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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...
Monday June 8 9:33 a.m.: Check theft – A check issued by the Town ofLa Conner was never received by the party expecting it, but was found to have been cashed inIowa. Thursday June 11 12:06 a.m.: Oops! – Someone in La Conner accidently dialed 911 from a phone that had been previously used to report a verbal argument. When deputies arrived, the phone’s owner had just gone to bed. 9:38 a.m.: Sign theft – Somebody stole the warning sign indicating cross traffic on does not stop at the intersection ofMaple Avenue andMorris S...
The La Conner High School Class of 2015....
The La Conner High School girls 4X100 Relay team finished second in state at the championship track meet held late last month at Eastern Washington University in Cheny. Here, clowning for a celebratory photo from left are Heather Hendrickson, Emma Lee, Kamea Pino and Sofie Thulen. – Photo by Debbie Thulen...
Monday May 25 9:20 p.m.: Loud argument – An intoxicated male guest at aNorth First Street hotel in La Conner was upset because his wife had left her driver’s license inBurlington while shopping. The argument was loud enough to cause guests to report it to police, but it was all verbal. Tuesday May 26 10:44 a.m.: A real creep – An employer at an agricultural business onCalhoun Road east of La Conner was made aware that a male employee had been continually asking a female coworker for sex. Deputies contacted the guy regarding his i...
Tuesday May 12 4:54 p.m. Assault – There was a report of an issue at Conway Elementary School, but all parties wanted it dealt with by the school without law enforcement involvement. Monday May 18 11:30 a.m.: Lost cell phone – Never mind. Found it in La Conner. 10:46 p.m.: Bad driving – There was a report that a red vehicle forced another off the road near Snow Goose Farm onFir Island Road. Deputies couldn’t locate the red vehicle. Tuesday May 19 1:41 p.m.: Oops! – Someone at the La Conner schools didn’t mean to dia...
The candidate filing period for the Nov. 3 general election closed on Friday and left La Conner area voters with a few contested races to decide. Town of La Conner For the Town of La Conner, Mayor Ramon Hayes is running for his third four-year term unopposed. La Conner Councilman Jacques Brunisholz, who retired after teaching generations of La Conner High School students and who has served on the council since 2008, is being challenged by Charity Starkenburg for his position 1 seat. Starkenburg is the popular owner of Bamboo Coffee, formerly...
While teachers in school districts across Washington were staging one-day walkouts to demonstrate their frustration with the level of state funding for education, La Conner educators took a different path. Instead of giving kids a day off and disrupting family schedules, the La Conner teachers took their message directly to the legislators, who might be able to do something about their concerns. Shortly after school was out on Friday afternoon, teachers and a scattering of students and community members gathered in the high school library,...
Monday May 4 11:29 a.m.: Drug problem – A student was found to be in possession of marijuana and alcohol at La Conner High School. 11:38 a.m.: Vandalism – Postal employees refused to let someone get into another patron’s post office box, and the person who tried to get the mail damaged one of the boxes at La Conner Post Office trying to gain entry. 2:46 p.m.: More vandalism – Somebody cut the fuel line on a truck parked behind Pioneer Market in La Conner. Tuesday May 5 1:54 a.m.: Argument – Someone reported a fight outsi...
Otto “LeRoy” Karlstrom of Shelter Bay died at age 93 on Thursday, April 30, after a long illness. He was born in Seattle June 16, 1921, to the Rev. Otto and Alva Karlstrom. He grew up in the Fauntleroy neighborhood with a sister Hildur and brothers Reinhold, Paul, Thor and Ernest. LeRoy graduated with honors from West Seattle High School in 1938, then joined his brothers at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois. In 1943 he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history. He served as a naval officer in the Pacific with an amphibious fleet...
La Conner High School Drama Club’s presentation of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” premieres on May 14 at 7:30 p.m. and runs through May 16. Shown here are some of the talented cast, Will Malcomson, Maggie Powell, Isabel Garcia and Frannie Fletcher. Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students and seniors and can be purchased in advance through the school district office, 466-3171....
He teaches math, but Scott Novak has long been a student of history. Especially La Conner High basketball history. Novak, a hoops coach at the school since 1988, has painstakingly developed within the foyer of Landy James Gym a virtual pictorial museum of La Conner basketball dating back nearly a century. Now he’s about to make some history of his own. Novak is among eight new members to be inducted into the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame this summer. N...
At sunrise on Monday, April 27, Mickey Kazhe Smith Sr., 51, member of the Swinomish Tribe died peacefully at home. He was born in Mt. Vernon on May 10, 1963 to Alfreda Sampson and Carl Kazhe. He was raised by his dad Ernest Bob Bailey. Mickey graduated from La Conner High School in 1981. Most of his life he was a Commercial Fisherman and cherished his time on the water. He was the deck boss on fishing vessel Anna J; he also fished on the Point Elliot and the Amber Dawn. Mickey was baptized at the Pentecostal Church when he was very young and...
