Anacortes City Council members Matt Miller and Ryan Walters are candidates for mayor in the Nov. 2 election.
Anacortes City Council members Matt Miller and Ryan Walters are candidates for mayor in the Nov. 2 election.
Anacortes City Council members Matt Miller and Ryan Walters are candidates for mayor on the Nov. 2 ballot. Current Mayor Laurie Gere is not seeking re-election. The mayor is elected to a full-time, four-year term and serves as salaried chief executive officer of this city of 18,000 people.
Anacortes City Council members Matt Miller and Ryan Walters are candidates for mayor on the Nov. 2 ballot. Current Mayor Laurie Gere is not seeking re-election. The mayor is elected to a full-time, four-year term and serves as salaried chief executive officer of this city of 18,000 people.
The Anacortes Police Department responded to 138 dispatches Aug. 4-9.
Opportunities to meet, question candidates
Candidates differ on guidance for masks in schools; Walters says vaccines should be required for firefighters, police officers
Suffering in this community from COVID-19 is real, and hospitals across this county are on the verge of a crisis, Island Hospital CEO Charles Hall said at a community briefing last week.
bikespot, an independent bicycle shop in Old Town, has closed after 13 years in business.
ANACORTES — It’s Labor Day, and commercial diver and fisherman Chris Sparks is ready to go to work in “the greatest office in the world.”
The Port of Anacortes is moving toward renovations and modernization at its RV Park at Cap Sante Marina.
After a long absence from the Salish Sea, some Southern Resident orcas found salmon near the San Juan Islands last week before making a one-day trip farther south into the Puget Sound Sept. 7.
Photos contributed by Dianne Norton
The Skagit County Fire Marshal has partially lifted the total burn ban, allowing for recreational fires after an increase in area fuel moistures.
The Skagit County Health Department has announced the closures of area shellfish harvesting following samples taken showing an increase in paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins.South Skagit, Similk Bay and Deception Pass are affected by the closures, as wells as other areas in Whatcom, Island…
After seven years, a Comprehensive Plan for the Anacortes Community Forest Lands will soon reach the City Council for possible approval.
The Skagit County Health Department issued a health warning about toxic blue green algae at Campbell Lake and noted that some bloom has been seen at Beaver Lake.
Meet-the-candidate events this week
The local jobless rate is currently low, but it doesn’t truly reflect pandemic economic recovery, according to information from a local economy expert who expects changes as schools reopen and unemployment benefits expire.
ANACORTES — COVID-19 cases continued to climb as August gave way to September, raising safety concerns and affecting event plans.
Monday evening, Virginia resident Lynn Salvo made her way across the Tommy Thompson Trail on bike, trailed by a group of people from Anacortes as she completed the first day of a cross-country ride.
Students are back in Anacortes School District schools today, and among those finding their way around new schools are new principals at Anacortes and Cap Sante high schools.
Anacortes Police Department officers responded to a call about a prickly guest on a sailboat around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 1. Community Service Officer Zabrina Nybo and Sergeant Sam King heroically (and carefully) herded the porcupine into a dog crate as there were no other more suitable…
Skagit County has partly lifted its recreational burn bans as moisture levels have increased following two summer heatwaves, but only for unincorporated areas east of the Swinomish Channel, which excludes all of Fidalgo Island.
The Port of Skagit has new leadership after the retirement of longtime director Patsy Martin, who began her career at the Port of Anacortes and served the Port of Skagit for nearly 30 years.
August in Skagit County was one of the worst COVID-19 months since the pandemic touched down here in March 2020.
Pratt withdraws candidacy for Anacortes Port Commission
The Anacortes Railway left town Monday morning on the longest journey of its life: 830 miles to Sacramento, California, where it will be restored and someday placed in service as an amusement.
Once a month, a group of volunteers visits beaches around Skagit County and scoops piles of rocks and sand into buckets and then examines the beach sediment looking for fish eggs.
Face coverings and some distance between students will again be part of the plan this school year, but things will still be a lot closer to normal than what district Superintendent Justin Irish has seen so far.
The Anacortes Police Department responded to 103 dispatches Aug. 20-24.These are some of them.Friday, Aug. 20• A caller reported a 14-year-old boy gave a 9-year-old boy a joint at the skate park. The teen claimed the boy had actually taken a cigarette from him and took a puff. He said he nev…
The Anacortes American’s reporting in December on the City of Anacortes’s handling of public notification of contamination at its former water treatment plant was a finalist for the Washington Coalition for Open Government’s 2021 Bunting Award.
Work is underway on several significant road and waterline improvements in Anacortes.
Island Hospital’s medical personnel can now give patients in the intensive care unit access to specialists around-the-clock without having to leave the hospital, according to a press release.
A surge of COVID-19 cases in Skagit County is putting a strain on area hospitals, and three of four COVID-19 deaths this month occurred within the last two weeks at Island Hospital.
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Skagit County has launched a rent assistance portal for county residents.
The first of four public meetings about the redrawing of Skagit County county commissioner district boundaries will be held at 3 p.m. this Thursday via Zoom.
Ferry service between Anacortes and Sidney, British Columbia, will not resume before 2022, Washington State Ferries announced this past week.
A 49-year-old Anacortes man accidently shot himself in the leg while unloading a handgun Saturday, also striking the toe of another person in an apartment complex on 27th Court. The bullet entered the floor, but not into the apartment below, according to the Anacortes Police Department.Medic…
Residents can meet Anacortes mayoral candidate Ryan Walters and ask him questions from 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Aug. 23-27 outside Pelican Bay Books, and at the Anacortes Farmers Market 10 a.m. to noon Aug. 21 and 28.
Skagit County elections officials certified the results of the Aug. 3 primary election Tuesday.
Skagit County is counting this month its third-highest number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations since the pandemic began. And the month is far from over.
When Joey Hulbert was visiting family on Fidalgo Island this month, he saw exactly the thing he’s been collecting data on for nearly a year: populations of Western redcedar that are dying.
Fares are going up on Washington State Ferries.
