La Conner News

Library borrowing agreements, next year's budget, a 1 percent tax increase, city building codes and changes to the plan used to manage the community forest will be discussed tonight at the City Council meeting.

Ongoing ballot counts are proving it was a rough year for incumbents on the Mount Vernon, Burlington, La Conner and Sedro-Woolley city councils.

A good leader's enthusiasm and dedication trickles down. Bernard Selting is an example of how that affects a community.

Fallen Seattle Police Officer Tim Brenton was a nine year veteran of the force, but before joining SPD Brenton worked in Skagit County for the La Conner Police Department.

Officer Tim Brenton was a husband and father of two children, a boy and a girl. They're just 11 and 8 years old.

Posted by: Gallery Cygnus Phone: 206-419-3053 Email: Website: Gallery Cygnus has offered its space to Arts Alive to show artists in the Emerging Artists category.

Mary Iverson's "Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast with Containers" scatters modern-day cargo containers on the pristine shore of Puget Sound as it was 140 years ago.

Seasonal flu vaccine-seekers are hard pressed to track down a pharmacy in Island County that offers the inoculations.

COLLEGE FAIR: ANACORTES - Anacortes Home Education Partnership and Cap Sante High School will offer a "Focus On Your Future" college fair from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at Lindgren Hall, 15510 Rosario Beach Road, Anacortes.

Posted by: Anchor art space Phone: 206-919-3893 Email: Website: http://www.anchorartspace.org Anchor art space, 216 Commercial Ave, Anacortes, WA Anchor art space opens "Tangle", new work by Kathryn and Ron Glowen.

More than 10 percent of the nearly 66,000 Skagit County voters eligible to participate in the Nov.

State Attorney General Rob McKenna will speak about identity theft and scams at a public forum Friday.

Not into ghosts and ghoulies on Halloween Day? Get your fix of autumn color at Christianson Nursery's 'Fall Berry and Color Tour' on Oct.

Skateboarders got closer to having a hangout Tuesday, when the Town Council unanimously approved a lease for a future skate park site.

Posted by: La Conner Arts Commission Phone: 360-840-3826 Email: Website: http://www.townoflaconner.org La Conner Arts Commission issues its Call to Artists for the 2010 Sculpture Exhibit.

A federal judge should order Washington state to drastically increase the pace of fixing culverts that block salmon passage because nothing else will get the job done in a reasonable amount of time, a lawyer for Native American tribes said Tuesday.

The folks at the La Conner Senior Center have a new project - helping pay for a skate park for town kids.

The pesky blackberry vines were getting their goats, so Betty Azar and Larry Harris retaliated.

This weekend my husband and our boys visited several local farms for the Skagit Valley Festival of Family Farms .

Supporters and protesters line the streets in front of McIntyre Hall in Mount Vernon.