April 15, 1909
Manager Frank Newman of the Anacortes Baseball club has accepted the challenge of Manager Murray of the Bellingham team and the Anacortes bunch will go to Bellingham to play a match game next Sunday afternoon. The launch Spider, Captain Fred McGill, as been chartered for the occasion and will leave for Bellingham at 8 a.m.

April 17, 1919
Anacortes teachers were granted for next year a considerable increase in salaries by the school board.
Superintendent Jennings submitted a report of the estimated cost of living for teachers in Anacortes, which was based on reports from ten different teachers in the local schools. The report covered but three items, board, room and laundry. The average cost for board was about $30 a month. One teacher reported meals at $34, room $10, and laundry $4. Another board $34.30, room $11, laundry $4. A third board as $33, room $12 and laundry $5.

April 18, 1929
Things are beginning to take shape at the Far West Fisheries, who recently leased the plant on the property formerly occupied by the Coast Fish company. The early part of the week, three carloads of machinery and equipment arrived for the new concern, and it will be installed immediately. None of the equipment used by the fruit and vegetable cannery will be used, state officials of the Far West company. Present plans call for junking of same.

April 14, 1949
Luther Kolste, superintendent of schools at Manson, Washington, will be the new superintendent of Anacortes schools, according to an announcement made this week by M.N. Holland, president of the Anacortes school board. Mr. Kolste will succeed Clifford Duncan, superintendent of schools at Anacortes high for the past two years, who will move on to the position of superintendent of schools at Camas, Washington.

April 16, 1959
Although most of the area’s farming is now for oil, the Summit Park Grange will mark its 50th anniversary Tuesday by dedicating a new grange hall. The Fidalgo area grange was established Nov. 21, 1908. During its first two years, members met in the old two-story Fidalgo School, built in 1890.

April 17, 1969
A controversy erupted unexpectedly at last Monday’s meeting of the Anacortes School Board when a member of the audience, Mrs. Stanley Stambuk, questioned the board about whether they had made a decision yet to withdraw the News Scholastic Magazines from schools in our district. Mrs. Stambuk and her brother, Tony Franulovich, apparently requested the administration to withdraw the magazine from the school system because they questioned its political “slant.”

April 18, 1979
The developer behind a proposed marina at the south end of town on Fidalgo Bay says that building the 700-boat facility will improve the bay’s water quality, not hurt it. “I think dredging there will have to clean the water up,” remarked NJ. Soldano, president of Seafab, Inc. of Seattle. “I don’t believe anything can live in that water filled with rotting wood.” The proposed marina site, a former log dump, also has been used by area residents as a garbage dump.

April 19, 1989
Whether it was a welcome burst of weekend sunshine or a ship full of sailors, “A Taste of Skagit” was a roaring success, according to coordinator Alice Perry.
“Well over 100,000 food tickets were sold by Sunday morning, and we still had the rest of Sunday to go,” the jubilant Perry reported. A Taste of Skagit was the finale of the Tulip Festival, which wrapped up this past weekend. This is the Anacortes-sponsored Taste’s fourth year.
— From the archives of the Anacortes American