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What was old was new again at the Museum of Northwest Arts 30th annual auction in person at the museum Friday, June 17. Every wall of the first and second floor galleries was hung with art, with sculptures displayed on stands and tables. The art was mostly donated by local and regional artists and collectors. Still-new Executive Director Stefano Catalani marveled at the generosity of artists and collectors in offering their work for the fundraiser, noting, “This is one of the few auctions where you have prime from the fifties and sixties w...
Just about everyone in town knows Gable Wilkins. Now folks all around the country do, too. The 36-year-old La Conner resident, whom his friends insist has a heart of gold, can also wear that precious metal on his chest after having helped Team Washington capture top honors in volleyball at the nationally televised 2022 USA Special Olympics in Orlando, Florida earlier this month. “It was totally fun,” Wilkins said of the experience. Wilkins, recognized throughout La Conner for his trademark smi...
RALEIGH — Oh, boy, did I screw up my first attempt at covering a town council meeting. It was 1986 and I was spending the summer interning at a weekly newspaper in Nash County called the Spring Hope Enterprise. I had taken newswriting and reporting classes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s journalism school and served as managing editor of my high-school newspaper. But real-world experience was what I needed. The editor of the Enterprise, Ken Ripley, immediately assigned me to cover a town council meeting. I came, I s...
Watching our new library emerge and become a reality, I am reminded again what a marvelous community we live in. Many of us worked relentlessly for years to accomplish this goal. Gratefully, many recent arrivals to the community joined in along the way. There is truly strength in numbers. Friends of the Library provided much of the support for this project. As we move closer to the opening and remarkable future of the library, “Friends” will have a new and diverse role supporting the library. We are excited! Feel free to contact us through the...
Hello, La Conner Community! We are excited to welcome Christina and Robyn Burdick-Good-Rubenstein as the new owners of Tillinghast Postal & Business Center. These lovely ladies are La Conner locals and will bring greatness to Tillinghast while maintaining all of its established products and services. Sadly, we are also saying goodbye to our beloved Renée in July, as she begins to take the next steps in her career. She will be missed but will be sure to stop by and visit! Thank you, Christi and Chris King...
Regarding your “Rule of Law or Mob Rule” column, come on man! Your lack of self-awareness and proportionality is simply stunning. Such myopic shrillness and clumsy stereotyping of Republicans is truly beneath a publication that portends to be competent and inclusive. You are better than that. Democracy and the rule of law are indeed under great threat in our country. But a reasonable argument can be made that these threats are much more resident in the ongoing mayhem released upon the American citizenry by Democrats’ embrace of open borde...
Clyde Shavers, candidate for Washington’s 10th Legislative District, grew up in a household that was strong on public service. The duty to work for your community was clearly instilled in him by his father’s service, both in the military and the police force. Clyde has served in the U.S. Navy. Like many of our veterans, his service does not end there. He has been working in environmental law, helping protect precious resources like clean water, while serving on the boards of several non-profits that address homelessness. I ran into Clyde at...
Summer Reading is here! Oceans of Fun! Sign-ups are available at the library. We have a summer reading tracking sheet in extra large treasure map format. It includes all of our program information, summer reading book suggestions and details of activities on the following days: June 27 1:00pm–2:30pm - Sea Stars, Sea Urchins and Sea Biscuits July 4 11:30pm–12:30pm - March in the 4th of July Parade July 9 12:30pm–2:00pm - A Whale at Scale! July 16 12:30pm–2:00pm - Watercolor Salt Painting Stop by and see us! Construction...
Conner Frederick Whitlock graduated magna cum laude from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York with a Bachelor of Science in aeronautical engineering in May. He earned a U.S. Navy commission as a student naval aviator. He has been awarded a Shoemaker Scholarship and will enroll for a master’s degree in space systems engineering at Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. His parents are Daniel (a colonel in Army Reserve) and Laura Whitlock of Auburn, Washington. His g...
If the Town of La Conner’s $539,325 proposal for developing the Maple Avenue park at Talbott Street is approved, funds will be awarded next June. Town Administrator Scott Thomas provided the Weekly News a $491,220 preliminary costs list developed in April for the grant, noting that it was not a complete budget and that inflation cushions and 12% in soft costs for engineering and permit fees were not included. The budget has 11 segments of line items, with an overhead shade sail, the most interesting feature and most expensive, at $81,500, 1...
Kurt Bassford quietly goes about his business each day – whether at work, tending to family obligations or lending a hand to friends and relatives – but his example doesn’t go unnoticed at Swinomish or in La Conner. A 1976 La Conner High School alum who works for Dunlap Towing and as a commercial fisherman, Bassford twice has received honors voted by the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community for his commitment to maintaining a healthy and sober lifestyle. His plaques are displayed at t...
Preschool is coming back to the La Conner campus by popular demand. The La Conner School Board on June 13 approved the return of a district preschool program this fall on a one-year trial basis after members were assured it would be supported by outside funding sources and not dip into a K-12 budget projected to be tight due to declining enrollment. Board members gave the green light for a 15-student, four days per week, morning only campus preschool staffed by one teacher and a paraprofessional. The decision followed an impassioned...
It’s rhubarb season. I let mine grow until there is a special occasion. Then I bake a dessert to enjoy with family. On this occasion, it was the dinner party to celebrate the graduation of our grandson Finnegan Ellsworth from La Conner High School. Finn came into our lives when our daughter, Katherine, married his father, Camas Logue, in 2019. They moved as a family, with younger Oliver Currin Logue, to La Conner and settled in town. We share numerous family meals together. They loved this r...
Monday, June 13 1:21 p.m.: Money scam – A citizen was contacted by phone and told they won Publishers Clearing House and to send a check to cover the taxes. The citizen recognized it as a phone scam and did not send money. Caledonia St., La Conner. 1:27 p.m.: Amazon scam – A citizen notified law inforcement of a scam call where the caller was pretending to be Amazon. This type of call has been reported in the past. The citizen was advised to block the phone number. Park St., La Conner. Tuesday, June 14 11:03 a.m.: Credit card fraud...
School’s out for summer. The next La Conner School District board director elections are in 2023, but this spring the district’s school board made slight adjustments to the five director district boundaries. The 2020 census obliged adjusting director boundaries to match population growth, now over 5,000 residents. The school board voted on new boundaries at its May meeting, adopting maps that adjusted the five district boundaries distributing residents as equally as possible to fairly rep...
It seems the pandemic has fizzled as far as local plans for the Fourth of July go. The sizzle is back. The Town of La Conner and Port of Skagit have joined forces to schedule an Independence Day celebration as locals were accustomed to in pre-pandemic years. Hometown-style July 4 festivities, start with a downtown parade at noon and concluding with a 10 p.m. fireworks show, Town Administrator Scott Thomas told the Weekly News. “We’re trying to bring back what we had in the past and see what works,” Thomas said, “and hopefully be able to expa...
