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Though La Conner rests along the well-traveled Swinomish Channel, its town government is entering uncharted waters in terms of mapping a financial game plan for 2021. The reason is COVID-19. Despite prospects of a much-anticipated vaccine being...

Since 2009, half a million kilowatt hours of electricity have been produced on Beaver Marsh Road. The source of that power? Cows. While the plant just north of Summers Drive still produces up to 750 kilowatt hours a day – enough to power 550...

As spring dawned, the coronavirus pandemic exploded on the scene. This paper’s first COVID-19 editorial, “Taking flattening the curve seriously,” was dated March 25. Additional editorials on the pandemic have followed. Early on, some saw the massi...

This is my first column here since September. I reserve this space for considerations that are reflective and personal. The first person “I” is rarely in an editorial. Musings, by both their title and nature, are personal. I am the person wondering a...

In the flood of disinformation filling the internet this election season, it was easy to miss another rapidly spreading phenomenon: partisan profit-driven websites putting out propaganda masquerading as local news. Across the country, more than...

Dear Editor, I read a recent letter to the editor requesting responsibility in submitted opinions, reminding us that students, especially, should read civil dialogue. Granted. Yet remaining civil in a time of gross incivility tests the restraint of...

In his letter of December 9, Dennis Sather speculates what will happen ‘when Joe Biden and his anti-gun cohorts start knocking on doors to confiscate firearms from legal gun owners.’ The last time we heard this hysterical rhetoric was after the ele...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress has included funding extending real-time noise monitoring at two West Coast Navy installations and making the data publicly available in 2021 as part of the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The...

I find myself counting down the days at this time of year. Not in anticipation of the end of the pandemic, the New Year, or in the hopes of getting “the perfect gift” driven by consumerism. Though I have lived in this region for almost 20 years, it...

New businesses are betting on tourists coming to La Conner next year, opening in the midst of a pandemic and as social restrictions tightened. On First Street, Winston’s General, owned by handmade la conner’s Robyn Bradley, opened Dec. 4. Yvonne Cor...

To the Editor: We were taken aback at the recent letter to the editor, Dec. 9, titled “Biden: seizing guns is dangerous.” The first sentence asks the question, regarding those who knock on doors to confiscate firearms: “...what percent of those...

Monday, Dec. 7 3:20 p.m.: Cows in dispute – Deputies responded to a civil issue over livestock that were involved in a dissolving business relationship. Skagit City Rd., Conway. Tuesday, Dec. 8 7:28 a.m.: Stuck truck – Deputies responded...

From staff reports La Conner Town officials have looked beyond Christmas lights for bright spots in a year shrouded by the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, they found some. The Town Council took note of the year’s successes at its Dec. 8 t...