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Terrence Lee “Makah” Bobb passed away March 28, 2020 at Providence Regional Medical Center. Terry was born on September 1, 1948 in Mt. Vernon, WA, to Leonard and Rachel Bobb. Terry was raised on the Swinomish Reservation, attended the La Conner Schools and graduated Class of 1967. After high school Terry moved to Tacoma, WA to attend vocational welding school along with other Swinomish young men. His first employer was Pacific Car and Foundry in Tacoma, WA. He also worked for Skagit County Department of Transportation-Road Construction Div...
The White House Dear Mr. President: Congratulations on your decision to extend your national social distancing directive through April. The strength you displayed in changing your mind is admirable. It is a wonderous show of courage, that you are large enough to refute your earlier words, your hope that churches would be packed on Easter. I write as one who has questioned and even criticized actions of your presidency. But your directive opened my eyes to your path to reelection. I, too, love my country, and, like you, fear for its future, and...
Steady as she goes. In the old days, before planes or even cars, the metaphor for the nation was Ship of State. Is it smooth sailing? Are we battered by high winds and storms? Are there clouds on the horizon? Can we get over the (sand) bar? Are we on course? Never fear, the Captain’s steady hand is on the helm. The Captain will guide us into port. As a nation, we have always embraced the myth of a strong leader, whether that was General Washington or General Custer. From the first landings in Virginia and Massachusetts we have always pushed f...
Chloe Cunningham has been chosen the Soroptimist International of La Conner chapter’s April’s Soroptimist Honored Student of the Month. This is the essay she submitted to the chapter: My name is Chloe Cunningham. I’m 16 years old and a sophomore at La Conner High school. I’ve been attending La Conner Schools since kindergarten and have lived here my whole life. Many of you might know me as the person that collects socks for the homeless, through my company Just Say Socks. Volunteer work is some...
It took a historic pandemic to cut short a La Conner High alum’s in-depth study of history in India. Ryan Booth, now a doctoral student at Washington State University, saw his assignment as a Fulbright Scholar on the subcontinent cut short due to the COVID-19 crisis. Fortunately, Booth had worked at a frenetic pace while researching comparisons and contrasts between the British Empire’s use of native Indians in its military and the U.S. Army’s enlistment of Native American scouts on the weste...
The La Conner Weekly News is an essential business under Gov. Jay Inslee’s March 23 Executive Order directing residents to stay home and closing businesses except those “needed to maintain continuity of operations of essential critical infrastructure sectors and additional sectors.” The Weekly News is grouped in the communications sector, among “newspapers and media service, including, but not limited to front line news reporters, studio and technicians for newsgathering and reporting, and wor...
Most everyone is abiding by Gov. Jay Inslee’s “stay home, stay healthy” order. None more so than Mary Stroebel. The beloved longtime Pioneer Market cashier, a fixture at the local store since hiring on with then-owners Lois Coonc and Pam Johnson more than three decades ago, is taking a hiatus from work due to the COVID-19 outbreak. She has gone home – for the time being. “I’m 73,” she told the Weekly News in a telephone interview, “and I don’t want to catch it (the coronavirus) or give it to someone.” It was a tough decision. “Mom de...
With social distancing the new normal due to a global pandemic, local health care professionals are turning more to technology in their patient care. La Conner area medical clinics have employed secure video platforms to connect with patients anywhere at any time, while also regularly communicating with the public on how best to avoid COVID-19. “For the past two weeks we have been fully telemedicine capable, completely morphing our practice of in-person visits overnight, managing patients in their home for common illnesses such as b...
La Conner isn’t playing around when it comes to curbing the spread of COVID-19. The Town Council moved to temporarily close the John Hammer Memorial Playground below Town Hall and the Salmon Slide at Conner Waterfront Park following its lengthy discussion via a teleconference meeting March 24. In so doing, Town officials followed the lead of other Puget Sound communities employing multiple measures to limit exposure to the novel coronavirus. Councilmembers considered but did not close the p...
A La Conner area recluse has come out in the open to reinforce Gov. Jay Inslee’s “Stay Home, Stay Healthy” mandate. The Skagit Sasquatch, who last appeared publicly in the 1980s when he joined forces with the Lesser La Conner movement to discourage growth and tourism here, re-emerged from his local wooded hideout last weekend to promote state social distancing policies. The elusive Bigfoot, who these days prefers to be called “Darrell,” granted a brief interview with Mel Damski and an interpret...
Following Mayor Ramon Hayes call Friday, March 20 to Gov. Jay Inslee and Inslee’s own declaration to “Stay Home, Stay Healthy,” the governor announced he was transferring the capital to La Conner until state health officials could guarantee Olympia and the rest of Washington was coronavirus free on Monday. Hayes purportedly made a second call, demanding the governor show his order has teeth and will be enforced. Saturday and Sunday cars from Seattle cruised up and down the town’s First Street. Tourists were heard worrying that the La Conner...
The U.S. Navy will conduct real-time noise monitoring of aircraft-in-flight at Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island, WA and at NAS Lemoore, CA in 2020, as required by the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2020. Reports will be submitted to the congressional defense committees by December 1. Monitoring will continue through the summer of 2021. As required, monitoring will use American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/Acoustical Society of America guidance. The Navy reports it will place at least 10 Sound Level Meters (SLM)...
