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Chamber hosts ice cream social Mar. 10
This year's La Conner Chamber of Commerce's Ice Cream Social, Silent Auction and Community Open House is a mouthful of a title as well as yummy and a good cause. Put on your calendar a visit to Maple...
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The Slider Café family celebrates Tahoe wedding
The Slider Café is a family restaurant in more than name only. The Morris Street diner, known to locals for its friendly small-town ambiance and mission to "feed the hangry," is no mere workplace...
Take Skagit County COVID-19 health survey
There is no doubt the COVID-19 pandemic brought with it unprecedented public health, economic, and mental health challenges for individuals and the community at large. While COVID transmission still remains in Skagit County, Public Health is now...
Library Happenings
New library cards have arrived! Come by the library to get your brand-new library card featuring our new logo. Our system requires us to use a new barcode number, so everyone will get a new card. If...
Poets read Feb. 25
Saturday Sam and Sally Green and poet friends read from “Art in a Public Place,” the latest issue from the Madrona Project Poetry Reading Series. Washington state Poet Laureate is among the dozen poets reading at 7 p.m. at Pelican Bay Books, 520...
Locals post 'Runaway Snow Geese'
The history of snow geese in the Skagit Valley is a tangled and complex story of unintended consequences from human intervention. In her story, "Washington's Runaway Snow Geese," for Biographic...
Disney artist will draw interest at library next Wednesday
Bob Abrams can literally draw upon a lifetime – at 93, a long one, at that – of sharing highlights of a colorful career as an animator with Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera and Disney, among others. Fo...
Presidents' Day Holiday Closures
Presidents’ Day, Feb. 20 Bank: Closed Buses: Regular service Library: Closed Post Office: Closed Schools: Closed Town Hall: Closed County government offices: Closed Trash Pick Up: Yes Honoring our highest hopes...
Apply for new commission
The La Conner Emergency Management Commission seeks applicants. Apply by 4 p.m. Feb. 28. Information and applications are on the town’s website. Send applications to [email protected]; mail to Town of La Conner, PO Box 400, La...
Stuff The Bus food drive
Help stuff the bus in the fight against hunger Feb. 25, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Bring non-perishable food donations and non-food life essentials, including laundry soap, hygiene products, cleaning supplies, toilet paper, etc. Located at 130 East Fairhaven...
Samish Island community meeting
Skagit County will host a community meeting for Samish Island residents Monday, Feb 27, 6-8 p.m. at the Samish Island Community Center, 11292 Blue Heron Road, Bow. Topics include community flood preparedness and flood and emergency response. The...
Bill Slater: An artist with a visionary eye
William Slater, known variously as Bill, Billy or Weeyum, lived among us here in the lower Skagit River area some forty years. He hailed from the other coast, an estuary that had been famously...
More coffee, biscuits and potatoes in and around town
Morning coffee, afternoon tea and better St. Patrick's Day potatoes are now on tap in greater La Conner. Cruser Coffee, 313 Morris Street, is a new source for your morning joe. Nicole Cruse owns and...
Historic La Conner Civic Garden Club continues to cultivate good works
Before there was a Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, there was a La Conner Tulip Show. And before the tulip show here, there was a La Conner Rose Show. Plus a fall dahlia show. All because, as the late...
Jazz Walk in Anacortes
The Manieri Jazz Endowment of the Anacortes Public Library presents six stages of live jazz March 3, 6-10 p.m. in tandem with the First Friday Art Walk. Seattle jazz vocalist Kelley Johnson is at the Rockfish Grill, 7-9 p.m. She performs with John Ha...
'Prelude to a Kiss opens Friday
“Prelude to a Kiss” opens Feb. 17 at the Lincoln Theatre in Mount Vernon, produced by the Theater Arts Guild. This romantic comedy begins with a chance encounter when Rita, a beautiful, bohemian, eccentric bartender, meets Peter, an attractive, b...
Clothing drive ends Friday
Drop off coats, socks, hats, gloves and shoes and women’s supplies at the La Conner WaFd Bank through Feb. 17 for the Winter Daytime Shelter in Mount Vernon. There is a dire need for women’s supplies. The Winter Daytime Shelter is open and...
Deception Pass ranks high on Instagram
New research has named Washington state park Deception Pass as the fourth most-Instagrammed state park in the U.S., with over 119,674 Instagram posts with the hashtag #deceptionpass. Source: Tavel Lens...
Former teacher Jim Frey remembered as motivator
Blessed with a broad skill set and diverse interests, the late Jim Frey, who served La Conner Schools for more than a decade as a teacher, coach, counselor and principal, is most remembered for having brought out the best in others. He did so,...
ALL HANDS WERE NEEDED TO PULL THIS BOAT OUT
The saga of the sunken boat, abandoned at a La Conner channel float, ended with Town public works staff Kevin Palaniuk, Todd Park and Mannie Pena, from left, bringing it ashore at the town boat lunch...
Morris and First street business shufflings
January and February may be quiet months for La Conner, but town businesses are in the midst of big changes. Perhaps the most prominent is the recently opened Firehall Kitchen and Taphouse at 402...
Sound Rowers Paddling Race in La Conner
AND THEY'RE OFF – Saturday paddlers headed north as the Sound Rowers Open Water Rowing and Paddling Club opened its season with its annual race in La Conner. High winds forced a course change from...
'Barefoot in the Park' at Whidbey Playhouse
The timing is perfect to go see "Barefoot in the Park," playing for two more weekends at Whidbey Playhouse after opening Feb. 3. It is set in a New York City brownstone in February 1963. It is February here and even more so in the apartment there,... Full story
Cothing drive at Washington Federal Bank
Drop off coats, socks, hats, gloves and shoes and women’s supplies at the La Conner Washington Federal Bank through Feb. 17 for the Winter Daytime Shelter in Mount Vernon. There is a dire need for women's supplies. The Winter Daytime Shelter is...
Valentine & Poetry Workshop Feb. 11
Join poet Jeffrey Morgan and paper artist Nancy Scagliotti to create love poems and valentines 1-3 p.m. Feb.11 at Habibi, 407 South First Street, Mount Vernon. Fee of $10 includes supplies. Families welcome. Register: [email protected]
