Two neighbors will be battling for an opening on the Coupeville Town Council.
Sue Cunningham and Tom Tack, who live in historic homes two doors apart on North Main Street, are competing to fill the spot being vacated by Jim Phay.
Both candidates are involved in the community, but have slightly different views of major issues currently facing the town.
A new park-and-ride lot isn’t the only thing popping up on South Main Street in Coupeville.
Work crews are busy constructing two buildings that will be adjacent to the new lot located across the street from Coupeville Elementary School.
Community leaders and state legislators got an up-close look this week at progress on the new ferry that is slated to operate on the Port Townsend-to-Keystone route beginning in the middle of 2010.
After cutbacks in state funding prompted staff layoffs, Coupeville school officials received a bit of good news when classes started.
An early count shows enrollment in Coupeville is higher than budgeted. The extra students mean more funding will come in from the state, which allows leaders to add staff and classes.
Federal funding is being sought to make possible a long-planned major expansion of Island Transit’s headquarters located on Central Whidbey Island.
Students past and present will have one last chance this weekend to reminisce a popular camp on Orcas Island.
A reunion at Camp Moran will take place Saturday, Sept. 26.
“Basically, everybody is invited who has been coming to Camp Moran,” said Linda Sheridan, former director of the camp’s environmental learning center.
Several island municipalities are facing stiff competition for grant funding from a state agency.
The Port of Coupeville, the town of Coupeville, the city of Oak Harbor, the Port of South Whidbey and South Whidbey Parks and Recreation submitted nearly $3.8 million worth of grant proposals to the state Public Works Board Small Communities in Rural Counties Grant Program.
Coupeville’s plans to better harness stormwater and wastewater has taken a giant leap forward.
Officials recently learned the town will receive a $132,000 grant from the Washington State Department of Ecology for an aquifer storage and retrieval study. The town chipped in $9,780 as a match.
Commuters parking in Coupeville before catching the bus to work have a new place to leave their cars.
A temporary park-and-ride lot is now open in the parking lot of the former bowling alley on Terry Road. It will remain in use until the new one on South Main Street is built.
Following fresh complaints about noisy, low-flying jets over Coupeville, Navy and town officials started working on a solution.
The result, according to town officials, is more faithful adherence to an established flight path where pilots in training at Outlying Field Coupeville can avoid overflying the historic town.
A proposed “color palette,” which provides a selection of colors homeowners could use to paint their homes, is illustrative of a number of land use issues that have sparked controversy on Central Whidbey.
A 2.5 percent general fare increase and another hit to the pocketbook of tourists and other infrequent ferry users is in the works.
But Whidbey Island residents wishing to comment on a proposal to increase ferry fares may have difficulty voicing their opinion in person.
Transportation leaders are looking at ways to lower the number of people who make reservations on the Keystone ferry but fail to show up.
To reduce the number of no-shows, officials are looking at instituting a deposit for riders who make a reservation.