A farmer digs an irrigation ditch for a nearby field. It begins as nothing more than a dirt trench, but it doesn’t take long for grass to line its banks.
I grew up in the 1950s in Tacoma. My mother was a modern housewife who thanked heaven every day for making her life easier with Betty Crocker cake mixes, Swanson’s TV dinners, Hamburger Helper and store-bought everything.
The Coupeville Community Green will be hopping this Saturday during the regular farmers market.
It’s not just time to pick out new school clothes, sharpen those no. 2 pencils, shop for new binders and zip up the backpacks.
Our state’s super wealthy social changers are at it again. Two years after their money helped make charter schools possible, the Ballmers, the Gateses and Nick Hanauer are using some of their loose millions to try to tighten gun laws in Washington.
Coupeville resident Ken Pickard is pretty good at getting folks riled up.
And he has every right to do so.
Funny thing about opinions — we don’t always have to agree with them.
Citizens of Ebey’s Reserve “spokeswoman” Ann Adams apparently thinks her whining, published Aug. 20, could throttle me back.
I have been a citizen of Oak Harbor for over 30 years of my life. I follow Island County politics very closely because it affects us all.
I would like take this opportunity to thank the citizens of Island County who voted for me in the primary election to retain my seat as Island County treasurer.
In case you hadn’t noticed, there is a newcomer to the state political scene who finished second in the primary race for state representative in the 10th Legislative District.
We had hoped by now that the executive director of Island Transit would either have tendered her resignation, or the IT board of directors would have removed her from the key position.
Reporters and editors often half-jokingly remark amongst themselves that they don’t become journalists for the money.
