The Langley City Council unanimously rejected the plan for Langley Passage, a proposed 20-home subdivision on the northeast end of town, and rebuked the city’s planning director for his “clearly erroneous” environmental review of the project.
One public works employee at city hall was laid off on Friday, and Langley city workers will face another year of frozen wages and no cost-of-living or merit raises, city officials said Monday after the release of the proposed 2011 budget.
Traffic on Maxwelton Road. Young girls mixing with older boys. Potential permitting problems. Septic system capacity. The price tag.
All important issues, to be sure, as voters consider the South Whidbey School District’s $25 million bond issue that will appear on next week’s ballot.
Port of South Whidbey commissioners took the first step in getting rid of a piece of property on Possession Point where AT&T wants to erect a cell phone tower.
Islanders embrace former president’s call to action.
CLINTON — It’s gotten a little harder to get from here to there. And vice versa. The ferry M/V Kittitas…
CLINTON — The gloves came off at the first voters’ forum for candidates on the November ballot on Tuesday, but it was mostly incumbents who spent the night on the ropes.
More than a dozen calls to the Washington State Auditor’s Office hotline for fraud, waste and abuse triggered the early audit of Langley, an agency spokeswoman said Thursday.
Citizen complaints about what’s happening at city hall have prompted the state to start its official audit of Langley early, city officials said Monday.
The call for an audit of Langley city government is growing in the wake of controversies over the city’s spending practices.
Langley’s building official was accused of padding his bills and getting paid for playing basketball and Frisbee while on the city’s dime, according to a whistleblower complaint released by the city on Friday.
The complaint also questioned why the building official — who was working under a contract for the city — was billing Langley for so much work when building applications had “dropped off considerably” in 2009.
LANGLEY — There’s no going back.
That was the message from District Superintendent Fred McCarthy as he kicked off the campaign this week for a $25 million bond measure to help pay for the move of Langley Middle School to the high school campus.
South End classrooms aren’t bursting at the seams, but an unexpected bump-up in enrollment numbers has given officials in the South Whidbey School District some much-needed good news.
