A great big “thank you” to South Whidbey Community businesses for their support and donations for our recent picnic raffle. On July 24, we celebrated… Continue reading
Editor, I was not surprised by the article, “Spate of officers leaving Whidbey,” and the following letter indicates why I was not surprised. First of… Continue reading
Editor, I read in the Saturday newspaper about the Island County Commissioners approving an extra $2,880 for eligible employees who worked during COVID-19 from Aug.… Continue reading
Editor, Regarding history and the Black Lives Matter banner and United Student Leaders, or USL. After George Floyd, I wrote a free-form poem of U.S.… Continue reading
Editor, According to the Aug. 13 Whidbey News-Times, Jessica Thompson, who is running for the Oak Harbor School Board, announced at the last school board… Continue reading
Editor This letter is in response to two letters in the paper dated August 18th. The first, Sharing views of anti-masker is ‘irresponsible’ by Fred… Continue reading
Editor, I have had a knot in my stomach since Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan. I remember the fall of Saigon… Continue reading
Editor, The shame with the war in Afghanistan is not just in the way it ended, but also in how it was started and allowed… Continue reading
Editor, This letter is in response to Jill Smith’s letter to the editor in the Aug. 14 edition of the South Whidbey Record. Mrs. Smith,… Continue reading
Editor, Reporter Kira Erickson’s coverage of Dave Parent’s retirement was a treat for me to read. I would like to add a couple of important… Continue reading
Editor, The publication of Fred Wilfred’s letter to the editor in which he disparages mask wearing for helping to prevent COVID spread is an egregious… Continue reading
Editor, Over and over we hear the mainstream media, our president, the governor and local government tell us we need to “follow the science.” The… Continue reading
Editor, Only 15 years ago Al Gore warned us about consequences from our planet’s warming. He was mocked as being a babbling baboon. Critics claimed… Continue reading
Editor, In 1972, I had a college class entitled “crisis biology” in which we were given a study that said, “at the current level of… Continue reading
Editor, I am deeply disturbed and disgusted by the smiling faces of firefighters at a recent house fire here on South Whidbey. My friend showed… Continue reading
Editor, If everyone had masked up, social distanced and gotten vaccinated, this pandemic would be over now. What should be the response of those of… Continue reading
Editor, Thinking out loud here, our border is being over burdened by over 1 million many of whom have covid according to reports, but yet… Continue reading
Editor, I was checking out groceries at Safeway on Tuesday. The clerk took a moment to take a sip of water. He was clearly, extremely… Continue reading
Editor, The birth of our first grandchild last week deepened the commitment I made to the future when I had my two daughters. Life is… Continue reading
Editor, My copy of the Bible is 1,874 pages. Now, imagine if I had only ever read nine pages, which is less than 0.5 percent… Continue reading
