by Elaine Walker
March 3, 1949: Believing the old saying ‘better late than never’ we are publishing a few delayed pictures of the surprise flood of last month.... This view is of cars fording the small lake gathered in the low spot just east of Deane’s Corner on the Mount Vernon highway.
Feb. 25, 1909
The plant of the Anacortes Lumber & Box Co. covers a 40-acre site on the Anacortes waterfront and is the last and most elaborate establishment of the kind on the Pacific coast. During the last six months the company has spent fully $60,000 in improvements, extensions and additional machinery and has reconstructed its ocean dockage making it an ideal exporting plant, having deep water dock room of 405 feet accommodating any ocean vessel.
Feb. 27, 1919
Milton Reichert arrived home from France with his discharge. He left a camp near Bordeaux Dec. 26 and was 14 days at Brest. He was 17 months with the 10th engineers forestry group. Reichert will take up his former work with his father in the Reichert Cedar Co.
Feb. 28, 1929
This Thursday evening The American received advice from Olympia that the Skagit delegation, Messrs. McCracken, Russell and Hayton, had introduced a new bill in the House for a bridge across Deception Pass, eliminating features objected to by Governor Hartley, as stated when he vetoed the former bill this morning. Our informant states that the new bill is expected to pass without great opposition.
Feb. 24, 1949
Anacortes was gradually returning to normal this week after a near-flood condition last week that threatened to maroon the city and for a time threatened to disrupt telephone line communications out of the city. Rain water and water from the thawing ground flooded into the low stretch of land running from Stevenson and Deane’s Corner to Summit Park hill section of the highway leading from the city and running clear thru to Similk Beach.
Feb. 26, 1959
A public hearing on a proposed expansion of the Comprehensive Scheme of the Port of Anacortes has been set for March 12. The proposal, to pave the way for a new Ship Harbor ferry terminal, would increase the Comprehensive Scheme to include the terminal area and the access road leading to it from Oakes Ave.
Feb. 27, 1969
An end to the two-month-old strike at Anacortes refineries seems probable this week, with union workers at Texaco scheduled to vote throughout the day Wednesday on ratification of the company’s contract offer.
Feb. 28, 1979
Restrictions placed by federal environmental laws influenced a Canadian oil pipeline company’s decision last week to reject Burrows Bay as a site for a major oil tanker port in favor of a site near Port Angeles. “Because of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, for one, we were afraid our application might not even be accepted,” said Glenn Irving, attorney for Trans Mountain Pipeline Company, in a telephone interview. The Magnuson amendment, restricting oil tanker movement on Puget Sound, was also a reason for rejection of in-sound sites, he said.
Feb. 22, 1989
Although City officials and some citizens can’t agree on whether bed-and-breakfast enterprises are hobbies or businesses, it seems certain that an amended city ordinance that allows up to six sleeping units per residence virtually guarantees there will be more of them.
— From the archives of the Anacortes American
