Island County officials are now considering a complete ban on shooting at Deer Lagoon, a popular destination for waterfowl hunters on the South End.
Island County commissioners decided not to pull the trigger on adopting new rules for hunters at Deer Lagoon.
But the issue isn’t dead. Commissioners postponed a decision Monday night on creating a 230-yard no-shoot zone around Deer Lagoon, but will re-examine the issue after allowing an extra week of public comment.
Whidbey General Hospital is losing its patients.
But solving that perennial problem is a priority for the hospital’s new leader, Whidbey General Hospital CEO Tom Tomasino said Thursday.
Fares on Washington ferries won’t go up and up.
They’ll just go up.
Island County commissioners will revisit restrictions on shooting at Deer Lagoon, and the proposed rules put a greater area of the lagoon off-limits than the regulations last considered in 2005.
An unexpected glimpse into the history of the South End was delivered to the South Whidbey Record last week in a plain manila envelope.
Inside were two editions of the Whidby Record from 1926, and the papers are now the oldest known copies of the Record in the newspaper’s collection.
Angry but energetic, frustrated but fired up, a group of nearly 60 protesters gathered Wednesday night at the Bayview Park-and-Ride to shout out for healthcare reform.
Voters in Central and South Whidbey pushed Island Transit’s sales-tax measure to victory, according to an analysis of early precinct results by the Record.
Two stretches of Highway 525 on South Whidbey are in the top 10 in Western Washington for vehicle-deer collisions. But other stretches of roadway on the South End also have high numbers of accidents involving wildlife.
A 42-foot boat slammed into the shore south of the Clinton ferry dock Tuesday afternoon after the crew at the controls apparently fell asleep.
There are nearly 280 million reasons why Washington State Ferries wants to start a reservation system for travelers on state ferries.
But the one that’s foremost in many minds on the South End is not among them.
“We’re not interested in doing this to make people’s lives miserable,” David Moseley, the assistant secretary for the state Department of Transportation’s Ferries Division, told an attentive audience at a ferry meeting Tuesday.
“Green blobs and belts.” It’s not a fashion statement, but an idea Langley planners think is tailor-made to creating a swath of open space around the city.
Residents will see the big jump in the city’s stormwater utility rates starting in July.
