News
Jazzing up their business plans
Music keeps crowds coming backWatching people spill out of pubs and restaurants onto busy sidewalks almost every evening, it’s hard…
- Chief check: Bowers’ first 100 days
- Anacortes News Briefs Aug. 27, 2008
- School starts Sept. 3 for Anacortes students
- Caring for Kids prepares students for school
- Finial is artistic finishing touch on Leadbetter clock restoration
- Police department gets captain - needs sergeant
- Skagit Transit proposes higher fares, taxes
- Shell’s spill plans must be fixed, state says
Sports
Sister Cities tourney raises money for exchanges, projects
Golfers from Anacortes and surrounding areas enjoyed a day of great golfing, great weather, great food and great fun at the Anacortes Sister…- Alums invited to honor AHS basketball coach Loren Anderson
- Still time to sign up for Sister Cities golf tournament
- Kids tackle trout fishing at annual derby at Heart Lake
- Soccer squad makes strong showing at Special Olympics tournament
- Athletes making their marks at schools, teams around the U.S.
- A-Buzz, Janz, Sortun, Schemmer, Swapp shone brightest in ’07-’08
- Anacortes’ greatest athletes, circa 1956, to honor coaches at alumni gathering Aug. 16
- Anacortes sports season reviews
Entertainment
Anacortes Jazz Festival is Labor Day weekend
A Grammy-winning jazz guitarist, Dizzy Gillespie’s velvet-voiced daughter, a standout male vocalist, a charismatic B-3 organ wizard and much more are…- Jazz Festival boasts eclectic mix of world-class performers
- Danceable Velella Velella kicks off weekend with DoS show
- Pioneering slide guitarist kept crowds dancing for decades
- Blues Boss brings ‘rockin’ boogie’ to Rockfish
- Benefits planned for Whitney Schultz
- Berte Olson play marks 50th show
- Adams and ‘A Perfect Day’ capture Art Festival spirit
- Landscapes, still lifes and florals featured at First Friday Gallery Walk
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LAURI MATSON, Computer Cache, Telecommuters - and you - can take advantage of remote access
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- Vince Streano: Weather or Not
- Julie Hodges Commit to Being Fit
- Hammond, Lindstrom awarded Taylor scholarships
- Lauri Matson: Computer Cache
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- AHS reunion speaker from class of ’32
- Art Dash raises funds for art along Tommy Thompson Parkway
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