Most Boy Scouts are pathfinders, but brothers Spencer and Joseph Arrington have taken trailblazing a step further. The Anacortes teens recently explored and surveyed long vacated and virtually hidden Fort Whitman on Goat Island three miles southwest of La Conner in Skagit Bay.Their extensive research has been displayed both digitally and on a traditional...

There’s little doubt Kathy Herrera puts her heart into her career.But that’s just a figure of speech compared to the sacrifice she made away from work this summer. The La Conner Middle and High School athletic director and assistant principal donated a kidney to her brother-in-law, 41-year-old Fred Schori, of Seminole, Florida, in a five-hour...

Amy Moe and Byron Betts are bringing an old crop back to new life in the Skagit Valley. They are the first hop growers to surface in the valley in years. While most people think of eastern Washington as the hops capital of the state, Moe says hops were actually grown quite widely in Skagit Valley – before Prohibition. Fir Island was once filled with...