Island County is refusing to pay more than $43,000 in costs that Freeland officials have piled up in pursuit of a controversial $40 million sewer expansion project south of Holmes Harbor.
The city’s acting police chief may get a permanent promotion to the job.
Langley’s next mayor should make less than what the city pays an office assistant.
LANGLEY — One smile did it all. Getting into trouble; getting out of trouble. Making new friends, keeping old ones.
Add two more votes to the total for R. Bruce Allen. Island County elections workers wrapped up their final vote tally before the election is certified on Nov. 29, and approximately 100 more votes were counted today.
Commissioners for Island County Fire District 3 will consider a $44,750 consultant contract for public relations work at their meeting tonight in Langley.
FREELAND — Lou Malzone won’t get to make good on a big campaign promise. Three other guys beat him to it.
The teen driver in the crash that killed three South Whidbey men was charged with three counts of vehicular homicide Tuesday in Island County Superior Court.
An Island County judge has ordered the driver in a triple-fatality car accident near Clinton held on $150,000 bail.
Thursday was Day Two and another day of uncertainty for Ken Vaughan. Vaughan owns the liquor store in Freeland, and like other state-licensed contract liquor sellers, he’s found there are no easy answers after voters approved Initiative 1183 Tuesday and took the state out of the liquor business.
What were voters thinking? Three top Island County officials spent a little more than an hour Wednesday trying to sort that out.
It was just after midnight Friday, and Robert Volz heard a loud noise and looked out his living room window to see headlights in his driveway. “What the hell’s going on?” he asked. He soon found out. Hell was across the street.
The ship has already left the dock. Community Planner Jeff Arango told the council this week it’s too late for city officials to get the Port of South Whidbey to change its plans for the first phase of the makeover of the Langley Marina.
