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“There will be school tomorrow,” Katie Wigal, spokesperson for La Conner Education Association teachers reported in a phone call to the Weekly News. About 1:45 p.m. Tuesday La Conner Education Association teachers reached a tentative agreement with the La Conner school district. The teachers met at the high school library at 7 p.m. to vote on the contract. “Everyone hugged,” Whitney Meissner, school superintendent, relayed in a phone call to the Weekly News, an indication that the teacher...
Fish or farms. Why not both? That’s the approach taken by the Skagit River System Cooperative and its project partners, who for more than a decade have launched measures designed to restore estuarine habitat within the Tribal-owned Smokehouse tidelands area at the north end of Swinomish Channel, a scenic location that abuts productive farmland. A tractor worked a nearby field as SRSC Director of Habitat Restoration Steve Hinton led a tour Monday afternoon show earlier efforts coordinated with t...
TWICE AS GOOD WHEN FOR A GOOD CAUSE – Gretchen McCauley joined 30 other supporters, including husband Curt, who had donated funds at the Nancy Pearl auction for a new library at Hellam’s Vineyard last Friday night. A crab and salmon feast prepared by Maureen and Mitt Harlan was their reward. There was wine, of course. – Photo by Ken Stern...
In response to what Mayor Ramon Hayes termed “chain migration parking,” the Town Council unanimously passed an ordinance at its Aug. 14 meeting limiting recreational and commercial vehicle parking to “72 hours for one or more locations” within six months. Administrator Scott Thomas said this would “resolve the issue of the vehicles moving to other spots in town every 72 hours.” Hayes said that once the code was effective, on Aug. 19, it would be applied to an “extremely belligerent” transient parking his RV on Caledonia. Council also pa...
Our neighbors in Canada have been good partners in the fight against climate change and efforts to keep our seas healthy. However, in May Canada took a major step backward. Our lands and waters share incredible bounty and beauty. Trekking across forests and mountains, exploring beaches in search of shellfish and fishing from clear waters are all part of our regional way of life and economy. This shared heritage is supported by Washington state’s efforts to act on climate, reduce toxics, protect our orcas, improve oil-transport safety and f...
Heading into this Labor Day weekend our entire community has been given a great gift by the teachers of the La Conner Education Association and, inadvertently, by the La Conner school district board of directors and administration. These teachers have shown through their actions the meanings of the phrases “solidarity forever” and the refrain “for the union makes us strong.” The 100 percent unity of teachers, the support of their spouses and children and the involvement of their neighbors and friends is heart warming and stirring. Sunday...
Jim and Deb Fallows have written a book on small towns in the United States, finding a co-operative spirit and optimism that is the opposite of the discouragement and conflict we see at the national level. They spoke at Village Books in Bellingham about their new book, “Our Towns, A 100,000 Journey into the Heart of America” last Wednesday. Jim Fallows, a writer for Atlantic Monthly and author, and a former speech writer for President Jimmy Carter, imagines that we are in a second “Gilded Age,” like the late 1800s. The “Gilded Age” was Mark Twa...
POP OVER TO ART WALK’S POP UP GALLERY – Saturday is Art Walk, 11 a.m-7 p.m. At the Tillinghast Seeds Complex, Craig Barber will exhibit vintage silver prints from the ‘70s and ‘80s and platinum prints from the ‘90s. Locations include Washington state, Seattle, the Skagit Valley, England and other sites. Jane Alynn will show gelatin silver prints. They are influenced by early twentieth century pictorial photographers, with their subtle tonal and tactile aspects, soft focus, often strikin...
