A special type of person willingly signs up to run distance races, like the Northwest Passage Ragnar Relay that ends in Langley today.
Management of the Island County Fairgrounds is still the responsibility of the Island County Fair Association, for now at least.
Langley Mayor Fred McCarthy, with a snip of scissors, cut a ribbon signaling the official opening of the road between Anthes and Cascade avenues. Starting in January, the street was partially closed as crews tore out the old concrete, replaced some utilities underground, widened the sidewalks, and replaced the road.
There is a simple strategy behind Elizabeth Donnelly’s racing success.
In May, the Whidbey Island Community Education Center celebrated its first anniversary.
One month later, the education center announced it was leaving Bayview School and had terminated all of its remaining classes, workshops, lectures and seminars.
The wait for legal weed on South Whidbey may be longer than first thought.
Whidbey Island Cannabis Company lacks the proper permits to open one of the state’s first recreational marijuana stores, and the county planning director alerted shop owner Maureen Cooke five days before the new business received the state’s OK.
Small agriculture is hoping to become big business with little stands on Whidbey Island.
In a phone interview with The Record from his vacation home in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Richard Francisco said the six-story, mixed-use building plans are stalled. He chided the city’s leaders for wanting too much from him in studies and public meetings, and said that he was unwilling to scale back the project.
“I’m through with Langley,” he said.
Celebrate America went off without a hitch in its 20th year honoring the United States of America on July 3 at Freeland Park on South Whidbey Island.
Whidbey Island will be represented at the 9/10-year-old softball Little League All-Stars state tournament this weekend in Asotin, Wash.
A South Whidbey entrepreneur became the first person with a license to sell recreational marijuana in Washington this week.
The 20th annual Celebrate America, South Whidbey’s day-before-Independence-Day fireworks display, went out with a bang Thursday.
Twenty minutes of booms, sparkles and bombs-a-bursting lit up the cloudy sky over Holmes Harbor and entertained hundreds at Freeland Park. The seven-hour party, all put on by South Whidbey Assembly of God with donations from dozens of people and businesses, saw scores wander through for food, bounce houses, face painting, music and, of course, fireworks.
A couple of times a week for the past few months, a handful of swimmers identifiable only by their bobbing colorful caps, have taken to Goss Lake and Saratoga Passage off Langley.