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La Conner’s Cyrus Betts, with the Braves youth football program, watches the play as Matt Stone wraps up and helps pick up Stanwood’s quarterback on Saturday. - Photo by Amylynn Richards...
On a leisurely cruise back to Alaska to attend our youngest son’s wedding, we were notified that our middle son’s wife, Bree, had taken a turn for the worse in her 16-year battle with breast cancer. Bree was first diagnosed when she was 20, and she spent the next 16 years battling various forms of breast cancer and undergoing just about every treatment available. She was deemed cancer free twice. She and Zac had two delightful little boys, but in June of 2013, she died. She was 36. I decided I n...
In my 50 years working on tug boats on the Puget Sound and adjacent waters, I’ve seen some interesting things. One late night coming out of Bellingham with one barge in tow, the water was glowing. Every wavelet as far as I could see was glowing, as if it had a light bulb in it. The tow wire underwater all the way to the barge was glowing white. The barge looked like it was riding on a carpet of light. Any fish that was moving in the water was like a light bulb on the move. In Saratoga Passage b...
With 931 La Conner area parcels coming off the property tax rolls, people are wondering what their tax bills will look like in 2015. Homeowners in Shelter Bay and on Pull & Be Damned Road won’t be paying property tax to the county next year. But that doesn’t mean they won’t be paying for tax-supported public services. The Swinomish Indian Tribal Senate has formed a committee to work out a tribal tax code. Meanwhile, the smaller pool of people who will continue to pay their county tax bills could face big increases, unless the tribe takes actio...
Flowers in all the hues of autumn create a pleasing view at Hedlin’s Family Farm in La Conner. – Photo by Don Coyote...
Former La Conner resident Jack King, formal name John A. King, lost his battle with dementia and died at age 84 on Tuesday, September 9. Jack was born on August 23, 1930 to John and Myrtle King. He and his older brother Bruce grew up in Seattle on Queen Anne Hill. He attended, and graduated from, Coe Elementary School, Queen Anne High School, and The University of Washington. As an adult, Jack served in the United States Air Force, where he was stationed in Japan during the Korean War. After...
Longtime La Conner resident Larry Monroe Steinman died suddenly at age 71 on Tuesday, September 16 in Missoula, Montana. Larry was born in Mount Vernon and retired from Dunlap Towing after more than 40 years. After retirement he and his wife Shirley moved to Montana and built their home in Trout Creek, Montana to enjoy the sportsman’s paradise that they both came to know and love. Larry was happiest when together with Shirley on a quiet lake in their boat with fishing lines in the water, h...
La Conner’s Isis Gamble battles for the ball during Friday’s non-league game against Sedro-Woolley. The Lady Braves were bested 3-0. – Photo by Amylynn RichardsLa Conner’s Isis Gamble battles for the ball during Friday’s non-league game against Sedro-Woolley. The Lady Braves were bested 3-0. – Photo by Amylynn Richards...
After serving up a steady diet of triumphs, the La Conner High football team finally tasted defeat with a tough NW2B loss at Friday Harbor last weekend. Still, the 39-21 road defeat wasn’t an entirely bitter pill for Braves head coach Johnny Lee to swallow. “Overall,” he said afterward, “I thought our effort was outstanding. But we kind of wore down in the second half and had some costly third down mistakes that made the difference.” Lee and his staff knew their club was in for a hard trial against a physical, battle-tested Friday Harbor te...
Winning at Darrington is never akin to a spin down Easy Street. So La Conner High volleyball players fastened their seat belts and braced for speed bumps when they faced the Lady Loggers last week in a key NW2B road test. And while the hosts controlled the match in spurts, the Lady Braves showed they were in it for the long haul, outlasting Darrington to escape with a hard-fought four-set conference decision. La Conner broke a 1-1 tie by winning the third and fourth sets by 25-21 and 25-17 margins, respectively. The Lady Braves had taken the...
