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Beginning next week, officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, better known as FEMA, and people from the Department of Ecology and the National Marine Fisheries will be visiting La Conner to evaluate how well we are managing development in the floodplain areas of Town.

Later in the coming year, we will be visited by Community Rating System representatives to evaluate our membership in their program. The Community Rating System program is a voluntary national program in which communities can participate to lower the overall rates for flood insurance by implementing stringent co...