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The La Conner School Board on Monday approved a resolution to ask voters to levy $2.5 million in new taxes on the district’s property owners. If approved in a special election in February, the money would be collected over two years, in increments of $1.25 million in 2018 and in 2019. The district anticipates its new “replacement educational programs and operations levy” would amount to about $2.50 per $1,000 of a property’s assessed value. An existing voter-approved construction bond for the new middle school is also on the tax bills. The lev...
Patricia “Pat” Lynn Doran died at age 66 on Wednesday, November 23, in Mount Vernon, after some health challenges. She was born on August 8, 1950, to Charles and Betty Keller in Detroit, Michigan. She grew up in Lakeview, Michigan and lived there until she left to study art in college. Pat met her husband to be, Terry, at age 18, while attending Ferris State University in Michigan. They quickly fell in love and were ready for an adventure. They were married in 1970 and soon after joined the “VISTA” Volunteers in service to America program...
Skagit Co. Sheriff’s Office Monday Dec 5 3:22 p.m.: Pirates – An 8-horse power outboard motor was stolen off a boat while parked near the Dunlap Towing office off ofDunlap Street in La Conner. Wednesday Dec 7 3:24 p.m.: Paranormal – The caretaker at the Rexville Grange thought she heard footsteps inside the building. Deputies checked the building and no one was found. 9:47 p.m.: Runaway – A 13-year-old was reported as a run-away. He was found on the front porch of his home onPark Street in La Conner. Deputies talked with t...
Hearing examiner Bill Nielsen delivered his findings to La Conner Town Hall at about 4 p.m. yesterday – he recommended approval of the state shoreline permits and approved the historic design review for Michael Girdner’s “Galleria” project. At the same time, he denied a variance that would have allowed the “lighthouse” feature to stick up a couple of feet higher than the 30 feet from the sidewalk permitted by town code. Girdner purchased the old Lighthouse Inn property on First Street last year after it had been sitting mostly vacant si...
Skagit County has objected to a request by the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community to turn an Anacortes gas station into reservation land. Swinomish purchased the Shell gas station on Christianson Road in Anacortes for $1 million in May, according to county records. It is located across the street from the tribe’s Swinomish Links golf course and is more than a mile west of the Swinomish Reservation. Late last month the county was notified that Swinomish had applied to the United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs to put th...
