Musing -- on the editor's mind

This is my sixth month in La Conner. I am a newcomer. Some 13 years ago Sandy Stokes was new to town. Soon she was co-publishing the newspaper and did so for ten years.

Folks are rightfully proud of La Conner schools. Yet Tim Bruce, like Whitney Meissner, was once new. At his start 27 years ago he inherited a very different school system than today’s.

Scott Thomas comes to work in January to a very stable town government. Many remember how chaotic the council and mayor could be before John Doyle became town administrator in 2008.

Kim Broadhead’s Stompin’ Grounds coffeehouse is more different t...