Much has happened in La Conner over the past dozen years, from completion of the popular waterfront boardwalk to a series of major street and infrastructure upgrades to creation of new public recreation and park areas.Yet more remains on the drawing board.Which is why three-term Mayor Ramon Hayes, a trained classical pianist who has been conductor of the...

Ryan Booth will soon have the rare opportunity to both study and make history at the same time.This after the La Conner High alum, now a doctoral candidate at Washington State University, was selected earlier this month for a prestigious J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Award.

Math Night at La Conner Schools was sum-thing special.Sixth graders through high school seniors showed their “mathological sides” – which often and fittingly took the shapes of triangles and rectangles – during a first-ever local prime time celebration of numbers and variables at the La Conner Middle School gymnasium Tuesday night.