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A priest and a rabbi walked onto a dairy farm… No, seriously. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it is actually the genesis of an amazing journey that continues on almost 50 years later. Father William Treacy and Rabbi Raphael Levine bought the 200-acre dairy farm with contributions and founded Camp Brotherhood at Lake McMurray near Conway. Their mission was to promote understanding and common ground between different religions and cultures. Rabbi Levine, born in Lithuania, and...
The circa 1926 wooden yacht Bo Peep ll was motoring along the Swinomish Channel last weekend with boating season in full swing. – Photo by Don CoyoteThe circa 1926 wooden yacht Bo Peep ll was motoring along the Swinomish Channel last weekend with boating season in full swing. – Photo by Don Coyote...
She comes from a small town in rural Alaska and has worked at a school with only around 125 students. She worked in Coolidge, Arizona, another town with a Native American reservation right on its border. She even quilts. Cheryl Sullivan is the new principal for the high school and middle school in La Conner, which has seen many big changes at the school district following the so-called Great Wolf Lodge tax decision and the ambitious construction of a new middle school. “I’ve been walking around,...
Three arrests have been made so far in the swarm of burglaries that have kept residents in neighborhoods on the Swinomish reservation on edge for the past several weeks Swinomish Police Chief Rick Balam said the men arrested are all adults, and two are from the La Conner area, while the third is from Sedro-Woolley. The burglaries apparently were not all related; police suspect that there were three different, unrelated groups of thieves. Police are still investigating and believe there are more suspects at large, though no new burglaries have...
Peewee Quentin Cobbs keeps Oak Harbor away during the 2015 Youth Football Jamboree in Burlington on Saturday. – Photo by Amylynn Richards...
Tuesday Aug 4 7:14 a.m.: Not welcome – A woman who was on notice to stay out of Pioneer Market in La Conner showed up there. When a deputy arrived, she was gone so a citation was sent to her in the mail for criminal trespass. 11:08 a.m.: Drunk driver – Someone tipped a La Conner deputy that a man who appeared to be inebriated was getting ready to drive away from the La Conner Post Office. Deputies found the pickup truck being driven erratically and very slowly through town. When the driver was stopped, deputies could smell the alcoh...
