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    Halloween happens on Whidbey
    By Emily Gilbert • October 12, 2021 1:30 am

    Spooky season is back in swing and there are plenty of events that promise a ghoulishly good time.

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    Photo by Emily Gilbert/Whidbey News-Times
    Tour offers glimpse of work spaces
    By Emily Gilbert • August 20, 2021 1:30 am

    T hose interested in the creative processes of local artists can take a peek into almost 50 work spaces across the island during the Whidbey Working Artists Summer Open Studio Tour this weekend.

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    Photo by Kira Erickson/South Whidbey Record
    South Whidbey vet bringing his 31-year career to...
    By Kira Erickson • August 13, 2021 1:30 am

    David Parent is accustomed to treating wildlife as often as domestic animals at his vet practice.

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    Photo by Jackie Gilbert
    Lost crab pots likely taken by the sea,...
    By Emily Gilbert • July 20, 2021 1:30 am

    The Fish and Wildlife Department has removed more than 250 crab pots from marine areas 8-1 and 8-2.

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    South Whidbey survey takes deep dive into community’s priorities for public pool
    South Whidbey survey takes deep dive into community’s...
    By Kira Erickson • April 20, 2021 1:30 pm

    A bond measure in 2022 might be another funding source for the pool along with grants.

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    Rishi Sharma checks levels in his camera before interviewing WWII combat veteran Frank Burns of Freeland last Saturday. Sharma travels the country interviewing WWII combat veterans for his oral history project and nonprofit, Heroes of the Second World War. Photo by Emily Gilbert/Whidbey News-Times
    Recording for posterity tales of WWII vets across...
    By Emily Gilbert • March 30, 2021 1:30 pm

    Rishi Sharma has met more than 1,100 World War II combat veterans to document their stories.

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    Blake Lewis, 7, at Bush Point where he threw a message in a bottle out to sea. Ruth Smethers later picked it up in Port Townsend. Photo provided by Jessie Lewis
    Writer, finder connected over message in bottle
    By Emily Gilbert • March 16, 2021 1:30 pm

    The message traveled all the way from Bush Point to Port Townsend.

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    Families like the one above won’t line the streets of Oak Harbor this year for a St. of Patrick’s Day Parade. This is one of the events canceled so far this year because of the pandemic. File photo/Whidbey News-Times
    The COVID effect: Show might go on this...
    By Kira Erickson • March 16, 2021 1:30 pm

    Here’s a list of what many of Whidbey’s favorite events are doing this year.

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    Photo by Bob VonDrachek
One photographer spotted a gray whale the morning of March 8 from the public parking lot at Hidden Beach in Greenbank.
    Homecoming: Gray whales return to Whidbey waters
    By Emily Gilbert • March 9, 2021 3:30 pm

    The gentle giants include a well-known gray that has been coming back each year for 30 years.

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    Victoria Adaus Myers, left, broke ground on a new home this week with her family, Arryn, 6, Katherine, 8, and Aaron. Photo provided.
    Family breaks ground for Habitat for Humanity home
    By Kira Erickson • February 5, 2021 2:30 pm

    A lifelong Whidbey resident and her family have started building their own home in Oak Harbor.

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