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Art contest offers several cash prizes

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

Photo by David Welton
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.

Photo by Genevieve Ramey
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.

Photo by Rachel Rosen/Whidbey News-Times
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.

Photo by David Welton
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.

Photo by Rachel Rosen/Whidbey News-Times

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Guarding the flock: Chicken farms rely on specialized dogs

Dogs that live outside and guard livestock became a hot topic on the island back in December.

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Zeppelin Kaptian Count Nickola Lehmann (played by Matt Hoar) and Zeppelin Tours/Sales Chief Baron Phineas T. Bargun (Timon Simmons) were available to answer questions from sleuths during Langley’s 38th annual Mystery Weekend. As usual, participants of the event are tasked with finding out who among the cast of costumed characters is the murderer.

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Murder, they wrote

Love turned out to be the culprit in this year’s Langley Mystery Weekend event.

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Cross-country totem pole tour starts on Whidbey

The first leg of an important awareness campaign begins on Whidbey Island.

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Tales of the Rock

Children’s book author pens zany stories about Whidbey