The Whidbey Camano Land Trust is on the threshold of its greatest achievement ever — raising $4.2 million over seven months to purchase 664 acres of forested land on Whidbey Island.
Island County Planning Department will present the long awaited update to the 2007 Freeland Sub Area Plan Tuesday, Sept. 14.
Sharon Dodge was 10 years old when she first heard the words “multiple sclerosis.”
They came from her father, an American Airlines pilot who died from complications of the disease just before his 49th birthday. Eight years later, Sharon herself was diagnosed with MS, but her self-pity was short-lived.
Sharon Dodge was 10 years old when she first heard the words “multiple sclerosis.”
They came from her father, an American Airlines pilot who died from complications of the disease just before his 49th birthday. Eight years later, Sharon herself was diagnosed with MS, but her self-pity was short-lived.
When Ingeborg Johnston was a teenager, she was a German nurse helping soldiers injured in World War II.
When she was in her thirties, she was a Red Cross nurse helping American amputees from the Vietnam War get their balance back in swimming pools.
And now in her 80s, she’s helping men and women online, with food and exercise advice.
It’s not simply a showcase of pretty furniture. And it’s about the furthest thing away from an Ikea warehouse. The Whidbey Island Woodworkers Guild’s seventh annual “Woodpalooza” starts this weekend, and this year, the woodworkers have a mission.
Watched by FOX and KIRO TV television cameras, the Oak Harbor School Board Monday night unanimously approved the second reading of its revised cell phone policy, which allows school administrators to confiscate and search a student’s cell phone if they have a reasonable suspicion, based on objective and articulable facts, that such a search will reveal a violation of school rules.
The Oak Harbor High School cheer squad will feature two teams this fall.
Starting a new season and entering a new division should help erase some of the negatives from last year for the Oak Harbor High School girls soccer team.
On the Oak Harbor Street resurfacing project, it would be interesting to learn why, after mistakes forced the crew to dig up the concrete sidewalk on the west side, we wound up with a cheap-looking black asphalt sidewalk that doesn’t match anything. Who’s responsible for that, and how did it happen?
Now that Proposition 1 has been rejected, the hard work begins. Will department budgets be cut across the board? Or will some (such as the Sheriff’s Department) be given priority?
A 20-home development in Coupeville remains controversial several years after it was given the go-ahead by town planners. But it shouldn’t be attracting so much criticism at this late stage of the game, particularly in light of the present economy.
Two men were unharmed after spending Friday night adrift in a boat on Saratoga Passage.