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Call it déjà vu on steroids. The La Conner Braves must defeat a Friday Harbor team that defeated them by 31 points earlier in the season. They’ve done that once. Now they have to do it again. La Conner squares off once more against Friday Harbor tomorrow afternoon, Thursday, in Sedro-Woolley, less than two weeks after closing out regular season play with a dramatic 52-49 win over the Wolverines at Landy James Gym. This time it will be in a District Tournament elimination round, starting at 4:15 p.m. Friday Harbor routed La C...
Monday Feb 6 10:39 a.m.: False alarm – Deputies received a 911 hang-up call from a building on Morris Street, La Conner. No problems found. 3:50 p.m.: Dog-napping – A small dog was reportedly taken from a vehicle parked at La Conner’s Pioneer Market. The dog was later found walking down the street. Wednesday Feb 8 12:04 p.m.: Shoplifting – A 26-year-old woman was arrested for shoplifting makeup at the Pioneer Market in La Conner. 4:54 p.m.: Worried – A caller was concerned his house, which was for sale, had an i...
After three months of searching and interviewing, the La Conner School Board has selected a new district superintendant. The school board wants to hire Whitney Meissner, 46, who comes from Chimacum School District in Jefferson County, where she is a high school principal and district assessment director. Meissner has a doctorate of education from Seattle Pacific University. “It was a very challenging decision and a lot of thought was put into it,” board president John Thulen said as the boa...
Voters in La Conner School District approved a $2.5 million property tax increase that will be collected over two years starting in 2018. In a special election that ended at 8 p.m. Tuesday, a levy to fund operations and educational programs was passing with more than 61 percent of the vote. The numbers in the early returns were 660 yes votes and 418 no. One of the goals of the levy is to enhance teacher pay to make La Conner Schools more competitive with other school districts in attracting and retaining good educators. The La Conner levy will...
Nearly three months later, the La Conner High girls’ basketball team finds itself back where it started. The Lady Braves face Auburn Adventist — an early season non-league foe — in District Tournament action tonight, Wednesday, in Sedro-Woolley. Tip-off is set for 6 p.m. “We beat them 49-33 earlier in the year,” La Conner head coach Scott Novak said Sunday of the Lady Falcons, “but the game was a lot closer than the final score indicates.” Indeed it was. La Conner led by single digits before finishing with a flurry in the final sta...
The first in a series of eight “consultations” to be held by the Bureau of Indian Affairs on rules regarding business enterprises on reservation land will be held next Thursday at the Swinomish Casino and Lodge. While the agency is seeking comment from tribes on a variety of elements as it ponders revisions to the “Traders With Indians” rule, the issue garnering the most attention among tribes and local governments involves taxes. Essentially, some tribal officials hold that it is unfair for state and local governments to tax non-tri...
A fire on the Swinomish Reservation destroyed a family’s home on Saturday. Firefighters from Fire District’s 13 and 11 and the City of Anacortes responded at about 1:15 p.m. to a house burning on Reservation Lane. The resident, Amanda Johnston, was not at home at the time, and there were no injuries. On Monday Johnston was assessing the damage, and said her cat, “Fuzzy Pickles,” and dog, “Bentley,” were confused about being displaced, too. Aly Sehlin, a language arts teacher at La Conner Middle School has set up a Go Fund Me page for Johnsto...
