La Conner property owners packed Maple Hall Thursday to hear their local representatives give them the dire news:

There is no quick cure for the tax disparity that has hit La Conner harder than any other community in the state following the so-called Great Wolf Lodge decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Some 100 people missed the second half of the Seahawks game against the 49ers to hear what their school, county and town officials had to say during the meeting arranged by Mayor Ramon Hayes.

For more than a year, the decision by the appellate court in favor of the Ch...