The only warming center available on South Whidbey finally opened Thursday, a year after announcing its intention to open and in the midst of widespread power outages across Whidbey Island.
A monstrous wind storm swept across the Puget Sound region Tuesday, leaving 900 locations in need of repairs and more than 200,000 homes without power.
Without much further discussion and little public participation at a public hearing Monday night, the Langley City Council approved a 2 percent increase for utility services in 2016.
Protecting American jobs and the planet’s environment were some of the top concerns voiced at a town hall meeting in Clinton on Saturday.
The storytellers of Sarungano have quite the tale to tell.
Dana Moffett, Leslie Breeden, Donita Crosby and Dyanne Harshman went to Zimbabwe earlier this year, largely thanks to donations and fundraising on South Whidbey, to perform with the African country’s traditional instruments and donate several to an orphanage. They have become ambassadors of music, trying to aid in the restoration of a custom stripped from the land’s native people.
Making people laugh is a matter of truth for Ron Reid.
Getting people to think about Clinton’s future went hand-in-hand with discussions of current woes and challenges such as a lack of sewers, absentee property owners, and needed industry during an Island County planning meeting Thursday night.
Overgrown grasses and dead or dying vine maple trees on Second Street became enough of an eyesore that a Langley community organization has come forward and offered to redo the city garden on its own.
Art will attempt to pull at the heart strings of the audience with the help of real strings attached to puppets this Friday night.
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts is bringing in a theater group to put on Kenneth Grahame’s “The Reluctant Dragon” as a puppet play in the first Family Series show of its 2015-16 season. The children’s story, first published in 1898, is about a boy who befriends a like-minded dragon. With the help of fabled dragon slayer St. George, they convince once-terrified townsfolk to accept the less-than-terrifying winged lizard.
If his lead holds, Tim Callison will be the next mayor of Langley.
According to the Island County Auditor’s Office’s first release of general election results Tuesday evening, Callison is cruising along with 233 votes, or 55.2 percent of the vote. By comparison, Sharon Emerson trails with 189 ballots, or 44.8 percent. It’s a difference of 44 votes.
Tim Callison took a 44-vote lead and appears to be headed to the Langley mayor’s office in 2016. Georgia Gardner is also leading the race for Whidbey General Hospital commissioner.
Early general election ballot results released from the Island County Auditor’s Office showed Callison with 233 votes. Sharon Emerson trailed with 189 ballots.
More than 50 Sandy Point homes will continue, as they have for decades, to get water service from Langley.
An uptick in property, sales and real estate taxes will mean more revenue for Langley in 2016.
