Jon Poolman and Will Hallberg of South Whidbey High School are this year’s 2A state champions in the 400-meter run and triple jump.
Two port commissioners have become the target of an anonymous intimidation campaign.
When it began 14 years ago, the Chum Run was supposed to be a highly competitive venue for top runners. It isn’t any more.
For some South Whidbey varsity athletes, this is a busy week indeed.
Thirteen Falcons are representing their school and community — in golf, tennis and track — at state championship venues in Yakima, Seattle and Tacoma.
A bike-happy crowd of just under 300 folks enjoyed the finest course conditions ever during the Whidbey Island Mudder on Sunday, according to founder Robert Frey.
Falcon Will Hallberg posted 44 feet, 5.75 inches in the triple jump to take first place and qualify for the state finals in the first day of action at the District 1 meet in Sultan on Wednesday.
The South Whidbey boys golf team placed second behind Bellingham at the District 1 tournament last week.
It’s a race only a “mudder” would love.
The Port of South Whidbey commissioners have unanimously decided to do nothing about a proposed cell tower above Possession Point Waterfront Park.
The Island County Health Department has closed Lone Lake to swimming because of a toxic blue-green algal bloom.
Several South Whidbey track and field athletes performed at their very best during the two-day Cascade Conference championships at Cedarcrest High School late last week.
LANGLEY — The machine is relentless.
Every seven seconds it pumps out a little yellow ball and, unless the feeder bin is empty, it never stops.
And defending South Whidbey 2A state tennis champion Riley Newman wouldn’t have it any other way.
As the hot sun baked the high school tennis court surface Monday, Newman hit back hundreds of balls as he struggled with a new stroke, the backhand volley.
The South Whidbey fastpitch softball team lost its final game 10-0 to undefeated Granite Falls on Wednesday.
