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Photo from NWESD Regional High School Art Show winner’s gallery. Joel Bennett won Best in Show with this pointillism piece, titled “For N.”

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Wildcats win big at regional art show

Wildcats’ drawings, paintings and clay creations nabbed nine of 15 spots in a regional art show.

An image shows how the Machine Shop once looked.

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A new owner for historic Langley building

Langley’s now-shuttered 1940s-era former lumber store has a new owner.

Concept image via Whidbey Island Living Legacy. The Grace Landing Cottages development will include six cottages like the one pictured here.

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Nonprofits to host open house discussing affordable housing

Residentsare invited to learn about forthcoming affordable housing developments on South Whidbey.

Photo by David Welton.

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A snow white interlude

Clinton resident David Welton captured snow falling just a week before the first day of spring.

Nathan Welton
Photographer David Welton.

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The lens of Whidbey: From saving hearts to saving moments

Retired cardiologist David Welton documents Whidbey Island life in photos.

Photo provided. Island Shakespeare Festival is traveling around Whidbey Island on a spring tour dubbed “Shakespeare in a Backpack.”

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The Bard in a Backpack: Shakespeare troupe tours Whidbey to promote summer season

Shakespeare is hitting the road again, this time with Hamlet and a Happy Hour.

Photo by Sarah Geist. The vessel, deemed the “Pacific Northwest Carrier,” has sailed across the world to deter aggressors and ensure maritime safety since it was commissioned on May 3, 1975.

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Historic aircraft carrier floats by for last time

The USS Nimitz passed Whidbey Island for the final time before being decommissioned.

Beth Herrild

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South Whidbey at Home celebrates 10 years of helping neighbors

The organization is a membership-based nonprofit supporting older South Whidbey residents.

A map from the Oak Harbor School District’s website illustrates that a new elementary school would better serve southwestern Oak Harbor.

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School district mulls new school, various capital improvements

The Oak Harbor School District may seek support funding a new school or major improvement projects.

Tim

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Festival presents early chamber music on period instruments

“Folk, Baroque and Beyond: Airs from Three Centuries” takes place at 7:30 p.m., on Sunday evening, March 22.

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Swap seeds and plants at gardeners’ event

Event is hosted by Master Gardeners, Deer Lagoon Grange and South Whidbey Tilth.

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OutCast Productions presents ‘Alabaster,’ a southern drama

The production opens Friday, March 13 and runs through March 29 at the Black Box Theatre in Langley.

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St. Pat pancake breakfast to benefit Whidbey’s seniors

Island Senior Resources aims to raise awareness of its services with the event.