A catch-and-release fishery for wild steelhead is open this week and next, April 18-22, and 25-29, for the first time since 2009 in sections of the Skagit and Sauk rivers. Fishing was allowed last weekend, following the April 12 announcement from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Thousands of people of all ages visit Tulip Town every day. By 11 a.m. on a cold, blustery and rainy Monday morning this week the parking lot was filling up and hundreds of people were touring the tulip fields behind Tulip Town farm on Bradshaw Road. Tom and Jeanette DeGoode have 22 acres planted this year, their 58th year of governing Tulip Town. Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Town leaders caught a glimpse of the future last Wednesday morning. Designer Curt Miller shared drawings at a Town Parks Commission meeting for improving the Jordan Street pocket park on North First Street across from Swinomish Yacht Club. This would develop a waterfront lot next to the Kirsch property. Wednesday, April 18, 2018
La Conner Elementary School has gotten learning down to a science. This came after a campus visit last week by Dr. Alex Chang and his team aboard the 45-foot state-of-the-art mobile lab made available to schools by the Seattle Children’s Research Institute. Wednesday, April 18, 2018
His animated characters are known and loved around the globe. But there was a time La Conner was the hub of Craig Bartlett’s world. Wednesday, April 18, 2018
It didn’t rain on La Conner’s parade last Saturday. Instead it rained beforehand and afterward. The US Bank-sponsored Kiwanis Not-So-Impromptu Tulip Parade – which, quite fittingly, started 15 minutes later than scheduled – couldn’t have been better timed. Wednesday, April 18, 2018
