items tagged with Port
April 29, 2011
Architect Jeremy McNett holds a scale model of the new Port of Anacortes building that will be occupied by tenant Puget Sound Rope. A groundbreaking ceremony for the project was held Friday morning, attended by Port staff, Puget Sound Rope … Continue reading →
Tags: Port, puget, rope, sound
April 22, 2011
This photograph taken from the hill near Grandview Cemetery shows a changing Fidalgo Bay shoreline. In the foreground is Anacortes Marina. Above is Cap Sante Boat Haven, a public marina protected by a new configuration of breakwaters. A new pier … Continue reading →
Tags: Anacortes, cap, marina, mystic, Port, sante
April 21, 2011
Welders by the dozens are at work on a variety of vessel construction and maintenance projects at Dakota Creek Industries in Anacortes.
Tags: dakota, Port
April 20, 2011
Just one month before the re-opening of Seafarers’ Memorial Park, the Port of Anacortes Wednesday posted a new electric sign at the intersection of Seafarers Way and “Q” Avenue. A Meyers Sign crew made up of Rich Joneli and Brett … Continue reading →
Tags: Port, Seafarers, sign
April 14, 2011
Port of Anacortes staff members recently toured sulfur processing facilities near the intersection of Highway 20 and Farm to Market Road. Sulex, a Canadian-based company, is almost done building a storage facility that will allow increased production. Sulex, which converts … Continue reading →
Tags: Port, sulfur
March 13, 2011
State of Washington Department of Commerce representative Lisa Wellman traveled to Anacortes Friday to participate in a ceremony dedicating a new stretch of T Avenue from 4th Street. Also pictured here are Port project manager Jenkins Dossen and Port Commissioner … Continue reading →
Tags: Dossen, Port, Wellman
March 11, 2011
Walking up a new boat ramp on the Guemes Channel are Anacortes Port Commissioner Steve Hopley, Port Executive Director Bob Hyde and City Council member Erica Pickett. The three participated in a Friday morning ribbon cutting held to acknowledge the … Continue reading →
Tags: Port, ramp, wyman's
February 10, 2011
After many months of being buttoned up on an “R” Avenue lot, the Port’s Seafarers’ Memorial Park building was returned to the Fidalgo Bay shoreline early Thursday morning. The building, moved temporarily during an environmental cleanup of the former Scott … Continue reading →
Tags: Port, Seafarers
December 21, 2010
New wharf and docks on the shoreline near Seafarers’ Memorial are visible from Cap Sante. This former paper mill site is going to be an awesome beachfront asset.
Tags: beach, Port, Seafarers
December 2, 2010
A team from Shell Puget Sound Refinery works diligently, decorating a Christmas tree as part of Island Hospital Foundation’s annual Celebration of Trees at the Port of Anacortes Transit Shed Event Center. The theme of this year’s fund-raising event is … Continue reading →
Tags: Hospital, Island, Port, waterfront, winter
November 15, 2010
It was “intimate informal” Monday night at the city library when Port of Anacortes commissioners met with district residents responding to an invitation by the Chamber of Commerce. Chamber President Mark Bunzel (at podium) acted as moderator during the 90-minute … Continue reading →
Tags: bunzel, chamber, Port
November 11, 2010
More than 200 people gathered Thursday for a Veterans Day event that started at Causland Park and ended at the Port of Anacortes Transit Shed Event Center. Guest soloist was Kaitlynn Wollam, whose grandfather was a veteran of WWII. Others … Continue reading →
Tags: Port, veterans
