Anacortes, Washington

Johnson, a former colonel and pilot in the Air Force, founded the Anacortes Family Center and the Kiwanis Aktion Club for disabled adults. He is active with the Anacortes Parks Foundation, the Anacortes Community Health Council, the Salvation Army in addition to leading an effort to support infant care ...

Federal legislation to authorize a $75 million Anacortes-built factory trawler to work in U. S waters has foundered — for the second time this spring — in the turbulent political seas of Congress. The measure was included in a Coast Guard reauthorization bill that failed, in a procedural vote, to get the support ...

Anacortes Spring Wine Festival. Briana Alzola; 12 hrs ago; (0) · Facebook · Twitter · Email; Print; Save. Anacortes Spring Wine Festival. The Chamber of Commerce hosted the Anacortes Spring Wine Festival Saturday, April 7, at the Port of Anacortes Transit Shed. Briana Alzola. Facebook · Twitter · Email; Print; Save.

After fighting hard at the district championship this past weekend, the Anacortes High School FIRST Robotics team is heading to compete at a global level at the world championship April 18-21 in Houston. The Pacific Northwest District Championship last week went well for the AHS squad, Team 3238, ...

The Depot Arts & Community Center, 611 R Ave., presents the Anacortes Arts Commission show “Repurposed – Art with a new life.” The show features recycled and mixed media art, including works of Anita Mayer, Karla Locke, Heidi Klepper, Heidi Brewer-Peters, Edward Flitcroft, Ann Lee and Sabina ...

During his trip, Larsen stopped by the Anacortes Boys & Girls Club to get a tour of the club, hear from the Anacortes Youth of the Year and hear about some of the programs being offered to kids on Fidalgo Island. Hearing about specific programs and seeing the kids they impact is an important part of the ...

Mejak Jones of Anacortes and Christopher Leyva Vera of Coupeville, both students at Skagit Valley College, were recently named to this year's All-Washington Academic Team. The All-Washington Academic Team ceremony provides an opportunity for community and technical college students to be ...

With a little pomp and ceremony, passengers aboard the MV Chelan were greeted by enthusiastic ferry-watchers in Sidney, as the vessel made its inaugural run this season. Members of Peninsula Sister Cities Association, local municipal officials, a Mountie and Sidney's Town Crier met the Washington ...

Eight area community programs will benefit from the $17,000 raised March 21 at the Anacortes Rotary Club annual community dinner, hosted by Anthony's at Cap Sante Restaurant. Proceeds will ... For the past seven years, Anthony's has opened the restaurant to the Anacortes Rotary Club for an evening.

Liam Hastings, left, Tatum Swapp, center, and Levi Chou recently represented Anacortes at the regional spelling bee in Mount Vernon. ... Three Anacortes students competed strong, topped their school competitors and headed to the regional championship all to prove they are great at S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G.

Anacortes man charged with domestic violence assault of Lopez woman. Hayley Day; Thu Mar 29th, 2018 1:30am; News. A 42-year-old man from Anacortes was charged with allegedly breaking into his girlfriend's home on Lopez Island and assaulting her on March 9. Keith B. Pohl was charged with burglary in the first ...

Among the hundreds of thousands of people converged on the streets of Washington, D.C., Saturday as part of the student-led March for Our Lives event was a recent Anacortes High School graduate. Julia Soes, now a student at Western Washington University, carried a sign that read: “I didn't come 2,321 ...

ANACORTES, Wash. — Two Anacortes men were airlifted to Harborview Medical Center Sunday night after what troopers believe may have been a DUI crash. The State Patrol says just after 10:00 PM last night, Daniel Engan was driving in Anacortes south of highway 20 with Michael O'Connell when their sedan left the ...

A state-of-the-art $75 million factory trawler moored at an Anacortes dock is called “America's Finest,” but that name could end up being a cruel irony for the shipyard and fishing company that hoped to put it to work. The still-unfinished vessel is not allowed to dip a net in U.S. waters because the hull ...

Starting Sunday, March 4, 2018 contractor crews from Lakeside Industries will close a lane of SR 20 Spur between Commercial Avenue in Anacortes and the ferry terminal to start road repair. This work, part of WSDOT's 2018 paving project, will happen nightly 9 p.m. Sunday, March 4 through 5 a.m. Friday, ...

The Rotary Club of Anacortes will hold its eighth annual community benefit dinner at Anthony's at Cap Sante restaurant beginning at 5:30 p.m. ... including laptops for four para-educators helping special education students in an Anacortes High School life skills class, bedside charting devices for the ...

The Anacortes Chamber of Commerce at its Monday noon session was greeted with two announcements pleasing to the membership. First, that the city had donated a large tract of land for a park, and second, that the ferry committee had secured for Anacortes a year-round ferry service between the city ...

Agon is the proud sponsor of all high school coverage (recruiting, results, state championships, etc.) on SwimmingWorld.com. For more information about Agon, visit their website AgonSwim.com. Anacortes scored 249 points to win the 2018 Washington High School 2A swimming and diving state ...

The Anacortes ferry terminal is the only Washington State Ferries service that runs from the mainland to the San Juan Islands. WSDOT staff held an open house in Friday Harbor on Feb. 13 to explain their plan to build a roundabout to fix traffic congestion and safety issues at Sharpes Corner in Anacortes.

The Skagit County coroner has determined the cause of death for the woman whose vehicle plunged into the water last month at the Washington State Ferries terminal in Anacortes. Nicole K. Barney drowned, Coroner Hayley Thompson said. Barney, 30, of Everett, died Jan. 25 after her 2002 Jeep Grand ...

After 18 years with the Anacortes Police Department, Dave Floyd is trying out a new title: captain. Floyd was officially promoted to captain at a recent Anacortes City Council swearing-in ceremony that also recognized promotions of two other officers and the addition of a new officer to the staff. Officer Jacob ...

The new director at the Anacortes club started going in his home town in Oregon when he was small. His mom worked at the club in Albany, Oregon, and his dad worked with school administration there. Hunter started at the Anacortes club this month but started first working with kids at clubs when he was ...

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. — Sam Hamill, a poet and translator and the founding editor of an independent publishing company in Washington state, has died. He was 74. Hamill died Saturday at his home in Anacortes, Washington, following a period of ill health. His death was announced by Copper ...

By now A-town neighbors have probably noticed construction signs and some day-work on the Spur between Commercial Avenue in Anacortes and the ferry terminal. That will continue next week as the contractor crews improve pedestrian crossing and do electrical work. The following week is when they ...