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Clinton man finds skull in storage unit
A Whidbey Island picker’s score of a lifetime came with an unexpected and rather grisly discovery — an…
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Coupeville man gets 30 months for child porn
A Coupeville man was sentenced to two and half years in prison on Monday for having child pornography.
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Former county commissioner Dick Caldwell dies at 83
Dick Caldwell, a former Island County commissioner and conservative voice on Whidbey, has died.
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Flat Earth: from skeptic to believer
South Whidbey grad Mark Sargent has been known for many things. Once it was for homemade fireworks. Another…
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‘Suspicious’ fire destroys Honeymoon Bay home
Justin Burnett/The Record — South Whidbey Fire/EMS firefighters work to extinguish a house fire on Honeymoon Bay Road…
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Macklemore walks away from head-on collision on Whidbey
Grammy Award-winning performer Macklemore was uninjured in a head-on collision on Whidbey. The other driver is suspected of…
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Attic fire closes Senior Thrift in Freeland
Senior Thrift in Freeland is closed due to a fire that broke out in the store this past…
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South end in running as ‘nicest place to live’
Reader’s Digest Magazine has named South Whidbey a finalist in its Nicest Places to Live in America 2017…
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Pup falls off bluff, survives to wag tail again
A stranded pooch named “Chunk” was rescued from the side of a massive bluff in Clinton earlier this…
Business
Nichols launches National Geographic Quest cruise boat
Holmes Harbor accepted Nichols Brothers Boat Builders latest contribution to the maritime world this week, a 239-foot cruise…
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Greenbank man hopes to be Seattle mayor
Fifteen years ago, Thom Gunn wrote a column for the Seattle Times musing that if he were “king”…
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Status of gray whale hit by boat unknown
The fate of gray whale struck by a powerboat in Saratoga Passage this weekend remains a bit of…
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$15.4-million highway repaving project begins this summer
Orange traffic cones are up along parts of State Highway 525 — and so are new light-mounted cameras.