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To the Community, Signs posted on the Library Thrift Shop advising donors that books are no longer being accepted have caused some questions and confusion. Please be assured that Shop remains open for business Wednesday through Saturday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Sunday 12 - 3 p.m. It will remain open until we are advised to close for the construction of the new Library sometime in late spring. Meanwhile, your donations of furniture and household goods are very important to us and very much appreciated. Thanks for your continued support, Joan...
Well, 2019 has passed and we are all very fortunate to call our La Conner community home in 2020. With costs for services continuing to rise, the town must be ever vigilant to ensure that we are utilizing our resources as efficiently as possible. One of the administration’s main goals for 2019 was to assist the library foundation in its ardent pursuit of funding for a new facility. As many of you know, the library was successful in its endeavors, and we will see a groundbreaking for the new building in the 3rd quarter of 2020. The foundation d...
Not quite the last light of day, but the right moment late in the afternoon at the start of the year blends light, clouds, Mesman’s farm, Pleasant Ridge and the Cascade foothills, taken from Alverson Road. A similar scene could have been painted on canvas or captured on black and white film100 years ago....
J.J. Wilbur rang in the New Year wearing a sweater knitted more than a half-century ago. It’s a hand-crafted garment that never goes out of style. The same is true of the values the sweater represents....
For Neal, whose interests are deep and varied, hers is a future that’s very much an open book...
Five homes will be built in Channel Cove this year, said Home Trust of Skagit Director Jodi Dean during a phone call Monday. “Five families, five homes, Christmas 2020 is our target” is her mantra. That 2019 goal was not met. Completing the development near Caledonia Street and Maple Avenue stalled last summer over funding and getting an extensive environmental assessment done. Home Trust was awarded $600,000, part of $5.1 million granted by the Washington Department of Commerce Washington State Housing Trust Fund Dec. 19. The Housing Aut...
Patsy Love sailed boats, taught special needs students, mended library books, repaired clocks and wrote books – but she was best known for making jam. “We met while she was picking up plums in my yard,” said neighbor and good friend Jo Ann Mulanax. “She made all kinds of jam for people, preferably from fruit picked up for free.” The La Conner resident died in her home on Fifth Street on November 26. Patsy and her late husband Hal Love moved to La Conner from Bellevue in the 1990s. Ten years of part-time life aboard the Echo Summit...
An optimistic and energetic District 10 State Rep. Norma Smith (R- Clinton) came to the Weekly News office Monday seeking support for her, and her Republican caucus’ agenda for the legislative session opening in Olympia Jan. 13. The six term legislator is hoping that district constituents – you – will embrace the Republican legislators positions and convince majority Democrat legislators to pass their legislation. Smith is championing three themes: 1. Maintaining the $30 car tabs passed by voters last November, while supporting a...
MILLTOWN, Wash. — The U.S. Coast Guard and a good Samaritan rescued three duck hunters after their vessel capsized Dec. 29 near where the north fork of the Skagit River enters Skagit Bay. A good Samaritan rescued one of the three hunters and brought him to a nearby marina, where he called 911. Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound watchstanders received an initial request for assistance from the Skagit County Sheriff Department as deputies were attempting to rescue two men who remained stranded in mud flats roughly 200 yards from the Skagit...
Looking at the calendar, long ago this early January editorial on 2020 vision was scheduled. The metaphor is too good to pass up. Getting past the cliches and rhetoric is worth the challenge. But no view is clear, whether on our home turf in and around La Conner, in Skagit County, Washington state or nationally. The vision is even more cloudy now, for assassinations escalate conflict, they do not end it. Rockets from drones blow up more than people. Bombs make huge craters withing as well as between nations, chasms that will not soon be...
It is now more expensive to take Skagit Transit, the local green and white bus. The fare increases the Skagit Transit board of directors passed last summer took effect Jan. 1. This is the first fare increase since 2008. One way adult fixed route fares are still $1, but one day passes are $3, a $1 increase. Transfers are no longer free. Staff recommend buying one day passes for multiple rides. The 31-day pass is $30, up from $25. Youth and disabled fares remain 50% of the regular price. County connector fares on the routes 80X and 90X will not...
