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The La Conner High soccer team zeroed in on a perfect NW2B record in a big way last week. The Lady Braves, behind three goals from Emma Lee and two more courtesy of Kyla Crawford, blanked Orcas 6-0 to remain unbeaten in four conference starts. “Orcas was a really fun game,” an elated La Conner head coach Amy Freeto said afterward. “Our passing combinations were really on. It was one of those great games where everyone clicked, and it looked like we’d been playing together forever. “It was absolutely wonderful to watch,” she stressed. S...
Having a versatile attack has served the La Conner High volleyball team well. Especially on those rare occasions when its serving is sub-par. Last Tuesday was one of those times, but the Lady Braves were still able to dispatch NW2B rival Darrington in straight sets and remain undefeated in five starts. Due in large part to Olivia Hedlund’s deft and well-placed sets, La Conner breezed to a 25-12, 25-9, 25-15 triumph over the visitors. Hedlund recorded 51 assists on the night. “She did a nice job of spreading around the offense,” Lady Brave...
Olivia Hedlund has posted all kinds of crazy stats for the La Conner High volleyball team this season. But for the Lady Braves senior setter, the number one will do quite nicely. As in recognition that Hedlund is playing at the top of her game, the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association has certainly taken note, naming Hedlund its State 2B Volleyball Athlete of the Week for her all-around play during recent non-conference wins over Woodinville and Squalicum. Hedlund was tabbed for...
For Bellevue Christian, it felt not so much as a loss as merely running out of time. For La Conner, on the other hand, the fourth quarter couldn’t end soon enough. But when all was said and done, it was the Braves who had posted another statement win, though there were nearly as many question marks as exclamation points down the stretch. Plus one big sigh of relief at the end. La Conner defender Cameron Hansen knocked down a Bellevue Christian pass in the end zone on the final play of the game to secure a 27-22 non-league thriller Saturday a...
The La Conner Braves were true road warriors on Friday. La Conner crossed the Cascades as part of a long trip to Kittitas, but the Braves saved their peak effort for the gridiron, romping past Colfax 47-16 to remain unbeaten in two starts on the young campaign. The mountain passes were nearly eclipsed by those of La Conner quarterback James Hulbert, who completed 12 of 16 tosses for 185 yards and a pair of touchdowns. “James had another solid game at quarterback,” Braves head coach Johnny Lee said afterward. “His decision-making is conti...
For the La Conner High volleyball team, it’s a simple matter of reward outweighing risk. Putting themselves on the line — and at the net — against larger school foes in non-league matches runs the risk of suffering deflating early losses. But the reward of character-building tests — win or lose — is just too great for Lady Braves head coach Suzanne Marble to pass up. “We like to push our girls by playing a tough non-league schedule,” she said Sunday. By then, the Lady Braves had swept both 4A Woodinville and 3A Squal...
Mary Scott Fayé Ballantine Reinhardt, following a stroke died, peacefully at her home in La Conner on Monday, August 24, 2015. She was 88 years old. Mary was born February 10, 1927 in Makaweli, Kauai to parents Lindsay Anton and Gertrude Leilani Scott Fayé. A descendant of missionary and sugar industry families, Mary attended Punahou School in Honolulu until World War II broke out, and she was sent to school in the San Francisco Bay area, returning to Waimea to finish high school...
Monday, September 7 10:52 a.m.: Speeding – A vehicle onFir Island Road inConway coming from the north fork end of theSkagitRiver was reported to be speeding. 12:19 p.m.: Car in the way – Somebody parked their vehicle blocking a clearly-marked driveway onMorris Street in La Conner, blocking in out-of-town parked in the driveway who needed to leave. Deputies could not find contact information for the vehicle’s owner, so it was both ticketed and towed. Tuesday, September 8 5:54 p.m.: Inappropriate email – An ex sent an email t...
The first week of school went off without a hitch at La Conner elementary, middle, and high schools. “There were no problems at all,” confirmed Linda Pierson, secretary for the middle and high schools. “It was very smooth.” Two hundred and 16 students attend the high school, while the middle school has 144, and 266 youngsters make up the elementary school. As always, a new school year brought new changes. This year, Cheryl Sullivan took over as principal for the middle and high schools...
For many years, there has been talk of building a “ring dike” around La Conner to protect the low-lying areas of the town from potential Skagit River flooding. Now, the proposal to build an earthen dike across the northern edge of town from the channel on the west, and connecting to existing farmland dikes on the east, is something that is moving forward quickly. Earlier this year, there was hope that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers would kick in the first $100,000 to fund the dike studies, but that turned out to be something too costly for...
Mary L. App died peacefully on Wednesday, August 12 during a brief stay at a local hospital. Mary was the daughter of Harry Hitchcock, a broom maker, and the former Mayme Brett, homemaker and stay-at-home bookkeeper for their Butte, Montana broom shop. Mary loved her childhood in Butte and enjoyed recalling the escapades of her three Irish aunts and other memorable characters in that rough-and-tumble mining town once known as “the richest hill on earth.” After graduating high school at But...
It’s a big week for the La Conner High volleyball team. Big matches against big schools to help launch a season filled with big dreams. And the Lady Braves, a perennial State title contender, are used to turning those dreams into reality — in a big way. La Conner is coming off a third place State 2B Tournament finish a year ago, and while having lost Skagit area Player of the Year Emma Christianson to graduation, the Lady Braves return a solid nucleus — including five All-League players — to the fold in 2015. Head coach S...
