Manville-Ailles will plan for Mount Vernon

Marianne Manville-Ailles has played a key role for three years helping develop long range plans for the Town of La Conner.

Now her own career plans are taking her elsewhere.

Manville-Ailles announced last week she will leave after the holidays to assume a senior planning position with the City of Mount Vernon.

Town Planner since January 2018, Manville-Ailles also provides contract basis planning services for the Town of Concrete and other entities and clients.

That relentless juggling act, further complicated by impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, had become increasingly less sustainable.

“At th...