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This bee’s legs were loaded with pollen as it did its buzzywork on a Ceanothus bush blooming on the Swinomish Reservation last week. – Photo by Robin Carneen...
People who gather every week at Maple Hall for lunch with the La Conner Senior Center were making “last supper” and “last meal” jokes on Tuesday. After eight years, the Senior Nutrition Program of the Skagit County Department of Public Health and Community Services has stopped delivering meals for the La Conner seniors. Tuesday’s “last meal” consisted of meatball subs with spinach salad, a fruit cup, a cookie and a choice of chocolate or 1 percent milk for a suggested price of $5, which nearly e...
It’s no secret diamonds have value. Same with the players who toil upon them. And, in the case of NW2B baseball and softball ranks, the most valuable players happen to wear La Conner High uniforms. The two pitchers who hurled La Conner teams to the top of league standings and into postseason each garnered MVP honors in recent balloting among NW2B programs. Max Miller, who went 10-1 with 99 strikeouts in 65 innings, was named the league’s Most Valuable Player on its baseball side. The softball MVP award was garnered by Olivia Hedlund, who fan...
Monday May 25 9:20 p.m.: Loud argument – An intoxicated male guest at aNorth First Street hotel in La Conner was upset because his wife had left her driver’s license inBurlington while shopping. The argument was loud enough to cause guests to report it to police, but it was all verbal. Tuesday May 26 10:44 a.m.: A real creep – An employer at an agricultural business onCalhoun Road east of La Conner was made aware that a male employee had been continually asking a female coworker for sex. Deputies contacted the guy regarding his i...
A La Conner area dog was mauled Sunday morning by a pack of three coyotes at the stretch of waterfront where locals take their dogs to play north of Pearle Jensen Way. Yodi, a 9-year-old, 40-pound pit bull-beagle mix survived but suffered puncture wounds to her legs as two coyotes tried to pull her down. The dog’s owners are Annie Jensen and Jerry Helsel. Jensen, who works at Pioneer Market, said Helsel was walking the dogs, Yodi and Jewel, a German shorthair, along the beach when the pair w...
