Bellevue Christian’s full-court press proved to be too much for the South Whidbey girls basketball team Thursday night.
South Whidbey will not have a home wrestling meet this year and district officials have canceled the team’s remaining away head-to-head Cascade Conference meets.
Walk into Erickson Gym or through the gates of Waterman’s Field for a football, volleyball, basketball or wrestling match, and one of five women is there to greet you.
For at least the past decade, every home game at South Whidbey High School has featured the Falcon athletics ladies: Maryann Davis, Pat Nostrand, Lois Cooley, Janis Martinovic and Jan McNeely. And they are true blue: each dons their blue and white proudly, welcomes guests, hands out tickets and chats with friends, neighbors, parents, students and teachers.
South Whidbey held a six-point lead in the first half, but lost it as the Archbishop Murphy girls basketball team defended better as the game went on, eventually winning 51-42 in Langley.
The first quarter belonged to the South Whidbey girls basketball team against Archbishop Murphy on Friday.
Playing in a Cascade Conference game, the Falcons held a 12-6 lead through the first period, only to watch it slip away in the second quarter to a 20-18 deficit and eventually a 57-42 loss.
Langley has hired a new director of Community Planning for Langley with 25 years of public and private planning experience.
The sheep on John and Molly Petersons’ farm trot along the small apple and pear orchard, completely unaware of how the ground temperature and moisture may affect their next meal.
South Whidbey wrestling had the grapplers, but lacked the numbers to defeat Archbishop Murphy in a dual meet Thursday night in Everett.
The crunch and crack of trees being felled and cleared echoed through the chilly, wet air of the Trillium Woods on Friday morning.
About 20 people donned boots to traipse through a section of the Freeland forest’s 654 acres as part of a tour to see how the Whidbey Camano Land Trust manages the land. Led by Mike Janicki, owner of Janicki Logging & Construction which was brought in to “thin” the woods, the visitors asked about the practice of selecting trees for thinning, reflected on the property’s history and pondered its future.
The Thanksgiving weekend deep freeze led to icy roads and even more frigid feelings held by some Langley business owners.
During the last regular Langley City Council meeting of the year, business owners Dan Haldeman and Kim Teller voiced their displeasure over the icy road conditions that lingered for days.
Santa and his fleet of elven workers would be mighty proud of Gerry Betz and Larry Lowary, the masterminds behind the popular Tree-Top Baking.
The baking duo, who only sell at the Bayview Farmers Market, treat the holidays like every other week during the market season.
Granite Falls rallied from a 10-point deficit to defeat the South Whidbey boys basketball team 58-55 in Langley on Dec. 16.
Granite Falls locked down South Whidbey in the waning minutes to recover from a six-point hole and win 58-55 Tuesday night.
