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As with an Olympic marathon, the Skagit Valley Family YMCA fundraising drive is looking for a strong finishing kick as it nears the finish line. The latest strides in a campaign to build a modern YMCA facility near the Skagit Valley College campus were taken in La Conner last week. Campaign Director Renata Maybruck was here Wednesday, poised to start the final---and perhaps most crucial leg---of a race to line up donations toward construction of a new two-story multi-million dollar family...
New Jersey’s governor got burned going to the beach. Not so La Conner sand volleyball duos. Nine local players had plenty of fun in the sun, competing at the annual Burlington Beach Bash Tournament last weekend, with La Conner entries claiming top honors in the event’s Gold and Silver divisions. The Gold standard was set by middle schoolers Ellie Marble and Rachel Cram, who topped a field composed primarily of high school players. Anna Jane Thulen and Maya Masonholder won the silver div...
“It’s my paper now, but I am only borrowing it.” That line led my second essay entrant last August in pursuit of winning the Hardwick Gazette, a 128-year-old paper in the heart of Vermont. That essay sums up why I am here and what I—with your participation—hope to do in La Conner over the next 10 or so years. My goal is to follow in Cindy and Sandy’s footsteps and manage the paper’s contributors so the Weekly News is annually an award winning newspaper. The paper succeeds in part because of their participation. The paper succeeds...
A great big shout out thank you to the Pioneer Market for the loan of six shopping carts for Conner Waterfront Park to use in the July 4th Parade. La Conner Parks along with neighbors, friends and families managed to turn them into a spectacular drill team, sending the Parks’ message to all the spectators along the parade route. We and everyone watching had fun while celebrating our country’s Fourth of July birthday in downtown La Conner. Ollie Iversen La Conner Parks Commission...
Dear Editor: Cindy, Sandy, and the late Wayne Everton took a defunct weekly newspaper and made it into an Award-Winning Newspaper! Thank you. The La Conner School District, La Conner Town, Chamber of Commerce, Fire Districts, subscribers, etc. have been fortunate they had the skills and knowledge to provide us quality news coverage in the La Conner Weekly News: Each brought their respective newspaper skills and community and institutional knowledge to depict the news, charm and character of the La Conner region. Cindy and Sandy, you were...
Tuesday July 4 3:31 a.m.: Need my coffee – A person was laying down outside of the Shell station on La Conner Whitney Rd and Hwy. 20, waiting for it to open so they could get some coffee. 5:28 a.m.: Loud cough – Report of a possible domestic disturbance on the 900 block of maple turned out just to be a resident who was just coughing loudly due to an illness. 8:35 p.m.: Legal and loud – Reports of loud fireworks on the fourth of July on Maple Avenue, La Conner were determined to be legal. 8:37 p.m.: Furry friend found –...
Special to La Conner Weekly News The United States Department of the Interior on Friday approved the constitutional amendments voted on and passed in May by members of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. While the changes in the tribe’s constitution are mostly aimed to reduce the paternalistic federal oversight of the tribe’s day-to-day operations, the wording in one of the amendments – dealing with territory and jurisdiction – sparked an outcry from landowners and farmers as well as Anacortes and Skagit County government officia...
