Langley Planning Director Larry Kwarsick is running for mayor in the Village by the Sea. Kwarsick announced his candidacy for the mayor’s job in Langley on Wednesday. He said he would run as a part-time mayor, for part-time pay.
It was proud yet personal. Historical but heartfelt.
Washington State Rep. Norma Smith stepped into the empty place where, six years ago, her late husband had humbly stood: a patch of grass between graves near the entrance of the Clinton Cemetery, before a crowd gathered to mark Memorial Day.
With the search for a new district superintendent over, the South Whidbey School Board will turn its attention back to its controversial consolidation effort.
The city’s mayor may keep getting some of the plumpest paychecks in the state — if voters decide to reject a ballot measure in August that would eliminate the position of an elected mayor.
Josephine Moccia already knew what Rich Parker, chairman of the South Whidbey School Board, was going to say when she picked up the phone. She got the job.
The Langley City Council will take a new look at the mayor’s salary at a special meeting on Monday, and city officials have vowed to take a comparative look at what mayors are paid elsewhere in the state as they decide how much Langley’s mayor should pocket for his work at city hall.
The South Whidbey School Board has unanimously chosen Josephine “Jo” Moccia, the current superintendent of the Averill Park Central School District, to be South Whidbey’s next superintendent of schools.
Whidbey Island voters have rejected a $50 million expansion proposal to expand Whidbey General Hospital, according to a second tally of votes on Thursday afternoon.
Island County Fair officials announced an immediate closure of the horse arena and equestrian facilities at the county fairgrounds in Langley in light of the EHV-1 outbreak in the Western U.S.
A public works employee who was laid off last year as the city began trimming its budget has filed a $4.5 million damage claim against Langley.
Langley has once again taken up the topic of the mayor’s salary, a subject that has cursed the council since late 2008, as questions started to stir inside city hall about vacation pay for the mayor.
Faced with a choice of bad timing in August, or bad timing in November, the Langley City Council has decided to grease the skids for an earlier election on whether the city should change its form of government.
Faced with a choice of bad timing in August, or bad timing in November, the Langley City Council has decided to grease the skids for an earlier election on whether the city should change its form of government.
