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    Articles by Jim Larsen
    EDITORIAL | Final edition
    EDITORIAL | Final edition
    By Jim Larsen • July 5, 2013 6:19 pm

    This is the final edition of The South Whidbey Record with my name listed as editor. For those of you thinking of chiseling my tombstone, the dates would be from November 1981 to October 2001, and then again from November 2012 to July 2013. I like to make things difficult for chiselers.

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    Third Nichols Brothers ferry unlikely this session
    Third Nichols Brothers ferry unlikely this session
    By Jim Larsen • June 28, 2013 5:42 pm

    A transportation bill that provides for a third 144-passenger Washington State ferry important to Nichols Brothers Boat Builders of Freeland passed the state House Thursday evening but likely isn’t going any further this year.

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    Malina Vandewerfhorst
    Jack, South Whidbey’s only pet coatimundi, undergoes dental...
    By Jim Larsen • June 14, 2013 5:57 pm

    Jack, South Whidbey’s news making coatimundi, has a clean set of choppers thanks to a local veterinarian and a sympathetic woman who started a fundraiser to pay for the dental makeover.

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    Walt Condon arrives home to find his garage and daughter's apartment totally destroyed
    Flames destroy garage, apartment near Mutiny Bay
    By Jim Larsen • June 12, 2013 7:00 pm

    A raging fire destroyed a two-story garage with an apartment on the top floor near Mutiny Bay early Wednesday afternoon.

    South Whidbey Fire/EMS responded to a call that came in about 1:30 p.m. to find the garage entirely engulfed in flames, said Chief Rusty Palmer as he watched firefighters pour water on the black, smokey remnants of the building. The building was near the intersection of Mutiny Bay and Bush Point roads.

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    New Mukilteo ferry terminal nears construction start date
    New Mukilteo ferry terminal nears construction start date
    By Jim Larsen • June 7, 2013 3:59 pm

    Ferry officials seemed a bit ebullient Wednesday night in Clinton, and who could blame them. After several decades of planning and dreaming, it looks like the move of the Mukilteo ferry terminal could be imminent in bureaucratic time.

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    Lagoon Point residents watch the Neahkahnie which went aground early Tuesday morning. Plans are to pull the boat free with tugboat that will arrive at 3 p.m.
    Fishing boat runs aground on Whidbey Island, no...
    By Jim Larsen • June 4, 2013 4:36 pm

    A large fishing boat went aground at Lagoon Point on Tuesday morning at 4 a.m., about an hour before the sun rose to create a glorious day on Whidbey Island.

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    Lagoon Point residents watch the Neahkahnie which went aground early Tuesday morning. Plans are to pull the boat free with tugboat that will arrive at 3 p.m.
    Fishing boat runs aground at Lagoon Point
    By Jim Larsen • June 4, 2013 1:38 pm

    A large fishing boat went aground at Lagoon Point on Tuesday morning at 4:30 a.m., less than an hour before the sun rose to create a glorious day on Whidbey Island.

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    SLIDESHOW | Scores honor fallen veterans at Bayview Cemetery
    SLIDESHOW | Scores honor fallen veterans at Bayview...
    By Jim Larsen • May 29, 2013 12:29 pm

    Quite a showing solemnly honored fallen veterans at Bayview Cemetery this Memorial Day.

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    Dale Strickland
    Heavy rains cause landslide, blocking Whidbey Shores road
    By Jim Larsen • May 28, 2013 4:24 pm

    The long winter and spring of landslides on Whidbey Island resumed on a rainy Monday evening when a hunk of bluff fell across East Point Road in the Whidbey Shores community on Fox Spit, about five miles north of Langley.

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    Pollution levels in Holmes Harbor are considerably lower
    Holmes Harbor pollution eases
    By Jim Larsen • May 28, 2013 4:18 pm

    The tainted waters at the south end of Holmes Harbor have improved dramatically, leading to the possibility they will be declared safe for swimming, wading and shellfish harvesting later this year.

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    In a moment of levity
    Island turns out to honor fallen veterans
    By Jim Larsen • May 28, 2013 4:17 pm

    One of the largest crowds in years swarmed to pay homage to America’s fallen war heroes with a ceremony at Bayview Cemetery on Memorial Day.

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    Gordon and Shirley Simmons
    Simmons Garage stays in the family
    By Jim Larsen • May 24, 2013 4:43 pm

    The long transition from Simmons Garage to Simmons Garage is complete in Clinton.

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    Linda and Leonard Good try out a relative’s tornado shelter in Oklahoma. The guitar symbolize’s Leonard’s boyhood in Oklahoma. At 6 years old
    Whidbey Islanders get a taste of tornado in...
    By Jim Larsen • May 24, 2013 4:40 pm

    Leonard and Linda Good returned home safely to South Whidbey after a harrowing visit to Oklahoma.

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