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Six-year-old Conner McKerring expresses the magnitude of his appreciation for colorful tulips with his 4-year-old sister Kennedy at his side. The Anacortes kids were visiting the fields with their mom Monday afternoon. – Photo by Don Coyote...
La Conner Mayor Ramon Hayes has launched a town lobbying effort to address a situation that has left a fraction of the taxpayers shouldering the lion’s share of the local taxes. In January 931 parcels were removed from the La Conner area property tax rolls following a federal court ruling that structures on Indian reservation land are tax exempt regardless of who owns the structures. That means homeowners in Shelter Bay and in the Pull and Be Damned Road area who built their homes on land l...
Cheryl Sullivan loves to run and quilt and will soon add juggling to the mix. As in juggling school administrative duties on the La Conner middle and high school campuses. Sullivan, a native of Ketchikan, Alaska, was tabbed from among four finalists to serve as principal and instructional leader for the two local schools. La Conner School District officials confirmed the choice of Sullivan, presently an administrator at Chief Sealth in Seattle, following two recent public forums featuring the principal candidates. She succeeds Marsha Hanson,...
La Conner High came out flat but kept on truckin.’ And, in the end, the Lady Braves shifted gears with some daring base running and timely hitting to forge a 6-5 comeback win in non-league softball action with Meridian on Thursday. Elizabeth Tripp stole two bases during a key sixth inning La Conner rally that tied the score, setting up a sharply hit game-winning infield grounder by Le Anne Swan in the seventh. “Coming back to tie the game in the sixth and then winning it in the seventh was a huge confidence builder for us,” said La Conne...
Feast or famine. Such was the case for La Conner High in two key league baseball dates last week. The Braves served up a smorgasbord of offense in a 9-1 rout of NW2B rival Shoreline Christian, then found slim offerings against Orcas pitching in a tough 2-1 conference loss to the Vikings. Orcas projects as one of four favorites — along with La Conner, Friday Harbor, and Concrete — vying for the Northwest District’s lone State berth this season. La Conner and Orcas meet again on April 8. “It should be interesting,” said La Conne...
Tuesday March 24 2:09 p.m.: Lost wallet – A woman called and wanted a deputy to check the counter at the Post Office in La Conner to see if she left her wallet there. Deputies did not locate the wallet. Wednesday March 25 9:32 a.m.: Burglary – Two boats at the north end of La Conner Marina were broken into and things were stolen. Thursday March 26 2:32 p.m.: Tulip traffic – The La Conner School District asked for help with heavy tourist traffic at Morris and 6th streets, an intersection crucial to school traffic. 9:41 p.m.:...
Seven-year-old Maeve McCormick’s egg survived a drop from the top of a fire truck ladder. Fire District 13 provided the personnel and ladder truck to help La Conner Elementary School students complete their annual spring time experiment to determine the amount of packaging necessary to protect an egg from a shell-shattering fall. – Photo by Amylynn Richards...
