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On September 2, 2008, 28-year-old Isaac Zamora killed six people (including one sheriff's deputy) and wounded two more on a shooting rampage in Skagit County, Washington, United States. The incident began when Skagit County Sheriff's Deputy Anne Jackson responded to a call at Zamora's home in Alger. Zamora shot Jackson and then left the residence.
Skagit County / ˈ s k æ dʒ ɪ t / is a county in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, the population was 129,523. [1] The county seat and largest city is Mount Vernon. [2] The county was formed in 1883 from Whatcom County [3] and is named for the Skagit Indian tribe, which has been indigenous to the area prior to European ...
Skagit and Clallam counties also experienced major flooding events. [86] The Skagit River crested at 36.98 feet (11.27 m), near a record of 37.4 feet (11.4 m) set in 1990, but was held back in Mount Vernon by a downtown flood barrier installed in 2016. [87] The town of Hamilton was evacuated to shelters operated by the Red Cross on November 15 ...
I-5 - Skagit River Bridge Replacement (and detour), Washington State Department of Transportation KING 5 News (May 24, 2013), "I-5 bridge collapse captured on security video Security video of bridge collapse" , KING-TV , Associated Press, archived from the original on May 26, 2013 , retrieved May 24, 2013 {{ citation }} : CS1 maint: numeric ...
The two Whatcom County Sheriff’s deputies who were shot in the face while responding to a neighborhood dispute in Peaceful Valley in February have updated their civil lawsuit against the man who ...
Mount Vernon is the county seat of and the most populous city in Skagit County, Washington, United States.A central location in the Skagit River Valley, the city is located 51 miles (82 km) south of the U.S.–Canada border and 60 miles [97 km] north of Seattle.
The Skagit News was founded in 1884 as a weekly newspaper. [3] In 1922, it was renamed to the Mount Vernon Herald and transitioned to daily circulation. [4]In 1924, the paper's publisher M. J. Beaumont was assaulted in his office by monument maker D. Frets, who was upset about paper's criticisms on the work done on the cornerstone of the new courthouse.
Several local musical groups, including the Fidalgo Youth Symphony [3] and the Skagit Valley Chorale, bring together local amateur musicians from across the Skagit Valley. . In 2020, the Skagit Valley Chorale made international headlines during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States when an infected person attended a choir rehearsal, before COVID-19 was known to be spreading in the local ...