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Kyle Jensen / The Record South Whidbey volunteers Marti Bauer (left) and Linda Jacobson (right) take a look at one of the 16 bags the volunteers will take on their aid trip to Haiti.

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Helping Haiti: volunteers staff clinics following hurricane

As Linda Jacobson peeks inside her travel suitcase, she sifts through bags filled with…

Variety of plants, landscapes on view at new nursery in Clinton

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Variety of plants, landscapes on view at new nursery in Clinton

Facing extensive competition, nurseries on the South End have to bring something different to the ..

A state board recently found the county's comprehensive plan is out of compliance with state rules regarding habitat protection of the western toad.

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Island County’s toad protection lacking, state board rules

Island County needs to do a better job of protecting the western toad, a state board recently ruled.…

A car crashed into a fallen tree that blocked both lanes of Woodard Avenue in Freeland on Friday evening. Nobody was injured.

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Storm doesn’t live up to forecast, South Whidbey ‘lucky’

It was the storm that never was. The past weekend’s storms saw high winds and a large amount…

Candidates for the open district 1 and 2 county commissioner seats prepare to debate. Left to right: Jill Johnson

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Whidbey candidates face off at forum in Freeland

Congressional, senate and county commissioner candidates duked it out Thursday night over a plethora of issues, leaving some…

Mother and daughter Ada Rose Faith-Feyma and Sheila Weidendorf of Langley walk down Main Street in Freeland Friday for a cup of joe at WiFire Cafe. Others on South Whidbey were busy preparing for the coming storm

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Whidbey braces for Saturday storm

Generators, lanterns, batteries and other emergency supplies were difficult to find this week, being quickly picked by residents…

Mother and daughter Ada Rose Faith-Feyma and Sheila Weidendorf of Langley walk down Main Street in Freeland Friday for a cup of joe at WiFire Cafe. Others on South Whidbey were busy preparing for the coming storm, buying batteries and other emergency supplies.

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Whidbey braces for Saturday storm

Generators, lanterns, batteries and other emergency supplies were difficult to find this week, …

Volunteer Kimberly Shelton (left) hands a young girl a bowl of warm soup at the Good Cheer Empty Bowl Soup Night on Sunday evening.

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Good Cheer fills empty bowls, stomachs at Empty Soup Bowl Night

Bowl by bowl, loaf by loaf, Good Cheer worked to make sure nobody on the South End went…

The highly unpopular President Charles Smith (David Mayer) ponders his chances in the upcoming election as his speech writer Clarence Bernstein (Morgan Bondelid) pitches ideas for a speech.

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‘November’ brings election season chaos to WICA stage

Regardless of what side of the political spectrum on which you stand, it’s been an absurd year in…

Island Headquarters owner Jeffrey Wood trims Clinton resident Gary Hansen’s beard from Wood’s small “man cave.”

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Bayview barber keeps retro alive, one cut at a time

At a tiny storefront off Highway 525 in Bayview, a barber pole spins only three days a week.…

The Furries bassist Emrys Harper jams from the floor at The Machine Shop during the closing set of the Oct. 1 show. The Langley pinball arcade hosts concerts on the first Saturday of each month.

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Langley arcade provides venue for youth, nightlife

As the sound of guitar riffs and crashing symbols come and go, a seemingly out-of-place noise can be…

Tony Hartman (right) gives Eric Vasilyev (left) the belt that was used as a makeshift tourniquet to slow blood flow to his injured arm.

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Greenbank residents honored after helping with chainsaw accident

Call it coincidence, fortune or fate, Eric Vasilyev owes his life to a handful of skilled Good Samaritans.…

Gary Wray

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Candidates square off at South Whidbey Record forum

Some questions are just off limits, several Whidbey commissioner hopefuls decided at a election forum in Clinton on…