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Fireworks restrictions in effect

As soon as the sun sets, the pops, bangs and flashes of light begin. Well before, and even for a while after, the Fourth of July, proud patriots will…




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Recreation: MV man will be a Tour tourist

MOUNT VERNON — Ric Landvatter has a few things in common with seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong.

The 58-year-old Landvatter…




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Country hitmaker Lonestar comes to The Skagit

Rock ’n’ roll inspired Texas native Michael Britt to pick up a guitar at age 13. He loved the music of Kansas and Van Halen, but “I…




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The Troubadour of the Autoharp

LYMAN — Four decades ago when Bryan Bowers was, as he put it, “flat-bellied and brown-haired,” he became so obsessed with the autoharp…




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