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A Yakima family was returning home after visiting La Conner when their travel trailer caught fire on Sunday. Here it is shown fully involved in flame in the Rexville Grocery parking lot. Rexville owner Brian Dean filed a news report from the scene: “After shutting down the gas pumps, I tried to extinguish the fire before it became fully engulfed but was forced to back off after inhaling thick toxic fumes and heat,” Dean wrote. The mishap occurred at about 3:30 p.m. and there were no lif...
Lunch and afternoon shopping was halted in La Conner on Sunday when a squirrel chewed through an electrical line and knocked out the town’s power. Akiko Oda with Puget Sound Energy said the four-hour outage was caused by a small animal inside the undrground equipment. The outage started at noon, and continued until Puget Sound Energy workers could replace an underground high voltage electrical vault just before 4 p.m.. The damaged power box, which is located near the La Conner Regional Library,...
Time is running out on an iconic La Conner sports arena. Contractors have begun demolition of the old school gym, built by volunteers nearly 70 years ago, and site of countless epic games and events from basketball buzzer beaters to community Halloween parties to the festive flower show that morphed into today’s Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. The landmark building is coming down as part of a new middle school construction project under way on the local campus. But because of lasting public s...
Monday July 6 1:43 p.m.: Suspicious – Somebody on a bicycle was seen in the Rexville area and the reporting party thought a business might be being “cased.” Tuesday July 7 11:47 a.m.: Fraud – Someone in La Conner was reporting incidents of fraud that occurred inMount Vernon andOakHarbor. 10:10 p.m.: Trespassing – A boat owner trying to access their vessel in a secure area aroused suspicion at the La Conner Marina. Wednesday July 8 2:49 p.m.: Parking Miscommunication – A guest at the La Conner Marina parked in the wrong s...
The Shelter Bay Community will proceed with drafting a new 75-year lease with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. Ballots in an advisory vote were counted on Wednesday and the results were: 436 in favor vs. 197 against. A Shelter Bay Community press release states that 68 percent of the eligible voters approved the lease terms in an advisory vote that required only a simple majority. Voter turnout was pegged at 83 percent, with 633 votes cast out of 767 eligible voters....
The 151-foot yacht “After Eight” was visiting in town on Friday, tied up at the F Dock at La Conner Marina, where it dwarfed everything else on the water that day. The vessel, from Canada, was also flying an Australian flag. – Photo by Don Coyote...