It was an up-and-down week for the La Conner High softball team, which earned a split in games against two quality foes. Fortunately for the Lady Braves, they won the meeting that mattered most. La Conner edged NW2B rival Friday Harbor 3-1 at home behind a virtuoso seven-strikeout effort from junior hurler Olivia Hedlund, who helped her cause with a double and two runs driven in. With the win, La Conner kept its conference ledger unblemished with a 2-0 mark. The Lady Braves are 5-3 overall going into today’s (Wednesday’s) 2 p.m. non-league hom...
Tuesday April 14 Midnight: Suspicious – A person was seen walking around in the area of the La Conner roundabout. Deputies found a vehicle in the area, but nobody around. The registered owner had sold the vehicle, but had not updated the information with the state, which is not only required by law but is a good idea so the registered owner is not legally liable for future problems. Even so, the new owner’s name was with the vehicle so deputies made a note of it just in case there were issues reported later. 3:13 p.m.: Sad ending &...
Elisabeth Roald of LaConner died at her home on Wednesday, April 8, at age 86. She was a vibrant and amazing woman, who will be sorely missed. Betty, as she was known to all of her friends and family, was born on October 16, 1928. Her parents were James and Elisabeth Johnston. Betty was born and raised in Seattle, graduating from Roosevelt High School before attending the University of Washington. She graduated with a teaching degree and spent her career teaching in Seattle Public Schools. She w...
It’s their field contestants who are throwing La Conner Braves foes off track this spring. Both figuratively and literally. It happened again last week, at Northwest 1B/2B League Track and Field trials at Mount Vernon Christian. Michael Page, Zach Harris, and Brady Nelson swept a trio of field events to help lead the Braves to the meet title. La Conner edged host MVC 217.5 – 179 for top spot on the boys’ leaderboard. The La Conner High Lady Braves, led by Anna Cook’s four solo victo...
Cheryl Sullivan loves to run and quilt and will soon add juggling to the mix. As in juggling school administrative duties on the La Conner middle and high school campuses. Sullivan, a native of Ketchikan, Alaska, was tabbed from among four finalists to serve as principal and instructional leader for the two local schools. La Conner School District officials confirmed the choice of Sullivan, presently an administrator at Chief Sealth in Seattle, following two recent public forums featuring the principal candidates. She succeeds Marsha Hanson,...
La Conner High School student McKeighla Holt demonstrated her talent, producing a painting of Elvis during the Kiwaffodil celebration on Saturday. – Photo by Don CoyoteLa Conner High School student McKeighla Holt demonstrated her talent, producing a painting of Elvis during the Kiwaffodil celebration on Saturday. – Photo by Don Coyote...
The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community expects to send out tax bills to homeowners on the 931 parcels removed from the county’s property tax rolls by the end of this month. As with the county taxes homeowners are accustomed to paying, the Swinomish tribal tax can be paid in two halves on April 30 and October 31. For the 2015 taxes, the tribe intends to use the same assessment values Skagit County has set and will use the same tax rate – $14.28 per $1,000 of assessed value – as parcels on privately owned, or fee simple, land within t...
Second in State! That’s the status of La Conner High School’s “Somewhat Clean” Knowledge Bowl team after the State tournament last Saturday in Arlington. The competition was an entire day’s worth of brain-draining stress, as the six team members boarded the bus before sunrise and didn’t finish until late afternoon. They competed against 18 other 2B ranked schools from across the state in a brain sport similar to “Jeopardy!” It was all about who knew what and who could buzz in first with the...
Longtime La Conner resident Bert Butterworth died at age 92 on Wednesday, March 11, in Palm Springs, California. Bert was born on December 31, 1922 in Seattle to Carol “Cal” E. and Marion Ellerbeck Butterworth. He attended Seattle public schools, John Hay Grade School and Queen Anne High School. He joined the Washington National Guard in 1939 and was called to active duty on Sept. 16, 1940. He completed pilot training, on March 10, 1942 and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Res...
The La Conner School Board and Swinomish Indian Senate will hold a joint meeting this Thursday to discuss tribal sovereignty curriculum. By law, since a quorum of school board members will be present, the meeting will be open to the public. It will be held at 5 p.m. in the Swinomish Senate Chambers, on Moorage Way across the street from the Village Chevron station on the reservation. Tribal sovereignty curriculum is a state recommended program, approved by Washington state tribes, to provide instruction in Native American history and culture...
Lifelong Skagit Valley Resident Don L. McKee died on Tuesday, February 10 at age 92 at Fidalgo Care Center in Anacortes after a battle with pneumonia. Don was born on December 19, 1922 to Sidney T. and Fannie M. McKee in their home at 1710 12th Street in Anacortes. Shortly after, the family moved to 903 23rd Street, where he lived most of his school days in Anacortes attending Nelson Grade School, Junior High in the Old Columbian High School building and graduating as Anacortes High School...
Monday Feb 2 10:05 a.m.: Info please – Someone onFlats Road north of La Conner had questions concerning a parenting plan. 4:12 p.m.: Big ticket – A driver stopped for speeding near Best andDodgeValley roads near Rexville was found to be driving on a suspended license. He was cited. Tuesday Feb 3 10:13 a.m.: Civil issue – There was another incident in an on-going dispute concerning the sale of a home onSouth Third Street in La Conner. 12:15 p.m.: Potty party – An intoxicated person was given a ride home from the public...