For the ninth consecutive year, in conjunction with National Model Railroad Month, Jack Tingstad will host a model railroad open house in Coupeville.
Only eight days after Thanksgiving, over 100 volunteers will fluff out the tree limbs, string the lights and get islanders plugged into the holiday spirit.
The 11th annual Festival of Trees Gala and Auction runs Friday, Dec. 4, on North Whidbey and Saturday, Dec. 5, on South Whidbey. Proceeds benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters, which match children in one-to-one relationships with positive role models.
The first concert at the new Oak Harbor High School auditorium won’t open until Sunday, Dec. 6, but the improved performance area is already getting rave reviews.
“It’s very spacious and will easily accommodate a large choir and 40-piece orchestra,” conductor Legh W. Burns of the Saratoga Chamber Orchestra said. “I expect first class sound.”
What would happen if there was an organization dedicated to righting the world’s ills by removing unpleasant people?
Find out as the Coupeville High School Wolf PAC Theatre Troupe presents “Unhealthy to be Unpleasant.”
Having grown up in Los Angeles, Darnell Allen is familiar with the celebrity, style and exclusivity of L.A. dance clubs.
First, the good news: The eighth annual free North Whidbey Community Harvest Thanksgiving dinner will be served.
Now the bad news: So far, there aren’t enough volunteers to make sure it goes off as it usually does — like clockwork; and there’s not enough money to assure all the dinner bills will be paid on time.
The Whidbey Playhouse says it’s “homicide for the holidays,” as they present the classic comedy “My Three Angels” by Sam and Bella Spewack, Nov. 6 to 29.
Set in a penal colony in early-20th century French Guiana, the story concerns the Ducotel family, which, with great inefficiency, manages a general store.
A Whidbey Island holiday tradition returns to North Whidbey for the eleventh year, as Big Brothers Big Sisters of Island County presents its annual Festival of Trees Gala and Auction.
The Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce produced this two-minute video on how to pick a pumpkin this Halloween. It was filmed at Dugualla Bay Farms in Oak Harbor.
“Would you care for a butterflied shrimp?” the waiter asked as I stood at the edge of Lake Tahoe, taking in the beautiful surroundings my cousin and her fiancee had picked for their destination wedding.
Almost two years after Michael Harring took the helm as a first-time director, his lighthearted movie “The Mountain, the River and the Road” has premiered in national and Seattle film festivals. And the reactions are surprising, he said.
“People seem to enjoy the romance. For a couple of people, it nailed the feeling of falling in love,” he said.
James Hollett is known as “the blurr” to those who work at the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station Commissary. The 27-year-old earned the nickname for his quick pace while on the job. The Whidbey Island native stocks shelves, keeps the store clean and does whatever else is asked of him. And he does it with a smile.
Chief Snakelum could be rising from the dead.
The late chief of the Lower Skagit Tribe is buried near the Au Sable Institute, and he’s one of the features of a Whidbey Island-themed haunted house that is opening in time for Halloween at the Au Sable Institute, 180 Parker Rd., Coupeville.