What started as a way to pay for college while providing a local source of beef for Whidbey Island residents has slowly grown over the course of 13 years.
A tight-knit group of Oak Harbor High School alumni are reeling this week after learning one of their former classmates was killed in a car crash Thursday morning on State Highway 520 in Seattle.
Morgan Fick Williams, 58, was driving a Mazda Protege east near the Montlake Boulevard exit when a Ford Explorer being driven the wrong way on the highway collided with her. She was transported to Harborview Medical Center and Hospital in Seattle where she later died.
Movie-making twins talked with Oak Harbor High School students this past week about the process of making a feature film.
Jemily and Jeremy Jayme spent the better part of two years making a one-hour long film titled, “Imagination Thief.”
The identical twins told the students what went into conceptualizing, designing, scouting and filming their feature.
What started as a way to pay for college while providing a local source of beef for Whidbey Island residents has slowly grown over the course of 13 years.
The North Whidbey company, 3 Sisters Beef, completed its latest expansion recently by opening a market in San de Fuca that will give people another place to purchase locally grown products.
The Port Townsend / Coupeville ferry is currently out of service while repairs are being made to the Kennewick.
A steering alarm has been sounding on the Kwa-di Tabil class ferry for some time, said Marta Coursey, spokeswoman for the Washington State Department of Transportation’s Ferries Division, in an email.
She said electricians and engine room staff continue to work on the problem while the ferry is tied up in Port Townsend; However, workers haven’t identified a root cause or implemented a repair plan, Coursey said adding that the manufacturer has also been notified.
Island Transit officials are worried they may lose funding for a service that is seeing a growing number of riders.
The Tri-County Connector and Everett Connector provide bus transportation from Whidbey and Camano islands to Mount Vernon and Everett.
Martha Rose, executive director for Island Transit, said she is concerned that the money needed to fund the connector services won’t make it into the state budget.
What could be better than a peddle-powered tour of Whidbey Island? Enjoying a tour while helping a good cause at the same time.
Tour de Whidbey is a go this year after being canceled in 2012.
It takes place Saturday, Sept. 21 starting at the Greenbank Farm and covering the picturesque parts of Whidbey Island.
Thanks to a supportive community and good insurance, an Oak Harbor pizza shop reopens Monday, approximately one month after a car rammed through the store prompting an unexpected closure.
Oak Harbor’s Little Caesars, located in a strip mall between Safeway and Rite Aid, opens 11:30 a.m. Monday with a ribbon cutting and deals for pizza lovers.
Workers were busy this week renovating the restaurant.
Staff and teachers at Crescent Harbor Elementary are celebrating their efforts improving test scores among their students.
State officials have taken notice too. The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction named the school located near Oak Harbor a “Reward” school, which is given out to the top 10 percent of Title I schools in the state, which are schools that have high numbers of students from low-income families.
The teachers and staff met in the school’s library Monday afternoon to celebrate their work that was three years in the making.
Island Transit officials are worried they may lose funding for a service that has been seeing more and more riders.
The Tri-County Connector and Everett Connector provide bus transportation from Whidbey and Camano islands to Mount Vernon and Everett. Martha Rose, executive director for Island Transit, said she is concerned that the money needed to fund the connector services won’t make it into the state budget. Current funding for the program runs out June 30.
A North Whidbey Middle School student who jumped into action last year to help an injured classmate is being called a hero.
Seventh-grader Paige Jackson received a Youth Hero Award last week from the Islands Chapter of the American Red Cross for consoling and comforting a student until emergency responders arrived.
Last December, Jackson was on her way to school when she saw a pickup truck strike a student who was walking in a crosswalk on Whidbey Avenue.
Motorists going over Deception Pass will see some delays starting next week.
Work crews from the Washington State Department of Transportation are starting a two-week project to inspect the bridges spanning Deception and Canoe passes.
During the inspection, one lane of Highway 20 over water will close to make room for Department of Transportation vehicles needed to conduct the inspections.
As leaders for the Port of Coupeville continue to sort out how the Greenbank Farm will operate, another entity is looking at whether to establish a presence at the publicly owned farm.
Officials from Washington State University’s Extension are talking with port officials about ways to expand the education program’s satellite facility in Mount Vernon.
