Sedro-Woolley News

With all the months of debate at past meetings on the record, the Anacortes City Council on Monday, without further comment, approved the 2010 city budget with a 1 percent general fund property tax increase, as well as the 2009 Anacortes Parks and Recreation Comprehensive Plan and 2009 Anacortes Community Forest Lands Comprehensive Plan.

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

The Everett police officer charged with manslaughter for shooting a drunken driving suspect pleaded not guilty in Snohomish County Superior Court.

The divorce of a Sedro-Woolley couple has exotic pet enthusiasts scrambling to find two Siberian tigers a new home.

The Skagit County Health Department has reopened its flu vaccine clinic today with the arrival of a shipment of H1N1 vaccine.

Boeing's decision to move its second 787 line to a plant in South Carolina could have a domino effect on the local economy as it ripples into counties surrounding the Everett plant, local legislators said.

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

Posted by: Sedro Woolley School District Phone: 360-855-1694 Email: Website: Cascade Middle School 8th Grade student, Isaac Swenson, finished his cross country season by setting a new record for his school.

A young woman with possible amnesia found outside a Manhattan youth shelter near Times Square may soon be reunited with her father.

Jillian Annette Johnson and Travis Wade Gieger were married in an afternoon ceremony Saturday, June 20, 2009, at La Conner Flats in Mount Vernon.

The trek to Blue Lake is short and sweet. This could very well be the last foray of the season into the North Cascades backcountry.

Alberta Sanders Hammond marked her 100th birthday Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. A special celebration was held with family and friends that afternoon at the Life Care Center of Skagit Valley in Sedro-Woolley. Hammond's daughter is Shirley Hammond-Fagan of Mount Vernon.

The item of the week comes -- once again -- from the Anacortes American's weekly police blotter.

The smell of marijuana and freshly baked brownies seeped from a home as police officers arrived Thursday morning with a search warrant.

A convicted sex offender who shot at a police officer in 1995 is in trouble again, this time suspected of extorting an acquaintance and trying to pull a gun on police who came to arrest him at a motel Tuesday, Sedro-Woolley Police Chief Doug Wood said.

With the fall chill setting in, the City Council will consider $47,000 in snow removal equipment purchases Wednesday.

For a delicious taste of fall, why not take a drive north to Sedro Woolley, home of one of the country's top-rated apple picking farms.

Fall is here, and yet many people have to wonder: Where have are all those brilliant gold, yellow and orange leaves been? Local botanists agree that the leaves are a little late in turning this year.

Get the Flash Player to see this player. Scott Terrell A mechanized tree planting device known as the "stinger" injects trees into the area around Hansen Creek north of Highway 20 and west of Fruitdale Road, which is being restored as a floodplain.

Sedro Woolley, The NWRC is holding a coat drive through the month of October in Sedro Woolley.