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During the Christmas season we hear and sing one of the most famous of all Christmas carols: “Joy to the World.” This year, not just churches, but our secular community choirs have celebrated the 300th birthday of this famous carol and made it the...

We gift the paper to our son – who lives in New York City. He is busy with work and family (yes!) – but he looks at it and seems to enjoy the parts he reads. He at least reads my letters (I hope). Most of the “kids” in that gen...

My elderly father lives alone in a small apartment and receives care by an agency because he is bed-bound. There isn’t much room to visit, but our family wants him to feel a part of us on Christmas as this may be his last one. Any suggestions? It cer...

Darwin Eugene Butcher, 88, passed away peacefully at home on December 9th, 2019 surrounded by his wife of 55 years and loved ones. Darwin was born August 11th, 1931 in Ogden, Utah to Harold Butcher and Hazel (Bingham) Butcher. He was the oldest of... Full story

Roy Horn literally wrote the book on the Hope Island Volunteer Fire Department. Now he is about to embark on a new chapter in life. Horn announced his decision to retire as chief of Skagit County Fire District 13 near La Conner in May, a post he has...

There was a time, a generation ago, when Miles Johns was truly a man about town, involved in just about every possible civic project in and around La Conner. The only time he was in the dark, it seemed, was while on the job at the old Channel Town...

Saturday will be the shortest day of the year. All month darkness has come earlier and daily the sun has risen later. Slowly, oh so slowly, come mid-January, the darkness will lift. We are in the middle, not the end of the season of darkness....