Robert K. Edgett, Jr., 60, a longtime resident of Skagit Valley, passed away at age 60 at Island Hospital in Anacortes on Monday, August 24, surrounded by his family. He was born in Oak Harbor on September 23, 1954 to Robert K. and Donna C. Edgett. He graduated from La Conner High School with the class of 1973. Robert married Sarah J. Herrold, January 19, 1974 and was employed by Publishers/Anacortes Plywood until 1982 when he and Sarah started dairy farming. In 1996, they retired from dairy farming, and he was employed at Washington Alder,...
She comes from a small town in rural Alaska and has worked at a school with only around 125 students. She worked in Coolidge, Arizona, another town with a Native American reservation right on its border. She even quilts. Cheryl Sullivan is the new principal for the high school and middle school in La Conner, which has seen many big changes at the school district following the so-called Great Wolf Lodge tax decision and the ambitious construction of a new middle school. “I’ve been walking around,...
John Benjamin Tjersland, 84, a longtime resident of La Conner, died peacefully on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at Skagit Valley Hospital. He was born on October 7, 1930, in Burlington, the son of Henry and Bernice Clark Tjersland. At a young age, he moved with his family to Southeast Nebraska. He attended the rural school and Nemaha High School. He furthered his education and attended Peru State College before returning to Washington in August, 1949. Ben grew up on his family farm in Nebraska, and he worked on farms around La Conner. He joined the...
James “Jim” Grobschmit, a longtime resident of Skagit Valley, passed away at his home in Mount Vernon on Friday, July 24 at age 85. Jim was born in Ballard on January 16, 1930, the son of Mathew and Jennie Zeldenrust Grobschmit. He attended kindergarten through two years of high school in Ballard, when his father retired; they made their vacation cabin into a larger home and moved from Ballard to La Conner, where Jim finished his last two years of high school, graduating with his class of 194...
Thomas Ray Bergem died peacefully on Sunday, July 26, with his family by his side. Tom was born in Mount Vernon on December 21, 1944 to Albert and Florance Bergem. He went to school in La Conner and graduated from La Conner High School in 1963. In 1966, Tom met Paulette Klaus, whom he would marry a year later on July 29, 1967. In 1968, they welcomed their son Jim into the world, and in 1971, their daughter Shelley was born. He spent many years of his life working on outboard boat motors,...
Preseason workouts are still a few weeks away, yet the La Conner High football team already has a heads-up on its foes. Literally. The Braves have adopted use of the Riddell InSite helmet, a sensor technology headgear with a monitor that alerts coaches and sideline staff when a player experiences a significant hit or multiple impacts during a game or practice. The La Conner football program, according to Super-intendent Tim Bruce and head football coach Johnny Lee, will be the first in Washingto...
Julia Anna Laufenberg, 49, of Mount Vernon, died peacefully at home while surrounded by loved ones on Thursday, July 23 after a decade-long fight. She was first diagnosed with brain cancer in October 2005 and courageously battled the first tumor into remission. She was able to live a full, happy life for the next nine years. She was born on September 14, 1965 in Moses Lake. Julia graduated from Othello High School in 1983, then moved to La Conner, where she met and married the love of her life,...
Monday July 20 12:08 p.m.: Civil dispute – There was an issue regarding wages at a restaurant in La Conner. 4:33 p.m.: Fight report – A caller thought a fight was brewing onMorris Street in La Conner, but it turned out the dispute was nothing physical. 8:30 p.m.: Peace keeping – Deputies stood by while someone took property from a home onCaledonia Street in La Conner in keeping with a court order. Tuesday July 21 11:13 a.m.: Shoplifting – Somebody caught swiping candy at La Conner Drug Store refused to wait for law...
Road trips are nothing new for the La Conner High basketball program – unless, of course, it’s one scheduled for late July. And one that’s been as much anticipated as a Christmas tournament at Port Townsend or trip to Spokane in March. A large La Conner entourage will drive to Tacoma tomorrow, Thursday, to attend ceremonies honoring head coach Scott Novak as one of eight inductees into the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Novak joins a 2015 class that includes former Concrete coach John Pet...
Time is running out on an iconic La Conner sports arena. Contractors have begun demolition of the old school gym, built by volunteers nearly 70 years ago, and site of countless epic games and events from basketball buzzer beaters to community Halloween parties to the festive flower show that morphed into today’s Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. The landmark building is coming down as part of a new middle school construction project under way on the local campus. But because of lasting public s...
In Saturday’s parade, La Conner’s fire department will show off the newest addition to its arsenal — a gleaming new engine loaded with modern firefighting equipment and flaunting a decal featuring the sports logo of the high school. The engine, which has the capability to deliver 750 gallons of flame-retardant foam, with extremely high power, will give the department more than one engine and allow it to perform maintenance on its older engine. Until now, the older engine has been the sol...
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. But if so, a La Conner Town Council member on extended vacation has yet to feel the love from two of his colleagues. For the second straight summer, arrows have been flung — and not from Cupid’s quiver — at council member Jacques Brunisholz. The retired La Conner High School teacher has been chided by fellow council members Dan O’Donnell and John Leaver for his meeting absences, last year to fulfill a longtime goal of trekking the Pacific Crest Trail and now to visit family and friends i...
Ida Lois Denton Wold died April 17, 2015 peacefully at home with family by her side. Lois was the fifth child born to Francis Oscar and Mamie A. Valentine Denton on February 18, 1925. Her early years were spent on Pleasant Ridge on the land her grandfather, S. T. Valentine, homesteaded in the late 1880s. She lived her whole life in Skagit County. Lois graduated from La Conner High School and worked for the Puget Sound Seed Company in La Conner until her marriage to Alvin L. Wold in 1950. Then in 1961, Lois and Al adopted two brothers, Alan Ross...