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Assessor's Office says some home values down 10% 1 Comment 383 views Kimberly Jacobson Anacortes American November 18, 2009 - 08:00 AM ANACORTES - Anacortes residents could see their home assessments drop as much as 10 percent this year when letters arrive from the Skagit County Assessor's Office.

Heritage High School students line up at the new Subway sandwich shop on campus.

Mount Vernon School Board members appear poised to place two levy issues on the spring ballot they say would not increase property taxes.

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.

Sen. Maria Cantwell's office says she'll be in the Skagit Delta near Conway, Wash., on Saturday visiting The Nature Conservancy's Fisher Slough project.

The Burlington-Edison School Board will hear a report Monday from consultant John Fotheringham.

Tolku Yeshi Gyatso leads a walking prayer chant Aug. 10 at Camp Brotherhood, where members of a variety of faiths converge in a summit annually for prayer and workshops.

Slain Sheriff's Deputy Anne Jackson has received the highest honors at a state and national level for the service and sacrifice she made trying to protect Skagit County on Sept.

A well-worn stretch of I-5 straddling both sides of the Snohomish-Skagit county line is being resurfaced for the first time in a generation.

At some point during the annual two-day, 84-mile cycling event, nearly every rider finds one moment to reflect on the meaning behind all the hours of peddling.

Bids opened Tuesday for a Mount Vernon road project funded by the federal stimulus program came in below the city's cost estimate.

The deadline for public comments on proposed changes to Skagit County's development code has been extended to July 21.

It's been one year since the law banning the use of hand-held cell phones n Washington took effect.

A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a stranger who entered her home Tuesday morning, according to the Burlington police.

Higher demand for government services, particularly health programs, is pushing Washington's state budget deeper into the red amid the lingering recession.

Aspiring young actors who can imagine themselves in the musical "Pippi Longstocking" should sign up for the Multicultural Education in the Theatre Arts summer camp.

A Muslim convert who already was under federal investigation pleaded not guilty Tuesday in what police called a likely "political and religious" attack that killed a young soldier at a military recruiting center.

Skagit County Sheriff's deputies check out a pair of culverts in Conway on the east side of Interstate 5, which they believe was the escape route used by a fleeing burglary suspect Wednesday afternoon.

Kyle Wolden of Conway listens as his own song plays on the musical dispenser at Seattle Children's Hospital.

A Marysville photographer, Ilene Ellickson-Schairer is joining Lin McJunkin in a spring art show called Photo In - Fusion, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., May 2 and 3 at McJunkin Glass Studio,18529 Main St., Conway.