Arts center plans procession, memorial in Langley
Some photographs from the first day, Thursday, July 31, of the 90th annual Whidbey Island Area Fair. (Take a long look at the buffalo burger and mountain of curly fries, and try not to be hungry.)
Silver salmon season opened Aug. 1 and lasts into April, and the run is supposed to be similar in size to the past two years. King salmon, with a minimum size of 22 inches and clipped adipose fins [a practice done to hatchery fish], may still be kept until Aug. 15.
But Whidbey anglers and experts said the silvers have not made their way into Puget Sound yet.
Elizabeth Donnelly got a taste of the limelight in Houston, Texas this past week at the USA Track and Field National Junior Olympic Championships.
Instead of shelling out $20,000 on a pair of sculptures the city would own, the newly-formed Langley Arts Commission has a better idea. Rotating sculptures at different sites on Second Street, starting with two different pieces in the plaza for one year from this November to next October.
The Whidbey Island Area Fair kicked off Thursday, bringing lots of sunshine but sparse crowds.
Bingo returns to the Whidbey Island Area Fair this year, and organizers are anxious and nervous to see how it’s received.
Swiping through dozens of photos from last year’s Whidbey Island Area Fair, Virginia Rigney likes the memories people, especially children, create during the annual pottery workshops
Searching for lower rent and more space, Sarah Boin and her husband Patrick may have their ideal space in Langley.
Just up the street from Wander on Whidbey, her Anthes Avenue outdoors shop, the Boins have their sights set on space in the former Living Green building on Second Street and De Bruyn Avenue. To be able to move her business there [which she said is tentative] and open a restaurant [which she said is definite], Boin asked the Langley City Council to consider changing the city’s zoning code Monday night.
The South Whidbey Falcon soccer season is long over for Trey Adams, yet his workouts continue almost every day and every week.
A tide change has hit the Whidbey Adventure Swim this year, its fourth as an open-water race.
Raider “signature” clear, but suspect still at large
A former Langley police officer is taking the city, the police guild and its new police chief to Island County Superior Court.