Three candidates for a seat on Whidbey General Hospital’s board of commissioners offered vastly different takes on leadership during a forum on South Whidbey Thursday.
The City of Oak Harbor is encouraging its citizens to start conserving water.
The new manager of one of Whidbey Island’s iconic landmarks is looking for people who love lighthouses.
After years and years of on-again, off-again relations, quiet grumbling and likely more than a few private fantasies of more financially profitable partnerships, Port of Coupeville commissioners this week unexpectedly and coldly cut ties with the Greenbank Farm Management Group.
Choochokam Arts Festival, one of Langley’s premier weekend events and biggest crowd pleasers, is turning 40 this weekend.
The following babies were recently born on Whidbey Island:
The hot, dry weather this year has Island County commissioners considering a complete ban on the sale and ignition of fireworks.
The North Whidbey 9/10 Little League baseball team will try to become the third area club to qualify for its state tournament when it plays for the District 11 championship this weekend at Windjammer Park.
Tyler Snavely’s strong pitching performance helped the Oak Harbor Legion baseball team defeat host South Whidbey 7-1 in the first game of a doubleheader Wednesday, July 8, then South Whidbey used an eight-run fifth inning to top Oak Harbor 9-7 in the nightcap.
Firefighters from four different agencies worked together to prevent a 10-acre brushfire along a bluff at Fort Ebey State Park from threatening the forest and campgrounds Wednesday.
This July 4 was marked by the most extreme fire danger in many years, and still, people chose to buy and explode personal fireworks because it is their “right.”
Decades ago, Coupeville opened up a state of the art firehouse. Today, the Boys and Girls Club occupies the building, providing a safe landing spot for the youth of Coupeville. The sad reality, however, is that that old firehouse is cramped and noisy and loud.
In a surprise move, commissioners for the Port of Coupeville today voted 2-1 to terminate negotiations with the Greenbank Farm Management Group.