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The slight dip, to $57,164, in the Town of La Conner’s November sales tax revenue was the first sizeable year-to-year drop in collections since the first summer of the coronavirus pandemic, in 2020. That is $3,7467, 6.2% below 2021. Still, the $631,012 collected in 2022 is almost $140,000 above the year’s budget projections and exceeds 2021’s year total.

Elsewhere, revenues are solid gold, moving to platinum by year’s end. The $21,228 in hotel/motel tax revenues is the highest November report ever, 5.2% over 2021. Revenue is almost $50,000 above budget estimate. This is the ninth mo...