Sound Publishing newspapers the South Whidbey Record and the Whidbey News-Times will continue to share the responsibility of publicizing all county legal notices in 2015.

Island County commissioners approved the contract with Whidbey News Group last week at the first board meeting in April per state statute.

The publications offer a combined circulation of 9,400 in print and approximately 700,000 unique visitors via the web.

The cost per column inch increased 35 cents over previous years and the web publication of legals is provided free of charge.