Aug. 27, 1908
County Assessor Frederick Eyre has just completed the summing up of returns on valuations of all property in Skagit county, except railroad and telegraph lines. The latter will probably have a total valuation of about $1,500,000. Total county valuation is $10,599,946.

Aug. 29, 1918
Fred B. Fulton, state legislator and a former supervisor at the Anacortes Fisheries cannery, received an unusual letter from a local boy serving with the infantry in France. The letter was written on the labels from two cans of salmon packed at Anacortes Fisheries. “Dr. Mr. Fulton: Just a few lines to tell you how surprised I was to find these cans of good old Puget Sound fish way over here in France. It was just like meeting an old friend to run across one of these cans,” read the letter from Nate Lewis, a Guemes Island resident. Lewis, a cook with the 162nd Infantry, had worked as a cook for Fulton.

Aug. 23, 1928
That the Union Oil company intends to improve their site bounded by Fourth, K, L and Fifth, with buildings and equipment to the value of $25,000 to $30,000, was announced at the city council meeting Tuesday, when C.A. Blum of Seattle, representative of the company, presented a petition asking for the vacation of a street in the channel below their property and an alley.

Aug. 26, 1948
Anacortes will go back to Standard Time again on Sunday, August 29th, at midnight, according to an announcement made this week by Mayor Joe Hagan. The decision to go back on Standard Time at that date conforms with the return to Standard Time by many of the other cities throughout this area.

Aug. 28, 1958
Upholding the honor of their waterbound community, five youthful Anacortesans report after a cruise to Kodiak, Alaska, aboard the U.S.S. Frederick Funston, that among the 185 teenage passengers aboard (from throughout Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho) only five survived the curse of the high seas mal de mer. They (Doug Richards, Phil Robbins Jr., George Hicks, John Plancich Jr. and Gary Bryant) were the five.

Not so fortunate was Gib Moore, aboard Les Senff’s Deception. Gib, the only crewman traveling with seasick pills on the trip north, did a stint over the rails in Queen Charlotte Sound .

Aug. 22, 1968
Page 1 photo: Berent Rydberg, president of the Port of Anacortes Board of Directors, starts the action as clearing work gets under way for the long-planned Anacortes Community Airport.

Page 2 photo: Congressman Lloyd Meeds snips the ribbon to officially open the multi-million dollar development by Harry Davidson, Inc. at Skyline during dedication ceremonies held last Friday at the west-end resort.

Aug. 23, 1978
Anacortes City Public Works Director Dave Ford will explain, and answer questions about, the new proposal for the 32nd Street extension to the West End at a meeting of the Anacortes Building Community next week.
— From the archives of the Anacortes American