R. Bruce Allen has picked up seven more votes and now has a 25-vote lead over Thomas Gill in the race for Position 4 on the Langley City Council.
Whidbey Island will be smacked by high winds — which may cause flooding along the west coast of the island — Friday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service office in Seattle.
LANGLEY — The city’s next mayor has announced his first priority: asking the city council to cut his pay.
LANGLEY — The Langley City Council unanimously approved a $125,000 settlement agreement to end a lawsuit filed by a former employee who claimed he had been fired by the city late last year because of his age.
R. Bruce Allen’s advantage in the race for Position 4 for the Langley City Council remained at 18 votes after the latest tally of ballots.
COUPEVILLE — Another 3,000 ballots, at least, will be counted this afternoon in the next tally of votes for the 2011 General Election.
The winner in the August primary for Position 3 on the Langley City Council has turned out to be a winner again in the General Election.
The tag-team strategy worked. Big time. Lou Malzone and Marilynn Abrahamson were winning in a landslide against Nolen “Rocky” Knickerbocker and Jim Short, the incumbent commissioners of the Freeland Water and Sewer District, in Tuesday’s General Election.
R. Bruce Allen wasn’t ready to declare victory Tuesday night in the race for Position 4 on the Langley City Council, despite a 5-point advantage in early vote returns.
The incumbents are out in the race for two board seats on the Freeland Water and Sewer District.
The city of Langley has accepted a $472,706 bid from Krieg Construction of Oak Harbor to build the city’s new park-and-ride project at the CMA Church parking lot.
It’s lean, but not as mean, as this year’s budget. The Langley City Council will hold its first public hearing Monday on the city’s 2012 budget. And though the Village by the Sea will have a plumper pot of money to pull from, city officials have built a budget that includes higher salaries but fewer workers at city hall.
Last-minute jitters were in short supply — in fact, they were nowhere to be found — as candidates on next week’s ballot approached the end of the campaign trail. The 2011 General Election is Tuesday, Nov. 8, and several candidates said they were planning on a low-key effort during this final weekend before Election Day.
