Central Whidbey voters will consider two tax measures in February.
The first will extend the school district’s maintenance and operations levy another four years.
The second is a technology levy that will pay for new computers and other upgrades.
A combination of lousy weather and extreme tidal conditions limited service on the Port Townsend to Keystone route over the weekend.
Most recently the Steilacoom II, a 50-car ferry, was taken out of service Monday morning due to the severe weather conditions. It returned to service Monday with the 2:15 p.m. sailing out of Port Townsend.
There’s a new face in the ongoing saga surrounding the airport located south of Oak Harbor — the Port of Coupeville.
Joel Eisenberg, one of the two people who say they own the airport, approached skeptical commissioners for the Port of Coupeville Wednesday, asking the port to conduct a feasibility study about buying and operating the air park located on Monroe Landing Road.
The Steilacoom II, the only vessel ferry officials has to serve the Keystone to Port Townsend ferry route, will be out of service for a weekend in January.
The route will be closed Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 9 and 10, so the 50-car ferry can undergo its annual inspection.
With aging computers not being able to keep up with changes in technology, Coupeville school officials may look to the voters to foot the bill for an update.
What was expected to be a routine public hearing turned into a forum that several South Whidbey residents used to express their frustration with the temporary rules that regulate development in Freeland.
Preserving historic homes and the acres of picturesque farmland has been high on the minds of stewardship-thinking residents living on Central Whidbey Island.
Coupeville will soon be the home of a new church, although a proposed steeple is still stirring controversy.
The Town Council approved a conditional use permit last Tuesday night that allows construction of a church on South Main Street near the town’s city limits.
With the name for the first Keystone-to-Port Townsend ferry already decided, the naming of the second one could be more of an ordeal.
Coupeville organizations are working with a nearby Indian tribe to come up with a name to submit to the Washington State Transportation Commission to consider for the second ferry that could be used across Admiralty Inlet during the summers.
If a grant is approved, boaters in Penn Cove will have a new place to dump their wastewater.
The Port of Coupeville is trying to get funding that will pay for the installation of a pump out station at the end of the pier. That station will provide boaters a place to safely dispose of their sewage water.
After nearly two days without ferry service at Keystone, the Steilacoom II returned to service Friday morning with the 6:30 a.m. sailing from Port Townsend.
Another attempt to secure funding for a building at the Greenbank Farm has failed.
Jim Patton, executive director for the Port of Coupeville, said during Wednesday’s commissioners’ meeting that the application for a grant through the state Public Works Board was rejected.
After a decade spent growing food in the gardens at the Greenbank Farm, gardener Michael Seraphinoff noticed a disturbing trend throughout this year’s growing season.
Somebody has stolen entire crops of fruit and vegetables from the community gardens at the publicly-owned farm.