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The La Conner School Board on Monday signed the latest version of a school funding agreement with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. The tribe has promised to contribute $400,000 to the schools to help ease a $789,000 shortfall created when 931 parcels were removed from the property tax rolls that feed schools and other public entities this year. For about a year, the terms of the tribal funding have been under negotiation. Last month the school board signed a version of the agreement and forwarded it to the tribe. What came back was a vers...
Now that a vandal has delivered the death blow to the pay station at La Conner’s public parking lot, the Town Council voted unanimously to replace it on Tuesday. Before the old obsolete yellow box gave up the ghost earlier this month, it had taken in nearly $19,000 in $3-per-day-fees so far this year. Council member Bill Stokes noted that it might have brought in even more had it not been broken during the recent Art’s Alive! festival. The council authorized the purchase of a snazzy new pay station from Northwest Parking Equipment Company, whi...
For the second year in a row, the La Conner Town Council voted unanimously on Tuesday not to increase its share of property taxes collected from local landowners in 2016. Under state law, most public agencies are limited to increasing their tax revenue by one percent per year – that is not a limit on individual property owners’ tax bill increases; it is a limit on the revenue the taxing entity can take in. For 2016 the town has budgeted to levy $304,000 in property taxes. This year, since there was no 1 percent raise last year, that t...
Monday Nov 16 7:23 p.m.: Oops! – A key was left in the door of a business on S.First Street in La Conner. Tuesday Nov 17 7:38 p.m.: Tree down – A tree was down onDodge Valley Road, causing a more traffic than usual taking a detour onValentine Road in Pleasant Ridge. There was a complaint that people were speeding, but a deputy already on the scene didn’t catch anyone driving too fast. 4:08 p.m.: Tree down – A tree fell on power lines nearPioneerPark andSherman Street in La Conner. Puget Sound Energy was called out to fix it. 7...
In the end, her players were smiling. And that’s what counts most for NW2B Coach of the Year Amy Freeto, whose Lady Braves placed fourth in State tournament action in Sumner last weekend. La Conner dropped a heartbreaking 2-1 semifinal match to Crosspoint Academy, whom Freeto calls La Conner’s “forever foe,” before falling 6-0 to pre-tourney favorite Adna in the consolation round. “It was not what we intended,” Freeto conceded, “but we’re proud we got there just the same.” She was referring to...
La Conner’s Knowledge Bowl Team, “Somewhat Clean,” started off the competition year with an impressive victory in their first of three district rounds last week in Snohomish. Meanwhile, La Conner’s team “Too Fre$h,” consisting mostly of freshmen new to Knowledge Bowl, took second place in the 2B division. “Somewhat Clean” is mostly made up of seniors this year and is proving to be the team to beat, as they secured the overall winning spot by a margin of 13 points — even when competing...
