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Ayumi Tomizawa passes the baton to team mate Bryce Kuhn, for Camp Annawanna, a team from Kirkland and one of the 574 teams who ran through La Conner late Friday night and into the wee hours of Saturday. The annual Ragnar Northwest Passage relay that spans about 200 miles from Blaine to Langley. Each team has 12 runners, who each take three legs and run 12 to 20 miles in the 36-hour race. – Photo by Don Coyote...
Young members of the Swinomish canoe team, which is coached by Brian Porter, paddle past Shelter Bay on the Swinomish Channel. – Photo by Don CoyoteYoung members of the Swinomish canoe team, which is coached by Brian Porter, paddle past Shelter Bay on the Swinomish Channel. – Photo by Don Coyote...
Sunday was a scorcher with temperatures in La Conner soaring into the 90s. But Giselle Rindy-Cox and Tess Schonack knew just what to do. The girls took a dip in the channel by the dog beach at the north end of La Conner. – Photo by Don Coyote...
A suspect has been arrested in connection with a series of burglaries that have occurred throughout the past several weeks across the Swinomish Reservation. Swinomish Police Chief Rick Balam said a man in his 20s was arrested Friday and will face prosecution for burglary. Police served a Swinomish Tribal Court search warrant on Friday at an address in Swinomish Village and recovered some of the stolen property. In all, about a dozen homes were burglarized in the neighborhoods around Snee-Oosh and Pull-&-Be Damned roads and the Hope Island...
La Conner Whitney Road will be sporting new asphalt after a construction project scheduled to start in the wee hours Tuesday. Jennifer Swanson, Project Manager with Skagit County Public Works said La Conner Whitney Road will be resurfaced from the La Conner round-about north to McLean Road. Work will begin at 2 a.m. Tuesday when the county’s contractor, Lakeside Industries starts to grind the existing asphalt and lay new asphalt in the roundabout. Construction on the portion of the project from the roundabout to the bridge over Sullivan Slough...
The $5 Tuesday lunch at the La Conner Senior Center at Maple Hall will resume next month. “We have made arrangements with four local food establishments,” said center director Janna Gage. Each business will rotate the catering monthly. “We are proud to announce that La Conner Retirement Inn will prepare lunches for us on August 4, Pioneer Market on August 11, Rexville Grocery on August 18, and La Conner Pantry and Pub on August 25,” she said. The price will be $5 per person. The menu will be announced in the center’s regular spot in this news...
More than two-thirds of the homeowners who cast ballots in Shelter Bay last Wednesday approved negotiating a new 75-year lease with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. The count was 436 in favor of crafting a new lease, with 197 against. Voter turnout was pegged at 83 percent, with 633 votes cast out of 767 eligible voters. In order to be eligible to vote, a homeowner had to be a member “in good standing” meaning that all homeowner association fees are up to date. Shelter Bay is a gated com-munity developed on Indian reservation land leased...
Tuesday July 14 8:18 a.m.: Stray cow – A cow was in the roadway onFir Island Road nearConway, but the animal went home without incident. 12:13 p.m.: Burned trailer – A caller was worried that somebody was towing the trailer that burned last week near Rexville with no tarps covering it. Wednesday July 15 12:53 p.m.: Argument – A loud argument at a home onMaple Ave., La Conner inspired a call to law enforcement. Thursday July 16 9:10 a.m.: Helping out – Deputies found a pair of pants to replace a pair for a woman in La Con...
Road trips are nothing new for the La Conner High basketball program – unless, of course, it’s one scheduled for late July. And one that’s been as much anticipated as a Christmas tournament at Port Townsend or trip to Spokane in March. A large La Conner entourage will drive to Tacoma tomorrow, Thursday, to attend ceremonies honoring head coach Scott Novak as one of eight inductees into the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Novak joins a 2015 class that includes former Concrete coach John Pet...
