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Music festival attracts groovy crowd

Audience members raised their arms in ecstasy.

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Free hair styling event returns to Oak Harbor

Kids can start the school year with a confidence boost.

Photo by Luisa Loi

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Whidbey Playhouse presents “The Savannah Sipping Society”

The play stars a middle-aged cast and celebrates platonic love and new beginnings.

Photo by David Welton

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Legacy lives on in Soup Box Derby

If you see a large, ripe fruit on wheels racing in Langley, no, you’re not hallucinating.

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Portrait of Joe the Falcon

A noble saker falcon is the inspiration for a series of paintings by artist Claudia Pettis

A three-foot-long big skate was caught and released near Holmes Harbor in South Whidbey in early August. (Photo by Sarah Kleparek)

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Skates: Whidbey’s big, unsung bottom-dwellers

Some Whidbey Islanders have found skates hooked on their line or washed up on the beach this summer.

Photo by Luisa Loi

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Death doula helps Whidbey patients and families

Amy Briscoe helps the elderly and the ill peacefully transition to death.

An Island County marine resource committee volunteer monitors bull kelp for a collaborative project studying kelp in the Salish Sea. (Photo provided)

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Volunteers monitor bull kelp, a key ‘ecosystem engineer’

Beyond Whidbey’s southernmost beach lies a 90-acre underwater forest wrapping around Possession Point

Glen Pearson of Clinton sands the epoxy coating he applied to a twisted and gnarled piece of maple. (Photo by Kira Erickson/South Whidbey Record)

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Knock on wood: Woodpalooza celebrates 20 years

Woodworkers are branching out with their creations for Whidbey’s biggest wood-related event.

Photo by Larry Mason

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Oak Harbor Music Festival brings big musical acts to downtown

The festival brings over 30 performers, with many nationally and internationally known names.

Photo by Sam Fletcher
Brenden Vandervort sits with a robot he built at Cornet Bay on Friday.

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Youth robot club plunges into Cornet Bay

Something bustled with the crabs of Cornet Bay on Friday - robots scouring for plankton.

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Volunteers spruce up gateway plane displays

The EA-6B Prowler and A-6 Intruder that welcome incomers to Oak Harbor look a little shinier than usual.

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Making lemonade

A little boy with big goals sold homemade lemonade and treats to sweet-toothed passersby.