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La Conner High students answered the challenge of competing against larger enrollment schools March 23. And they did so in a big way – by quickly and correctly answering a slew of critical thinking questions posed during state 1A Knowledge Bowl competition in Yakima. The La Conner team represented its 2B campus well, advancing to the semifinals before finishing fourth out of 18 entries at the state trials. “It was a complete team effort,” La Conner Knowledge Bowl head coach Beth Clo...
Go for the musical. Stay for the concert. Make your reservations now so you can get an aisle seat for the get-on-your-feet dancing when “Mamma Mia!” ends. The cast’s seemingly four encores – and the costume changes for them – are only the cherry on top for the Theater Arts Guild’s production at McIntyre Hall through April 13. This easy to like, family friendly – though a couple of scenes are R-Rated – musical is one daughters ought to bring their mothers to. Here is a happy, we’re all heroes and things are just goin...
Kenneth Ray Taylor, 71, gained his wings on March 18, 2019, when he passed of natural causes at home. He was born in Ellensburg, WA to Kenneth R. Taylor and Bettie (Reed) Taylor on December 2, 1947. After moving back to Skagit Valley, Ken attended Mount Vernon schools, participated in HS wrestling and band, and graduated in 1966. He attended SVC, began his career in precast concrete, loved duck hunting on the flats and played bass guitar and sang backup in several local rock bands; LITTLE DICKIE AND THE DELEGATES, THE UNDERTAKERS, and THE...
A graduating student, 18 years or older, can apply to Costco for scholarships. Greg Kennedy...
To the Editor There are a couple of significant errors of fact in Mr. Stoppelman’s letter of March 27. First, contrary to Mr. Stoppelman’s assertion, it is a crime to obstruct a federal investigation, whether or not the subject of the investigation is ever convicted of, or even charged with, a crime. Second, contrary to Mr. Stoppelman’s and Mr. Trump’s assertions, Mr. Trump has not been “completely and totally exonerated” of conspiracy and obstruction of justice. What Mueller conducted was not a trial. Mr. Trump was not charged with a crim...
Let’s all breathe a sigh of relief that the Mueller investigation is concluded after almost two years of high dudgeon from Trump and his devoted followers. I doubt that the release of Attorney General Barr’s redacted report will put to rest the parsing of words and phrases therein. But let’s be clear about the necessity and importance of Mueller’s thorough and fair effort. A foreign adversary, Russia, interfered with our 2016 presidential election process to favor candidate Trump. Eight U.S. intelligence agencies affirmed that interfe...
Open letter to the Town Council: The recent vote of the council to sell the Kirsch property violates our codes and is a theft from future generations here. I have attached a letter that I wrote in 2015 with citations from these documents. Back in that year (2015) you tried to sell it to fund Conner Park – and look – it’s funded. The same is true in 2019. The ring dike will get funded as long as there is the political will to do so. Nowhere in the ordinances does it say that it is acceptable to diminish the total amount of public a...
I frequently question government decisions: federal, state, or local, to sell off public property and to place that property into the hands of a private party, with the very permanent result that forever and for all time the property is no longer available for whatever public uses there are now or that might be found or dreamed of in the future. I believe that public property and its uses define a community and that any change in its ownership should be part of a broad public planning process that a) takes account of who we are and of our...
A park visitor Your Pioneer Park in La Conner on the hill overlooking the canal is beautiful. I live in Bellingham and I like to drive down and sit and read on the bluff above the water and enjoy the park and its trees. But then the call of nature disputes my reading and I walk to the bathrooms. I find them LOCKED. Over and over. Winter and spring. Sumer and fall. Morning and afternoon. Sometimes they are open but to no discernible pattern. The sign on the tree says Park open dawn to dusk. Really? I don’t think so! What’s so frustrating is tha...
The Washington state legislature plans to provide at least $700,000 for a new La Conner Regional Library. Last Friday the House included $720,000 in the capital budget it passed. The Senate capital budget lists $700,000, which Library and local officials had requested. On Monday, District 10 Senator Barbara Bailey called the Senate’s figure “the minimum. That’s what I asked for.” In an interview, she said “we are going to be negotiating toward the $720,000.” District 10 Position 1 Rep. Norma Smith noted the long-term local efforts to fund the...
History and the future were woven together seamlessly in La Conner on Thursday. The final event of the Skagit County Historical Museum’s Golden Anniversary celebration that night peered ahead as much as it paid tribute to the past. A standing room only crowd of 75 gathered to watch the Museum’s time capsule re-filled and placed again inside the wall near its main entrance, not to be unsealed until 2069. It was, as best all could tell, a re-rerun of what took place there a half-century ago when t...
THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THIS CLUB – Marlene Brenton, left, was inducted into the Kiwanis Club of La Conner by its President Pat Clausen. The solemn ceremony included Brenton getting a club pin. Brenton’s day job is director of the La Conner school district’s after school program, the Little Braves Club. – Photo by Ken Stern...
AND THE WINNER IS – Rachel Cram, left, a ninth-grader at La Conner High School, is introduced by Pat Clausen, Kiwanis Club of La Conner president, before reading her essay at last Wednesday’s meeting. Cram’s essay, “History of our Town Newspaper,” was placed in the Skagit County Historical Museum’s time capsule, to be read next in 2069. Her great grandfather, Maurice Patrick O’Leary, owned the Puget Sound Mail for some 30 years after buying it in 1940. – Photo by Ken Stern...
La Conner’s housing boom continues this summer with five homes in Channel Cove, the development managed by Home Trust of Skagit. “We’re fully funded,” Executive Director Jodi Monroe said last Wednesday. She projects a July construction start and families moving in in December. Monroe received word that funding for construction, operations and down payment assistance had been approved. This will fill out the neighborhood on land the Trust owns on Park Street south of Caledonia and west of Maple Avenue. Monroe is excited that “five more town...
