Dozens of prayer-minded folks will be gathering in front of the Island County Courthouse next week to participate in an event that has become a yearly tradition on Whidbey Island.
Island County, the Whidbey Camano Land Trust and several other entities are working with a family to ensure a large swath of property near Penn Cove will remain picturesque farmland.
The Muzzall family, the owners of 3 Sisters Beef, negotiated a conservation easement to preserve 113 acres of farmland located north of Penn Cove.
A leak prompted Greenbank Farm officials to turn off a water main Monday that supplied local businesses, basically forcing most to shut down for the day.
A rash of thefts is forcing a farm to close its stand that relied on the integrity of its customers.
Bell’s Farm, located on West Beach Road northwest of Coupeville, closed its honesty stand the evening of April 9 because of the continual theft of produce in recent weeks.
Commissioners for the Port of Coupeville are rolling back statements they made several months ago concerning a Greenbank resident’s perusal of district records in the port office while the office was unattended and the door was locked.
Members of the Coupeville Garden Club are putting on their sleuthing hats to solve a mystery surrounding a popular statue.
Club members want to know the name of the good Samaritan who recently cleaned a bronze statue standing in Cook’s Corner Park near downtown Coupeville.
Commissioners for the Port of Coupeville are apologizing for comments made several months ago about a Greenbank resident’s perusal of district records while the port office was unattended and door locked.
Commissioners Marshal Bronson and Benye Weber were openly critical of Greenbank resident Rick Abraham after Bronson spotted him examining records on the port computer.
One thing is for sure, everybody loves talking about the weather.
To give people something to talk about, a Coupeville business owner and amateur meteorologist has a weather station that puts local weather stats on the Internet for everybody to see.
After a little more than a year into her six-year term on the commission for the Port of Coupeville, Laura Blankenship resigned this week from her elected position.
In a resignation letter she addressed to commission Chairman Marshall Bronson, she accused the head of the three-member elected body and Port of Coupeville Executive Director Jim Patton of using their skills as political operators to the benefit of the Greenbank Farm Management Group rather than port district taxpayers.
Coupeville School District is currently on its third superintendent for the school year.
The Coupeville School Board recently named Lisa Bjork as interim superintendent.
Bjork, who was a former superintendent of the South Whidbey School District, was named interim superintendent last month. She will lead the school district until early June when permanent Superintendent Jim Shank takes over.
Crews have been working 10-hour days for more than a week to restore power to homes near the rubble of the landslide that devastated 1,000 feet of shoreline on Central Whidbey Island.
Those work crews are installing a conduit about five feet underground that will carry power, cable and telephone lines to the homes that have been without power since March 27. It is one of the projects underway to restore utilities to affected homes.
Whidbey Island residents and business owners came together Saturday to help victims of the March 27 landslide that damaged homes in Ledgewood.
Hundreds of well-wishers ventured to Greenbank Farm to listen to live music and raise money for the victims of last month’s natural disaster.
Gov. Jay Inslee along with a throng of local, state and federal officials got a first-hand look at the natural disaster that devastated a Central Whidbey neighborhood in March.
