After completing her fourth, four-year term on the Keystone Ferry Advisory Committee, member Julia Hodson she decided to step down from the three-member volunteer board.
The Board of Island County Commissioners named Ian Jefferds as her replacement.
A once-popular event promoting Whidbey Island businesses will return this weekend after an absence of one year.
In a sign of an improving economy, the Island County Biz Expo will welcome visitors Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 9 and 10. Now in its 18th year, the trade fair features approximately 90 businesses from across Whidbey Island. It takes place inside both gymnasiums at Coupeville Middle and High School.
It turned out the Hurst family was too late when they tried to get their chocolate Labrador retriever, Sugar Baby, spayed. That was when they found out the 3-year-old pet was pregnant.
A road project to improve the safety of a stretch of Highway 20 where a young Anacortes woman was killed this month will begin in mid-2011.
After more than 10 years of planning and at nearly double the expected cost, the Washington State Department of Transportation will undertake a project to improve visibility and reduce the road curve of Highway 20 around the intersection with Arnold Road.
Hundreds of tourists viewing gray whales next spring will also make a stop in Coupeville, boosting business during the slow spring.
A crew from Snohomish County PUD will be working from a barge anchored off Admiralty Head next week to learn more about the site of an experimental tidal energy project.
The Central Whidbey Chamber of Commerce office and visitor’s center is moving into a soon-to-be-renovated historical building in downtown Coupeville.
An environmental education center was dealt a setback in attempts to purchase and protect 175 acres of land on Central Whidbey Island.
Grossly inaccurate accounting prompted the Washington State Auditor’s Office to declare that Island County’s 911 service provider’s system of tracking dollars must improve.
The home of one of Whidbey Island’s pioneer families is coming back to life.
After a four-year renovation project, the long-vacant Jacob Ebey House, which is located near Sunnyside Cemetery and overlooks Ebey’s Landing, will open next spring as a visitor center for hikers in the Historical Reserve.
Blustery weather will benefit local kite flyers participating in an annual festival on Central Whidbey Island.
In its 15th year, the Whidbey Island Kite Festival will provide one of the last chances of the year for people to fly their favorite kites on the wind swept fields of the Camp Casey Conference Center Sept. 25 and Sept. 26 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
A 26-year-old Anacortes woman died early Friday morning as a result of an auto accident on Highway 20 south of the intersection with Arnold Road on Central Whidbey.
Two things are for sure: The Washington State Ferry System has a new boat and crews will soon start training.
But exactly when the 64-car ferry Chetzemoka will begin service on the Port Townsend-to-Coupeville route remains an unanswered question.