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PUMPKIN PICKIN’ – This was the fall scene recently at Dugualla Bay Farms on Whidbey Island. With Shari Meagher on the tractor, Krystle Hushagen carries pumpkins that she and Sarah Meager load onto the wagon. At right is Gus, the canine overseer of the operation. – Photo by Don Coyote...
The La Conner School District is hoping to make up for lost time. In the form of missing Pioneer yearbook volumes, that is. District secretary Connie Funk and La Conner Middle School teacher Scott Novak have begun tracking leads to obtain editions of the “Pioneer” — fondly referred to by alums as “the annual” — to replace dates missing from the campus collection. “It’s not a class project or anything like that,” noted Novak, the La Conner High head boys’ and girls’ basketball coach, who has already done yeoman work chronicling the s...
Thursday Oct 9 12:36 p.m.: Theft report – The reporting party said someone stole their prescription, but returned it when law enforcement was contacted, 900 blockMaple Ave., La Conner. 3:42 p.m.: Lost glasses – A La Conner resident misplaced prescription sunglasses. Friday Oct 10 12:45 a.m.: Dispute settled – An argument about alcohol consumption ended when the rest of the beverage was poured down the drain and everyone went to bed, 900 blockMaple Ave., La Conner. 6:14 a.m.: Checking – A caller reported that someone...
The La Conner High girls’ soccer team twice saved its best for last against NW2B rivals. And the timing couldn’t have been better. The injury-riddled Lady Braves kept their league title hopes alive and kicking with a pair of key comeback wins last week. La Conner, which improved to 5-1 in conference play, edged Mount Vernon Christian 3-2 after weathering a sluggish first half. The Lady Braves followed a similar script in their 4-1 Thursday triumph over Orcas. The twin wins set up a crucial home match with NW2B co-leader Friday Harbor tom...
La Conner High brought its ‘A’ game — and then some — to a major invitational volleyball tournament in Wenatchee on Saturday. The Lady Braves, fresh off a straight-sets win over league rival Orcas, placed fourth at Wenatchee in a field of 1A-4A net powers. “It was a great tournament for us at this point of the season,” La Conner head coach Suzanne Marble said afterward. “It really gave us a chance to see where we are.” And, for the most part, Marble liked what she saw. La Conner, the only 2B program in the tourney field, won...
La Conner residents have been hearing early morning shotgun blasts announcing duck hunting season. Even though it sounds like there are plenty of shooting enthusiasts around, town officials started hearing from people who dislike guns when a new business opened on Morris Street. Kim Wilder says she was surprised at the reaction of a few local residents when she and her husband, Brett, opened Doc Holliday’s Mercantile and Guns. Still, she said she expects the controversy to die down as people b...
