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Monday was America’s big birthday bash. But if Founding Father John Adams had won out, the fun in La Conner would’ve gotten under way on Saturday instead. Adams, who would become the young nation’s second president, was a member of the committee led by Thomas Jefferson that drafted the Declaration of Independence, which was formally adopted July 4, 1776, in Philadelphia. But, as Adams pointed out a day earlier in a famous letter to his wife, Abigail, July 2 was the day delegates to the Conti...
Some of La Conner’s oldest buildings have checkered pasts – and the Skagit County Historical Museum is airing their salacious secrets. With a walk down town, we can learn there used to be a grocery store with a brothel upstairs on First Street. Another landmark building was a place smugglers hid human cargo they brought in illegally from China. All it takes is a map and a cell phone to hear about La Conner’s colorful past in the museum’s tell-all walking tour. Completed in April, the p...
As I was mopping the library bathroom a few weeks ago after a storm, I bemoaned the fact we’re not yet building our new library. The bathroom flooding is just one symptom we’re dealing with in a building that lacks what we need in a 21st century library. In a hard rain the water backs up because of the drains and comes into the library through the bathroom fan vent. I fully expect to see mushrooms pop up in the carpet in front of the bathroom after all the times it has been soaked. The current building has a severe lack of space for acc...
Monday June 27 1:49 p.m.: Dirty texting – A La Conner resident reported receiving text messages requesting prostitution. 11:05 p.m.: Terrifying teens – A person onNorth Sixth Street in La Conner said two young men threw something at his house. There was no damage and police were unable to locate the teens. Wednesday June 29 11:49 a.m.: Charge fraud – Unauthorized purchases were discovered on a person’s credit card. The report was made from the La Conner Marina. 2:37 p.m.: Suicide Scare – A man’s Facebook post saying he w...
