Feb. 20, 1919
The city of Anacortes must pay Miss Laura Fisher $950 according to judgment rendered in the suit against the city for damages on account of an accident a year ago. About a year ago last Christmas Miss Fisher tripped and fell on the wooden sidewalk at 18th and Commercial, fracturing her right arm above the wrist. It was alleged that the poor condition of the sidewalk was responsible for the accident.

Feb. 21, 1929
Urging members, at the regular luncheon meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Monday, Joe Chitwood spoke favoring the 10-mill levy which will be asked of voters at the school district election, in order to carry out the budget proposed by the school board for the coming year.

He stated that Anacortes school costs were lowest per pupil of many of the schools of the northwest. He advised the members that if the levy fails, then the schools will be left with but $93,000, while the budget calls for more than that sum for salaries and operation.

Feb. 17, 1949
With warmer weather setting in this week the Anacortes Police department this week again requests the cooperation of the motoring public of Anacortes in traveling unpaved streets. Because of the deepness of the frost some streets within the city may become pretty badly torn up if used by heavy trucks, it is pointed out. Persons driving such vehicles are asked to watch for the conditions of the street and if it doesn’t look good to drive around by some other route.

Feb. 19, 1959
A local welfare case is the Talk of the Town. There’s not enough in the house to feed the kids. But brush aside your tears. They’re one of sixty-seven families on the island (by actual count) that has a 22-inch, super-delux color televiz set. And some of us poor, simple fools actually work for a living.

Feb. 20, 1969
Half a million persons traveled through Ship Harbor Terminal in Anacortes last year, according to yearly traffic statistics released this week by Washington State Ferries’ Office. The total, 535,628, represents an increase of 55,966 over comparable figures for the previous year.

Feb. 21, 1979
Island Hospital’s board of directors Tuesday voted unanimously to tentatively accept a contract agreement with striking members of Service Employees International Union. But the negotiated contract acceptance does not signal an end to the hospital’s employee relations woes. Members of a group of employees that refused to strike three weeks ago have filed a petition of decertification with the Public Employees Relations Commission stating that the signed employees no longer want the union to exist at Island Hospital.

Feb. 15, 1989
Hulk Hogan and King Kong Bundy won’t be there. Many wouldn’t consider them real wrestlers, anyway.
But Anacortes High School’s Scott Matthews and Jared Lancaster this weekend will be part of the biggest high school wrestling spectacle ever put on in the state of Washington.
It’s Mat Classic I. This Friday and Saturday. A total of 624 wrestlers, 18 mats worth of continuous action in three classifications in the Tacoma Dome.
— From the archives of the Anacortes American