Planning commission roundtable hears residents

In the film “Cool Hand Luke,” actor Strother Martin, famed for his role as the sadistic warden, delivered one of Hollywood’s most iconic lines.

“What we’ve got here,” Strother’s character tells Paul Newman’s Luke, “is a failure to communicate.”

Town of La Conner officials are taking steps to avoid having those words directed at them.

Three weeks after communication strategies were addressed during a forum at the La Conner Retirement Inn, La Conner planning commissioners and Council Member MaryLee Chamberlain followed up with a 75-minute roundtable session devoted to the same topic at Maple Hal...