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Their lineup has been reshuffled, but the long-term game plan for local Cemetery District Commissioners has not been reshuffled. The three-member panel remains committed to restoration of the historic Pleasant Ridge School building, which the District acquired in 2017, along with adjoining land, in anticipation of expansion needs going forward. The vacant Victorian era structure, much admired for its striking stone foundation, is being eyed as an eventual public meeting and gathering space, ideally suited for memorial receptions following...
Last Thursday Town of La Conner public works staff changed the speed limit signs to 15 MPH on Washington Street between Second and Whatcom Streets. “There were several citizen complaints about speeding on both sides of the hill and not adhering to the stop sign at the top of the hill,” Mayor Ramon Hayes explained. “They were just blowing right through.” Town Administrator Scott Thomas said the Town had conducted an analysis, required by state law, before lowering the speed limit. Hayes said th...
“There is a lot of activity,” says Marianne Manville-Ailles, Town planner, commenting on the three houses being built on in-fill lots on Centre, Maple and Whatcom streets. Scott and Francis McDade will be adding three units to the town’s housing stock: Their house is a duplex and there will be a cottage-type unit on the lot, also. The five total residential units more than doubles the two units built each of the last two years. Three new single-family residences were built in 2015. Since 2008...
By the end of October Skagit Public Utility District No.1’s almost three-mile construction project on Mclean Rd from Wall St. in Mount Vernon west to Beaver Marsh Rd will be finished. In this phase one stage over 13,600 feet of 12- inch PVC pipe replaces eight-inch water pipe installed in the 1960s, explained Kevin Tate, the district’s community relations manager. Tate said the project will “improve the hydraulics in that part of the distribution system and increase reliability and durability,...
