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Small Business Stabilization Grant

SMALL BUSINESS STABILIZATION GRANT SEPTEMBER 2020The City of Anacortes has developed an emergency relief grant on behalf of the Skagit Community Foundation to provide funding for small businesses (no more than 30 employees) facing financial jeopardy due t...

Burn Ban - State issued Red Flag Warning for all of Skagit County

Apply For The CDBG Emergency Income Fund

The City of Anacortes has federal funding available to prevent, prepare for and respond to the coronavirus.  The City is providing this funding to the Anacortes Family Center to administer a CDBG emergency income fund. The funds will provide 3 mo...

Anacortes Playgrounds now OPEN

Causland Park Memorial Update 08/12/2020

City Crews removed the cannon at Causland Park on August 12 so volunteers could begin their restoration work. The cannon will be stored indoors so volunteers can remove rust and repair the cannon which was first placed at the park around 1960. Our goal is...

Anacortes Parks' Plan To Trap Invasive Hornets - April 14

Anacortes Parks and Recreation staff are working with the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) to place Asian hornet (Vespa mandarinia) traps in the city parks and forest lands.  The traps will operate April through October and will ...

Boat Launch Update for Pass Holders Past and Present

Reminder to Boaters: the Washington Park boat launch repair project was completed last week, and the launch was opened and fully functional on Friday, January 10^th. 

Special thank you to TransPac Marinas and Culbertson Marine for exceptional deliv...

Washington Park Boat Launch Re-Opening

The Washington Park boat launch will open with new floats and pilings at 10 AM on Friday, January 10^th. Thank you to TransPac Marinas and Culbertson Marine for the exceptional delivery of materials and services. The work of several City Public Works, Plan...

Transition Fidalgo and Friends Partnership

Anacortes Parks and Recreation is happy to partner with Transition Fidalgo and Friends, on the forest monitoring project in the Anacortes Community Forest Lands. Transition Fidalgo has supplied the citizen scientists and the City has supplied resources an...

2019 Anacortes Parks and Recreation Draft Comprehensive Plan Draft

The Anacortes Parks and Recreation Draft Comprehensive Plan will return to City Council on November 4^th for review and comment. Questions? Please contact Anacortes Parks and Recreation at 360-293-1918. Thank you.

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...