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Comet the harbor porpoise surfaces near Burrows Pass.

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Whale Center event is on porpoise

Those interested in becoming citizen scientists can attend an upcoming virtual training March 29.

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Whidbey raises a glass for St. Pat

This St. Patrick’s Day, Whidbey Island residents are in luck.

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Jeremy Kyncl of Hierophant Meadery holds an award-winning bottle of Butterbee, a popular butterscotch-flavored mead produced in Freeland. Kyncl is the speaker at two upcoming library talks, which center on bees, honey and the brews he makes.

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Whidbey Reads abuzz with sweet events

At Hierophant Meadery in Freeland, Jeremy Kyncl and Michelle Scandalis are as busy as bees.

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Tickets available for ‘Gotta Dance! Dinner and Auction’

Fans of performing art can help support the young dancers of Whidbey Island Dance Theatre by going to…

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Art contest offers several cash prizes

A new contest that promotes Whidbey Island artists made its debut this month.

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Clinton resident and artist Louie Rochon works the dough of what will soon be focaccia bread. Baking is his newest creative outlet.

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Art is all you knead

Standing in his cozy kitchen, Louie Rochon douses a sticky mixture of focaccia with olive oil.

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From left, Jake Bailey, Oliver Abercrombie, Colton Gehring, Mya Grymes and Ethan Tang play in Kick-Brass.

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Kick-Brass makes a splash

Five talented Oak Harbor teens formed a brass band that plays exuberant, irresistibly catchy music.

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Freeland concert series offers medley of performances

An upcoming concert series offers a wide variety of musical performances this spring and summer.

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From left, Gaye Litka and Katie Jones. Litka plays Gingy who shows sketches of dresses she’s worn in her life throughout the play.

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Play explores clothing as storytelling

A play about women and completely cast with women is coming to the Whidbey Playhouse stage.

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South Whidbey resident Jim Towers stands at the top of the Columbia Center after last year’s firefighter stairclimbing event in Seattle.

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Firefighters step up to challenge

A 72-year-old man from South Whidbey is set to compete in a grueling stair-climbing competition.

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Christopher Lewman takes the wheel of the Glacier Spirit for mussel raft tours during the Penn Cove Musselfest Sunday. The annual event, which was back at full strength, drew big crowds in Coupeville.

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Musselfest comes out of its shell

The Penn Cove Musselfest was back at full strength and drew big crowds in Coupeville on Sunday.

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Anabell Ramires as Lisel in “The Book of Sirens.”

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New festival ushers in one-act plays

A new festival on South Whidbey is offering a diversity in one-actor plays during the month of March

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Flying colors: Irish artist finds success on Whidbey

McCarthy has found unexpected success in his vibrant, colorful landscape paintings.