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The La Conner School District has joined litigation brought by the Skagit County Prosecuting Attorney against the three leading opioid manufacturers in the U.S. market: Purdue, Janssen and Endo. The County is bringing legal action on behalf of the cities of Mount Vernon, Sedro-Woolley and Burlington, also. The City of Anacortes and other school districts are expected to join the lawsuit. In its resolution, the board of directors “finds the acts and omissions of the Opioid Manufacturers to be a clear threat to the health, safety, welfare and i...
DAYS ARE DAWNING YELLOW – Daffodils are blooming in the Skagit. This year the 450 acres outnumbers the roughly 350 acres of tulips that will come into flower in April. For now, enjoy all things daffodil. The La Conner Kiwanis are selling them around town. They would love to have you buy some. – Photo by Don Coyote...
PUTTING THE TOP ON TO SHADE OUT ALASKAN SUN – Mavrik Marine employees are putting the finishing touches on this three-story, 98 ft. x 30 ft, 150 passenger U.S. Coast Guard T Boat. Once in the water, and after passing its certification tests, it sails to Seward, Alaska. The owner is Major Marine Tours. Tourists enjoy prime rib dinners prepared in the service gallery as they cruise Kenai Fjords National Park. The upper deck includes a VIP lounge. The boat required 14 months of construction...
Patricia Paul was appointed to the Grand Ronde Court of Appeals by the Tribal Council of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Oregon in January. Paul, a La Conner lawyer and member of the Inupiaq Tribe, was reappointed to the three-member panel along with Robert Miller. Patricia Davis Gibson, the third judge, is a new appointee. Their two-year term started February. 1. Paul is a business and estate-planning lawyer specializing in land use law and federal Indian law. She lives on the Swinomish...
International Women’s Day flashed by last week, on March 8, too fast for me to catch it in the March 7 issue. But, reflect on women I did, thinking how different life is today for young women in college than for my sister 45 years ago, in 1973. She majored in physics at the University of Pennsylvania, a very good school. She got in, in part, because she was related to my dad, an alum. But that is another story. Margaret became a Ph.D. She wanted to be an astrophysicist, excited as she was by the moon landings. But part of her detour came a...
Mona maiden of the Salish, misguided maybe, maybe I can help. Sometimes my mind mingles with the mud of the bottoms where we live, sometimes I see and say, profetic and pathetic things. So it is that occasionally this prothetic prose is read by you. Mona, museum of northwest arts, right now is going through the misery of smelling its own farts. Let’s hope that some spring breezes clear the air. Perhaps a little insight from an artful farmer, it seems only fair. I’ve farmed here for over fifty years, with my artist friends as muses and gui...
Editor: Your March 7 news account and editorial contained the following misstatements: Board members live in Seattle: Current Board members live in LaConner, Anacortes, Edison, Bow, Burlington, and Seattle. The one Board member who lives in Seattle grew up in the Skagit Valley. Why Board members resigned and when: Board members that resigned before Christopher Shainin tendered his resignation in February include two new and two long-serving members. One member resigned over concern that the current controversy might impact their business and...
Dear Community: These are challenging times for our beloved Museum and the MoNA Community. As outlined in recent media, there has been good, bad and ugly. We want to assure our Community that we, the Staff, are here for you, and for your museum. We believe in the Museum’s mission and vision. We look forward to coming to work every day, working together for a common purpose: to connect people with art; to allow every visitor young and old to experience the incomparable power of art; and to value our artists, donors, members and volunteers. We w...
One Saturday evening not long ago, the distressed cries of a cat could be heard coming from our neighbor’s 70-foot-high tree. Closer examination with binoculars revealed that is was indeed a kitty stuck about five feet from the top. Throughout the next day, neighbors up and down our street visited the tree – all worried for the cat’s safety. One person placed a can of cat food at the base of the tree, and drove to the Fire Department for help. We learned that the Fire Department does not have the equipment nor ability to rescue treed cat...
And the children led. And our elders met them on Morris Street. That’s not breaking news. It is yesterday’s news, news from Wednesday, March 14. If you have a middle schooler or teen in the La Conner schools, your child told you this news. For everyone else, who wasn’t on Morris Street Wednesday, you just read the lead of next week’s front-page story. Students with signs marched from the high school to Morris Street. Rumor has it that elders from the Retirement Inn met them. I hope that became true. March 14 is the one-month anniver...
The Town of La Conner’s decision to install a single 16-inch pipe when it replaces the broken water main along La Conner Whitney Road this year provides excess capacity of 18 million gallons annually beyond what the Shelter Bay Community uses. The Community may decide it doesn’t want water from the Town at all. Board of Directors President Anne Hays told the Weekly News that its March 2 response to the Town “stated the community is talking with the Swinomish Tribe to provide water from their system, which is much closer to the Community and c...
