Amid the pea patch and the loganberry field, a few hard-working people are expanding agriculture at the Greenbank Farm while learning the basics of organic farming.
Seven people have been selected as farmer trainees in the Community Supported Agriculture training center, which started its first class January at the Greenbank Farm.
A field trip to the Interstate Label Company turned into a multifaceted entrepreneurial exercise for a dozen “Homeschoolers on Whidbey” students.
There is the saying, “All politics is local,” but it’s even more true of history.
Some historians assert that only stories that chronicle the most intimate details of everyday life, can satisfy a person’s desire to be connected to a place.
“Do you really want to know how many calories are in that taco salad?” my daughter inquired one day this week as we surveyed a menu. When I agreed the information was of great interest to me, she whipped out her iPhone and began tapping the screen. Within seconds the nutritional information popped up and helped us move toward items lower in fat.
The true terror of the 1973 play “Night Watch” compounds itself in the last few pages of Lucille Fletcher’s script.
Therefore the ending, similar to the “Empire Strikes Back,” must be carefully guarded, director Linda Walbeck said.
“The audience will have to take a vocal oath not to divulge the ending to anyone.”
Join in a community fundraiser sponsored by the Hillcrest Parent Teachers’ Association and Oak Harbor Cinemas to help defray Sydney Boyer’s medical costs.
Sydney, a sixth-grader at North Whidbey Middle School, is staying in Seattle to receive medical treatments for a recent bone-cancer diagnosis. Her parents, Chad and Mikki Boyer, are both teachers in the Oak Harbor School District.
Although he lives 300 miles away, writer David Howell tapped into the day-to-day frustrations of islanders in last weekend’s production of “Whidbey Follies.”
The occasional fundraiser has poked fun at current events over the years, and Howell looked to the ferry system for this year’s satirical ammunition.
Although we are not a family who enjoys a strong Irish heritage, we gather to eat traditionally Irish food in honor of my dad, who was born in his grandmother’s farmhouse in Lincoln Country, OK, on March 17, 1928.
For the last quarter of a century, Carol Barnes has been a friend to creatures great and small on Whidbey Island.
But for now, the county’s well-known animal control officer sometimes isn’t able to respond to as many critter-related calls for help, at least not as quickly as she once did. Barnes is fighting colon cancer and trying to continue working while undergoing ever-increasing doses of chemotherapy.
Nathan Saunders spends much of his time helping others and improving the community. In recognition of his service, Saunders was presented the Eagle Scout Award, scouting’s highest honor, Saturday in a special ceremony at the Navy’s Can-do-Inn at Rocky Point.
A member of Boy Scout Troop 4065, the 18-year-old scout earned 21 merit badges, served as a leader in his troop and completed a six-week-long service project at Deception Pass State Park.
On Jan. 4, 1851, three young pioneers filed “Donation Land Claims” on this beautiful bay, establishing the site later named Oak Harbor.
The three who claimed the land were Ulrich Freund a Swiss, Martin Taftzon a Norwegian, and Charles Sumner a Yankee.
Writer David Howell can still remember directing the first “Whidbey Follies” in 1989, the comical satire of current issues faced by Whidbey Islanders.
The Washington Restaurant Association Education Foundation announced today that for the third consecutive year, culinary students from Oak Harbor High School grabbed top honors at the Boyd Coffee ProStart Invitational, held March 8 at Olympia’s South Puget Sound Community College.
