Special meeting Thursday discusses new Maple Park

Town of La Conner park commissioners met last Thursday with landscape architect Curt Miller to discuss his preliminary design for developing the new Maple Avenue park at Talbott Avenue. Commissioners and Miller are on a fast track to meet a May 3 application deadline for funding from the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Program through its Recreation and Conservation Office.

The April 7 meeting at the Civic Garden Club brought the five commissioners, Town Administrator Scott Thomas, planner Michael Davolio and four greater La Conner residents to review Miller’s drawings and hear his proposal...