What will life in Anacortes look like in the year 2050?

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Create and original digital image depicting your vision of Anacortes in the year 2050. 

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Submit your image digitally at: https://www.anacorteswa.gov/1102/Anacortes-2050-Contest, by email to Anacortes2050@cityofanacortes.org, or in...

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Anacortes Police Department Offers Fall Citizen Academy

Are you interested in spending five weeks learning about what police officers do and the training they receive? Do topics such as use of force, emergency vehicle operations, investigations, and traffic enforcement intrigue you? If so, you might consider s...

What will life in Anacortes look like in the year 2050?

1) CREATE

Create and original digital image depicting your vision of Anacortes in the year 2050. 

2) SUBMIT

Submit your image digitally at: https://www.anacorteswa.gov/1102/Anacortes-2050-Contest, by email to Anacortes2050@cityofanacortes.org, or in...

Planning Commission Vacancy

Press Release - August 30, 2019. 

The Mayor has issued the following Press Release: Planning Commission Vacancy Press Release.

Thank you to 2019 Fireworks Donors!

Thanks to all who donated to this year's fireworks show.  The complete 2019 donor listing is available here.

2020 Tourism Promotion Funds Availability

The City is soliciting proposals for tourism promotion grants, which are funded by lodging tax revenue.

State law allows the City to spend lodging tax revenue on:

• tourism marketing;
• the marketing and operations of special events and festivals designed to att...

GUEMES CHANNEL TRAIL REPAIR UPDATE

The week of August 12^th Parks Maintenance Staff began delivering rock to the phases I and VII storm damaged areas of the trail with City dump trucks. A Parks Staff operator used an excavator to place the rocks, along with the assistance of co-workers on t...

Anacortes High School Green Club at Guemes Channel Trail

The Anacortes High School Green Club celebrates a morning of GCT plant and tree inventorying in front of the La Merced

Fidalgo Island Naturalist Denise Crowe speaks to a GCT community hike group in early June

Citizen Police Academy

Are you interested in spending five weeks learning about what police officers do and the training they receive? Do topics such as use of force, emergency vehicle operations, investigations, and traffic enforcement intrigue you? If so, you might consider s...

Cascade Natural Gas pipeline replacement

WSDOT long-range planning process

Get involved in Washington state Department of Transportation's long-range planning process by taking a survey, subscribing to get the latest news and finding about presentations at DOT's blogspot: 

https://wsdotblog.blogspot.com/2019/04/walk-roll...

PHASE III FIBER TELEMETRY DEPLOYMENT

The City of Anacortes is beginning Phase III of the Fiber Deployment in the City of Anacortes. Phase III of our fiber optic telemetry deployment, installs 28,000 lineal feet of buried fiber optic cable and approximately 500 feet aerial fiber optic cable. ...

City and Skagit Land Trust working to update conservation easement program

When the Conservation Easement Program (CEP) was created in 1999 to protect the Community Forest Lands from logging, mining or commercial development, the City worked with Skagit Land Trust and the Friends of the Forest to make it a success.   Th...

Movie in the Park

Anacortes Parks and Recreation is holding its annual Movie in the Park event August 29th at dusk. Come out and enjoy Incredibles 2 at Storvik Park at approximately 8:30 pm. This free event will provide small bags of popcorn to 200 attendees

Jazz Performers at Open Streets

Thank you to the Manieri Committee at the Anacortes Public Library for supporting local jazz musicians The Groove Crew and Ben Starner who performed on August 25th during Open Streets. All of the artists who performed this year are Anacortes locals with T...

Buskerfest 2019

Please join us in downtown Anacortes this Sunday, August 25^th from 11am to 2pm for Buskerfest. Jazz musician Ben Starner will be performing at 5^th and Commercial and Anacortes High School jazz artists the Groove Crew will be performing at 9^th and Commerci...

GUEMES CHANNEL TRAIL REPAIR UPDATE

The week of August 12^th Parks Maintenance Staff began delivering rock to the phases I and VII storm damaged areas of the trail with City dump trucks. A Parks Staff operator used an excavator to place the rocks, along with the assistance of co-workers on t...

Thompson Trail 50,000 Users Strong in 2019

A new trail counter on the Thompson Trail has shown us how popular the trail is with city residents and guests.  Just over 50,000 users have been counted on the trail near the trestle since it was installed 8 months ago.  Keep walking (a...

Guemes Channel Trail Update

Thank you for your patience this week while we started repairing damage caused by winter storms on the Guemes Channel Trail.   Next week crews will be back to repair the trail surface and prepare the planting areas along the shoreline.  ...

Bike Skills Course Proposal

Bike Skills Course Proposal

The Parks and Recreation Department and Forest Advisory Board are weighing the pros and cons of locating a bike skills course at the old city dump off trail #10 in the Community Forest Lands.  At public meetings since M...

Heart Lake 2018 Alum Treatment Report

2018 Heart Lake Alum Report

Warning signs in Anacortes Community Forest Lands

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

December 26, 2017 - Anacortes, WA - The
City of Anacortes has posted Warning signs on four trails in the CommunityForest Lands to alert trail users that there is a wild animal refuge in
unincorporated Skagit County.  The ...