Living on a Whidbey Island beach can have its challenges. There’s the trespassers, the duck hunters, the wind and the large, rotting carcasses in the backyard.
A resident of Madrona Way near Coupeville called 911 last Friday to report a dead cow on the beach. The call was passed on to Erica Martell, an environmental health specialist with the Island County Health Department.
As relief work continues in Haiti after January’s devastating earthquake, Oak Harbor schools are collecting money for the country one dollar at a time.
Acclaimed panoramic photographer M. Denis Hill has captured the scenic beauty of Whidbey Island in his new book of images, “Whidbey Island, the Jewel of Puget Sound.”
Garry Oak Gallery sponsors an exhibit of 13 pieces of art from Jon Aesoph’s Oak Harbor High School class.
Original paintings by Coupeville artist Gerald Roberts will soon be published in the book “Best of America’s Water Media Artists.”
The full color book by Kennedy Publishing of Williamsburg, Va., is part of a fine arts books series.
It will feature American artists with a variety of mediums, including acrylic, oil and mixed media.
The men and women who volunteer their time to ensure the safety of the North Whidbey community enjoyed a little reprieve Monday evening at the annual North Whidbey Fire and Rescue Awards Dinner.
Raven Rocks Gallery presents the third annual “Artists in Love” show, featuring the art of Mary Jo Oxrieder and Windwalker Taibi, Feb. 5 through April 4.
An opening reception, located at the Greenbank Farm, will be held Friday, Feb. 5 from 5 to 8 p.m.
A feel-good photo that graced the cover of Life magazine in the 1940s turns out to have a dark underside in “The Cover of Life” opening Friday, Feb. 5 at the Whidbey Playhouse.
Kate Miller (Cynthia Kleppang) is our narrator, a Lois Lane-type character and Life correspondent who is thrust into southern women territory.
The Whidbey Playhouse is holding auditions for the Michael Cooney British farce, “Cash on Delivery” this month.
Directors Bob Hendrix and Melissa Bridges will seek six men and four women for this comedy. Perusal scripts are available at the Whidbey Playhouse office.
“The Body Electric,” a retrospective of the art work of South Whidbey artist Ken Hassrick, will open Friday, Feb. 5 at the Rob Schouten Gallery in Greenbank as a fundraising exhibition to benefit the Whidbey Island Arts Council.
The World War II drama “The Cover of Life” will open at the Whidbey Playhouse on Friday, Feb. 5, and tickets are on sale now.
The play tells the story of three young wives who come to live with their mother-in-law, Aunt Ola, while their husbands are at war. The brothers have each joined a different branch of the service, and a reporter from Life Magazine picks up their story.
One of the Northwest’s finest piano players will entertain and educate a North Whidbey audience Saturday, Jan. 30, at the Oak Harbor Lutheran Church, 1253 NW Second Ave.
The concert is presented by the Whidbey Island Chapter of the Washington State Music Teachers Association.
Oak Harbor had a hole in its heart this Christmas: Jessie Beeskma Eerkes was missing for the first time since 1913.
