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Voters will choose seven of 28 District 1 candidates for freeholders, or delegates, to draft a home rule charter for Skagit County this election. Separately, voters will vote on approving the drafting of the charter. If the charter measure passes, the 21 unpaid freeholders from the three county commissioner districts will work together in developing a governing structure, or charter, for the county. It may take them a year or more. Once the charter is drafted, voters will decide to accept or reject it. District 2 has 18 candidates; 23...
Dear Voters: The current structure of the Skagit County Commissioners needs to change. It concentrates too much power in very few hands and makes it too easy to abuse that power – no matter who is elected to fill those three seats. Those opposing a charter government, like Commissioner Wesen, say it would be detrimental to agriculture. However, a charter form of government could give us a county council of 5 to 9 part-time members. The newly elected freeholders who represent all demographics will decide the number and the structure of...
We are halfway through Banned Books Week. If you haven’t seen the display or spoken with Joy Neal at the library and have not been to Seaport Books and have been hesitant to bring the topic up with the kids at the dinner table, here is an opening: at dinner tonight say the Weekly News once again raised the flag for freedom of speech. If Constitution Day, September 17th, wasn’t discussed either, do that, too. Our First Amendment – ours, as in the Constitution is the national religion that does bind us all together – is our fea...
Edward M. Musgrove, age 89, passed away on September 12, 2018 of pneumonia at PeaceHealth St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Bellingham surrounded by his family. He was born on May 30, 1929 in Victorville, CA the youngest in a family of 2 girls & 4 boys. He graduated from Monterey Union High School and upon graduation enlisted in the Army Air Corp near the end of WWII which later became the Air Force. After three years in military service, he began working for General Electric in Richland, Washington as a draftsman. At the same time he started t...
At least two people, Myrtle Schultz and Prue Roman, watching Shane Corbane croon his way through his 90 minute set as Elvis Presley last Thursday at the Retirement Inn could reflect on having seen the real Elvis: Schultz had been a nurse at the Vancouver, Washington army base in the late 1940s and ‘50s. Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra played for the troops, too, she said. Roman had seen him in Las Vegas, though she couldn’t state the date. Retirement Inn residents, their families and guests, tow...
