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La Conner locals who love getting free compost from the bin on Chilberg Road will be pleased to know that the program is going strong after 17 years. The Town Council recently approved a two-year contact to process yard waste from Mount Vernon at the La Conner water treatment plant. The mutually beneficial deal helps support the program that allows the public to grab some free soil amendment for their yards and gardens. “It reduces Mount Vernon’s costs and decreases what we have to spend on buyi...
La Conner Weekly News photographer and retired truck driver Don Coyote was named a contest winner six times at the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association’s awards dinner in Wenatchee. After the announcer kept calling out “the winner is Don Coyote!” somebody walked past the table where I was cheering and quipped, “What’s with you guys? Can’t you leave any awards for someone else to win?” La Conner Weekly News didn’t have the biggest haul of honors Friday night, but we added 13 more Better...
Marcia M. Chesterfield, a long-time resident of Shelter Bay, La Conner, died at home with her family beside her on Tuesday, October 11, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Born in Seattle in 1937, she attended West Seattle High School where she met her future husband of 62 years. She is survived by her husband John Chesterfield, her sons Bob and Paul and her daughter Leanne Chesterfield Pike. Services will be held at Westside Presbyterian Church in West Seattle at 1 p.m. on Friday, October 28. Memorial gifts may be made to the A...
Dan Stokely of La Conner died on Saturday, October 15, at Swedish Hospital in Seattle. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas on March 3, 1953. He came to Skagit Valley at the age of 16 and discovered Fishtown. He was a well known in the local fishing industry. He is survived by three brothers Steve, David and Tony, his three sisters Diana, Laurie and Rosemary, and his mother Mary Ann and his life partners, Jackie from New Zealand and Mary. Dan was a skilled seaman and a storm warrior, an...
There was no test anxiety for the La Conner High volleyball team on Saturday. The Lady Braves continued to stay out in front of the learning curve by making the grade at a big 2A-4A invitational tournament in Wenatchee. La Conner, the tourney’s sole 2B entrant, placed second in the Silver bracket and was 10th overall after playing on better than even terms with programs such as Grandview, Eastmont, Chelan, and host Wenatchee. “This was a true test for us,” Lady Braves head coach Suzanne Marbl...
In life, there’s often a choice between style and substance. In soccer, it can be both. The La Conner High Lady Braves, unbeaten in nine conference starts going into their Senior Night home match with Orcas at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow, are a case in point. The team has embraced a new style under first-year La Conner head coach Christian Warman while maintaining the winning tradition fostered by longtime former Lady Braves mentor Amy Freeto, who stepped down earlier this year after having molded the program into a regular State title contender. ...
