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A photo by Rick Collar as it appears in the 2015 Whidbey Camano Land Trust photo calendar.

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Whidbey Camano Land Trust seeks more calendar photos

As with other scenic locations, Whidbey and Camano islands don’t lack photo possibilities.

Santa Rita

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Oak Harbor aligns with new sister city

Oak Harbor has picked a new sister city from the Philippines.

“Native People — Native Places” opens Saturday to the general public at the Island County Historical Museum. The exhibit features a restored tribal canoe and other tribal artifacts and displays featuring Whidbey Island’s Native American history.

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Exhibit takes a look at Whidbey Island’s tribal history

As proud as Rick Castellano has been of the history on display at the Island County Historical Museum,…

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Native American exhibit opens

Packing 10,000 years of history into a 1,400-square foot room is an impractical, perhaps even impossible, task. And…

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Gallery closed for remodel

Sometimes, being an artist in a cooperative gallery involves painting walls as well as canvases.

A lightly spirited

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Whidbey Relay for Life campaign kicks off with high spirits, big goals

Ordinarily, it’s Les MacCormick’s role to offer inspiration.

Kim Niles of Oak Harbor has created her own licensed brand of art known as KiniArt that features caricatures of creatures

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Oak Harbor artist makes most of Internet to promote her designs

As simple as it was for Kim Niles to draw caricatures, the hard part was finding the right…

Rhonda Severns

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Oak Harbor business community excited for Main Street possibilities

Sarah Hansen expects to become even better acquainted with Oak Harbor in the coming years.

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hubbard squash king: Family crop continues through generations of farmers, consumers

Dale Sherman is up to his elbows in squash. It’s a common position he finds himself in. In…

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Oak Harbor Downtown Merchants to seek new president after shop closes

Heather Carder is hopeful that one day Oak Harbor’s historic downtown will be a vibrant shopping district and…

Stand-up paddleboarders take to the water in Oak Harbor on a January day in 2014.

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Oak Harbor chamber to highlight outdoors in new marketing campaign

Sometimes, ideas come from the simplest forms of inspiration.

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Oak Harbor Relay for Life kickoff next week

“Island of Hope” is the theme for the 2015 Relay for Life of Whidbey Island campaign, which starts…

Rich Rodgers is a furniture store manager by day and often a paid on-call firefighter overnight. He also teaches first aid and other classes at Skagit Valley College.

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Oak Harbor firefighter puts in 40 years of service and is still going strong

The cadence of Rich Rodgers’ voice is sharp and to the point. He carries a no-nonsense tone yet…