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The old Potlatch Resort is turning into the new La Conner Marina RV Resort. “We’re hoping we’ll have it open Memorial Day,” said Harbormaster Kody Skvaril. Crews have been sprucing up the property, trimming trees and improving the RV spots. Last week the building demolition began, and on Monday, the old Potlatch structure had been reduced to a pile of rubble and what remains of the yet-to-be uprooted indoor swimming pool. Skvaril said there are plans to turn the old Potlatch building site into a...
CHEER SPREADERS – Felie Brown and Ele Drews brought smiles as they performed the song “Over the Rainbow” during the second annual talent show held at La Conner Retirement Inn on Saturday. – Photo by Amylynn RichardsCHEER SPREADERS – Felie Brown and Ele Drews brought smiles as they performed the song “Over the Rainbow” during the second annual talent show held at La Conner Retirement Inn on Saturday. – Photo by Amylynn Richards...
Matt Warren checks the density of fertilizer as it is being loaded into a “swamp buggy” to be spread on fields at 6 a.m. The spreader machine’s nickname comes from its big wide tires. Spring planting starts before daylight and often lasts into the night. The photographer drives farm machinery this time of year. – Photo by Don Coyote...
The La Conner High baseball team answered several questions last week with three big statement wins. All of which had Braves coach Jeremiah LeSourd speaking in superlatives and exclamation points afterward. “We had our best week of the year,” LeSourd stressed Saturday, following a clutch 7-6 non-conference win over Mount Baker, his club’s third triumph in five days. “The team is having fun and continuing to improve,” he added. “The pitchers and defense kept us in games, and offensively we had big innings that put us over the top.” It do...
They took no shortcuts, it just seemed that way. La Conner High track teams made fast work of an NW1B/2B League Meet at Friday Harbor on Thursday, where practice and preparation paid off with several of coach Peter Voorhees’ charges recording personal bests. He cited two, in particular — thrower Sarah Hastings and distance runner Jordan Holt — afterward. “They were our athletes of the week,” he said, “with Sarah setting PRs (personal records) in the shot and discus and Jordan setting a big PR in the 3200 and doing things right a...
It was an up-and-down week for the La Conner High softball team, which earned a split in games against two quality foes. Fortunately for the Lady Braves, they won the meeting that mattered most. La Conner edged NW2B rival Friday Harbor 3-1 at home behind a virtuoso seven-strikeout effort from junior hurler Olivia Hedlund, who helped her cause with a double and two runs driven in. With the win, La Conner kept its conference ledger unblemished with a 2-0 mark. The Lady Braves are 5-3 overall going into today’s (Wednesday’s) 2 p.m. non-league hom...
Longtime Skagit Valley resident Milton Dean Gronemyer died on Saturday, April 18 at a local care facility following a brief illness. He was 73. Milt was born Nov. 18, 1941, in Wellington, Kansas to Milton Dale and Sylvia Jane Utterback Gronemyer. He moved as a youth with his family to southern California, graduating in 1960 from Pacific High School in San Bernardino. Upon graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving in Europe as a clerk typist for captains and colonels, often earning letters of commendation for his precise and detailed...
Tuesday April 14 Midnight: Suspicious – A person was seen walking around in the area of the La Conner roundabout. Deputies found a vehicle in the area, but nobody around. The registered owner had sold the vehicle, but had not updated the information with the state, which is not only required by law but is a good idea so the registered owner is not legally liable for future problems. Even so, the new owner’s name was with the vehicle so deputies made a note of it just in case there were issues reported later. 3:13 p.m.: Sad ending &...
La Conner town and school officials continued hounding state and federal officials this week as some residents prepare to shell out up to 25 percent more in property taxes by the April 30 deadline. On Tuesday, the town-school lobbying consortium met with representatives of U.S. Senator Patty Murray and U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell. “We’re reaching out where we can and trying to do what we can,” said La Conner School Board President Rick Thompson, whose own property tax bill went up by more than $1,000 this year following a federal decis...
