The number of travelers on the Clinton-Mukilteo ferry route dropped by nearly half during January’s wicked week of winter weather.
An Iraq War veteran and local community volunteer is making plans to start a medical marijuana business in Langley. Lucas Jushinski met with city officials last week to outline his plan for a medical marijuana “access point,” which would be located in a low-key facility just outside the downtown area. Langley leaders have been cautiously supportive of the idea, and will hold a special meeting Feb. 15 to gauge public reaction to the idea.
LANGLEY — Support for a funicular — a one-car, public people mover that would be built to connect Cascade Avenue to the Langley Marina area — is on the rise in Langley.
The Village by the Sea is getting on the bandwagon. The bandwagon, in this case, is a tricked-out golf cart.
City Councilman Hal Seligson wasn’t willing to let a little progress stop him now. Seligson had hoped to present his fellow council members with a resolution last week that would put the city squarely in support of a proposed state law that would legalize same-sex marriage.
With three of her four children getting ready to retire over the next decade, Delores in Marysville wanted to chat about Social Security and Medicare. Walter in Mount Vernon wondered about insider trading in Congress. And Jack in Anacortes wanted to talk about the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project.
LANGLEY — Some heavy metal may return to Langley’s old firehouse on Second Street, and this time, it won’t be a fire engine returning from a blaze. Tim Leonard, the owner of Heavy Metal Works, is hoping to lease the back section of the old fire hall for his metal-art business. Leonard currently operates his studio at his home on Saratoga Road.
The Washington State Patrol has reopened Highway 525 after an early morning logging truck accident that injured a 20-year-old Clinton man.
FREELAND – A driver hit the back end of a loaded logging truck and was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after an early morning crash on Highway 525 at Scott Road early Wednesday morning.
State Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen’s decision to support same-sex marriage is getting a grateful reaction in Langley.
Haugen, a 10th District lawmaker, said she would vote for a proposed law that would make Washington the seventh state in the union to allow same-sex marriages.
The end is near for a few of Langley’s trashy-looking fire hydrants.
Assistant Island County Engineer Connie Bowers said county road crews were working 24 hours each day this week, sanding and plowing as needed. At least four plows or sanders were at work in each of the county’s road shops; there are three on Whidbey Island, and one on Camano Island.
LANGLEY — What goes up, must come down. Just the opposite may be happening in Langley. A proposed funicular at the marina — an idea that plummeted in popularity with the city council last year — is on the rise again, mainly due to a fresh proposal for a development project along Wharf Street.
