The unusual sight of an old barn rolling down a street caught the attention Wednesday of people living around the Coupeville Library.
A first for the venerable chowder contest at Coupeville’s Penn Cove Mussel Festival left the community shell-shocked. After several recounts, Mosquito Fleet Chili and Coupeville Coffee and Bistro garnered the same number of votes during the weekend-long competition — earning a first place tie.
In an effort to preserve a swath of environmentally sensitive property and secure a future for its popular youth conference center, Seattle Pacific University is looking to sell 50 to 60 acres of woodland, prairie and grassland.
But before that can happen, the Whidbey Camano Land Trust, partnering with the state Department of Natural Resources, is looking to secure millions of dollars in state funding to pay for the proposal.
After more than a month of negotiations, an Oregon-based online academy decided last week to forego partnering with the Coupeville School District.
Superintendent Patty Page said Thursday morning that the online academy, which emphasizes career-based education, decided to work with a school district closer to its Portland base.
After enduring months of cold, dreary and sometimes snowy weather, the first major festival of the year is sure to warm people’s spirits.
The Penn Cove Mussel Fest, sponsored by the Coupeville Historic Waterfront Association, takes place this weekend, Friday through Sunday. The festival features live music, tours of the mussel rafts in Penn Cove and tasty recipes to prepare the flavorful mollusk.
Whidbey residents and business owners have been cleaning and repairing damage caused by vandals going wild with BB guns, paintball guns and eggs.
The BB and paintball culprits remain at large, but police think they’ve broken the case of the egg tossers.
Over the past several months, homes, cars, businesses and churches have been damaged by someone using a BB gun to shoot out windows of homes, cars and businesses.
Local tour groups are gearing up for the annual return of some popular visitors to Saratoga Passage. Gray whales are making their annual trip to the area in search of easy eats. They spend most of the spring feeding in the passage, which provides a chance for whale watchers to get a close look at the marine mammals.
Sophomores Jared Dickson and Brandon Kelley are learning the improvisational and critical thinking skills needed to compete in an experimental design contest.
Coupeville School District workers are busy replacing the baseball field’s backstop, which was finally torn down after years of degrading.
The backstop was only one symptom of deteriorating facilities brought to the attention of the school board Monday night.
The North Whidbey Parks and Recreation District is looking for help after its long-serving director resigned at the end of the year.
Craig Carlson, who has been director for the entity that owns and operates the John Vanderzicht Memorial Pool for more than eight years, resigned.
North Whidbey residents Jim and Inge Johnston want to spread warm feelings for Valentine’s Day and they’re using a simple hug to accomplish that.
The annual romantic holiday coming Tuesday seems to be a great time to renew interest in their National Hug Holiday, an event they started when they lived in Florida in the mid-1980s.
Oak Harbor resident Don Pierce is trying to find a home for his mother’s cats. And she had a lot of them.
He has spent the past several weeks trapping the felines living in his mom’s Camano Island home. They scatter and hide when he tries to catch them, so he relies on humane traps. In that time, he has captured 30 and he expects to find more in the coming days.
Mark Laska was tired of the winter doldrums and he looked to his rustic Italian restaurant for the cure.
The owner of one of Central Whidbey’s newest restaurants is hosting a month-long celebration.
It’s Carnevale time at Ciao and the restaurant, which opened last May, is providing specialty dishes and live music to mark the celebration.
