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All of La Conner’s elementary school students and most of the middle school kids will come back from winter break to new classrooms on Monday. This week, the entire school staff has been working to move the kindergarten through fifth grade classes across Sixth Street to what has been the middle school. Meanwhile, the middle school’s grades six and seven classes are moving across the street to the district administration building, where the eighth-grade classes have been housed all year. The rel...
Lying in a hospital bed while receiving a second round of chemotherapy hardly seems like a good fit for receiving good news. But that was the case Monday for La Conner’s Ashlyn Reinstra, who learned then that her younger siblings, Erick and Addie, are positive matches for a pending bone marrow transplant. Once the aggressive leukemia that sidelined Ashlyn – a former La Conner High soccer star who was playing on the Skagit Valley College women’s team when stricken last fall – is pushed into remission, she may begin the lengthy tra...
Fire District 13 Assistant Chief Woody Weiss plans to climb 1,311 steps on Sunday in a competition to benefit La Conner teenager Ashlyn Reinstra and a charity working to cure the terrible disease she is fighting. Through sponsorships, entry fees and donations, firefighters from throughout the state compete in climbing the 69 flights of stairs in the 788-foot Columbia Center tower in downtown Seattle to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Last year, the event drew some 1,500...
The Skagit County Fire Marshall’s office and several insurance investigators are still examining the charred evidence to pinpoint the cause of the Shelter Bay Marina fire. The Feb. 21 inferno burned and sunk seven boats and severely damaged several others. While there has been much speculation about the cause of the fire — people are guessing everything from electric heaters, faulty wiring and even arson — no cause has been identified so far. “We are probably still about two weeks out before we come to any conclusions on what sta...
Skagit Valley resident Valerie R. Tully died at age 68 at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle on Saturday, February 22 with her husband Robert and brother Donald Nault at her side. Valerie was born to Benjamin Howard and Nancy Marilynn MacKenzie Raley on December 2, 1945 in Los Angeles, California. She spent most of her childhood in Great Falls, Montana, where she attended school from 1952 and graduated from Great Falls High School with the class of 1964. She attended various Montana colleges... Full story
The sky might be spitting chunky frozen rain at times, but it’s a sure sign spring is near when crews are out picking daffodils. Here, a smiling Javier Lopez, who hails from Mexico, carries an armload of blooms he harvested in a field near La Conner. – Photo by Don Coyote...
