Nichols Brothers Boat Builders will launch its third and possibly final 144-car state ferry superstructure next week.
For a single day this past weekend, all Langley residents became residents of “Bunnyville,” whether they knew it or not.
In a short ceremony Saturday at Boy and Dog Park, Mayor Tim Callison officially renamed the city for the day with a proclamation and also presented the Easter Bunny with keys to Langley. And he did so in rather unorthodox attire before a crowd of about 50 people.
To some, he’s a visionary, a champion of the people who will save entire generations from student debt. To others, he’s an unrealistic and unproven dream, a vote to nowhere.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders claimed a sweeping victory over rival Hillary Clinton in Island County’s Democratic presidential caucuses today.
According to numbers released by the Island County Democrats this afternoon, Sanders took home 219 delegates to Clinton’s 97 delegates. Sanders won by a deciding margin in each of the four caucus locations: South Whidbey, Coupeville, Oak Harbor and Camano Island.
Every weekend is the same. I turn in Friday with big plans to sleep in late. I tell myself that this time is going to be different, that I’m not rolling out of bed until 8 a.m. no matter what. And it’s gonna be awesome.
Right.
A Langley man and self-appointed white knight of open government is once again charging two South Whidbey public entities with violating state sunshine laws.
It appears a last-ditch effort by the Whidbey Island Fair Association’s board to wrestle back control of the fairgrounds has failed, and that voters will have their say on an August ballot over just who should, and who shouldn’t, own the property.
On the tails of Thursday’s spring storm, a second and more powerful system blew through South Whidbey late this weekend, severely damaging at least three homes and leaving people throughout the area in the dark.
A spring storm wreaked havoc across the South End on Thursday, toppling trees, cutting power and causing flooding in several communities.
Well, I survived Thursday’s spring storm. My seemingly evil trees behaved themselves, keeping their man-killer-sized branches to themselves and out of my roof.
It seems others on South Whidbey, however, weren’t so lucky. In separate incidents, a garage and a car were both damaged by falling trees in the Freeland area. To those unfortunates, you have my sympathies. Truly. Know that I understand your pain, for I also am a victim of tree abuse. The massive evergreens that surround my home have been trying to kill me for months.
Whether a vehicular homicide case against a South Whidbey woman goes to trial or not may depend heavily on the outcome of a court hearing next month.
Work on a project to make South Whidbey Harbor more inviting and accessible to large vessels kicked off this week with the arrival of a massive barge and crane.
Seattle-based Pacific Pile & Marine L.P., the Port of South Whidbey’s hired contractor, mobilized Tuesday and has since begun work on the “outside mooring project,” a plan to retrofit the northern edge of the marina outer floats to allow boats 100 feet and larger a place to tie up.
Arriving in stealth and by means unknown, a clutch of at least eight chickens took up roost in Langley last week and, in short order, have become the talk of the town.