted the Navy’s decision to end negotiations regarding their planned Growler Jet expansion on Whidbey Island. On Sunday an Everett Herald editorial declared the need for the Navy to return to discussions w...
Jets are "sound of freedom"
I am tired of hearing the recurring complaints re NASWI (Naval Air Station Whidbey Island) “jet noise” from a small but highly vocal band of NIMBYs, and their unrealistic “solutions” to a “problem” that does not exist. Unless they were here prior...
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Hands across the water and other divides
Who remembers this picture? October 1983. The cold war was churning with Ronald Reagan at the helm, but Mikhail Gorbachev was not yet on the scene. I had returned from the Peace Corps a decade...
Musings - on the editor's mind
In the old days I would have gotten telephone calls, but in our modern age I received texts that Dixie Otis had passed. The news is everything that happens, isn’t it? Beginnings, endings, life, death, the pulse of the community, the good, the bad, th...
Growing in our community together
Dear valued longtime readers and new subscribers: Thank you for wanting to have the La Conner Weekly News come to your home. Thank you for supporting this newspaper, your community newspaper. Subscribers, new and old, thank you. The last two weeks ha...
Kevin Paul carving out new niche in book project
The next chapter in Swinomish carver Kevin Paul’s often cutting-edge career will be written by himself. And it’s quite a story to tell. Paul, whose carving has been featured on the Discovery Cha...
Local lawman leaving to head County probe unit
There was a time when Tobin Meyer didn’t have a clue what the future held. But because of his ability to recognize and sift through clues, Meyer has a clear idea now of the direction his career in l...
Larsen talks news in the making
In a brief interview while filling food boxes at the La Conner Sunrise Food Bank Dec. 3, U.S. Rep Rick Larsen (D, Everett) made these points: On the Navy’s expanding Growler flights: The Navy’s res...
Time management: Museum capsule filled with '60s gems
There was mystery in history here Thursday night. A mystery years in the making, in fact, one in which secrets from the past were unlocked as part of an ongoing Golden Anniversary celebration at the...
Boats and people crowd Swinomish Channel for annual lighted boat parade
BEST LIGHTED BOAT PARADE, EVER – Reports Mike Sisk, Swinomish Yacht Club commodore: “We had 28 boats enter the parade this year We had a number of yacht clubs in the area participate, with t...
Community mourns passing of beloved teacher, civic leader
Dixie Otis had a way with words, a knack for saying just the right thing to lift one’s spirits, to encourage and inspire. Not even death, which came unexpectedly on Sunday, can silence that voice. D...
