Just as many smiles as plastic eggs were cracked under sunny skies Saturday for the annual egg hunt sponsored by the Clinton Chamber of Commerce.
It came from beneath the sea — or more exactly, the mucky depths of Deer Lake, Clinton’s only freshwater swimming and fishing hole.
A pot of flowers was treated like a hot potato at the Langley City Council meeting Monday night.
Lucas Jushinski wanted to talk about marijuana Monday night, but Mayor Larry Kwarsick delayed the discussion until the next Langley City Council meeting April 16.
The city of Langley tapped out its tourism fund by awarding approximately $10,600 to support two projects this summer.
In the mind of Langley’s mild-mannered grocer, Gene Felton, it’s gone forever.
A meeting is being held in Langley today to discuss a brouhaha stirred up by the elimination of a commercial truck loading zone that has some Second Street merchants steaming.
Tom Park has a use for the historic Whidbey Telecom phone booth along Highway 525 south of Greenbank, but it’s not as intended.
In 1953, David Henny purchased Whidbey Telephone Co. with its 500 customers and soon decided to bury the overhead telephone lines underground.
The decision showed foresight but was not without controversy. The Whidbey Record editor at the time wrote sarcastically that if the phone lines were to be buried then the sewer lines should be placed overhead on wooden poles. Fortunately, that idea didn’t carry the day.
Norma Metcalf, the queen of South Whidbey Republican politics, didn’t get her way in the party caucus held in the overflowing high school New Commons Saturday morning.
