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Whidbey Island Dance Theatre company member Madyson Hunter as the Reindeer.

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Snow Queen redux| Theatrical ballet returns after 16 years as a gift to Langley

One of the main thrusts of “The Snow Queen” is about what one friend will do for another.

Jim and Jo Shelver have created more than a dozen  different bird houses and bird feeders for a birdhouse auction to help pay for a new roof for Enso House

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Freeland’s Enso House needs a new roof: buy a birdhouse!

A local hospice needs a roof, and volunteers will hold a birdhouse auction to help the cause.

Lloyd Furman and Ivan Little take a moment for a photo in Freeland. The longtime friends from South Whidbey both are on a kidney donation waiting list.

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Two old friends share long wait for kidney transplant

FREELAND — You’re never too old for a kidney. That’s what doctors told Freeland resident Ivan Little when…

Flautist Yasuko Honjo Harris will be play Shinbue (transverse bamboo flute) at the “Riches of Japan” cultural event at the Northwest Language Academy Cultural Center in Langley Saturday

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Explore the cultural wonders of Japan in Langley

From sushi to shakuhachi, the art, tastes and sounds of Japan come to Langley next week.

Hannah McConnaughey will travel to Florida this month for a robotics international competition.

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South Whidbey robotics team member heads to Florida | KUDOS

After a disappointing finish at the regional robotics competition, South Whidbey’s Team Atlantis, Inc. robotics team member Hannah…

Josh Hauser stands in front of the children’s book section at Moonraker Books in Langley. Hauser started the bookstore 40 years ago this month with her husband Glenn Hauser

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Forty and still fabulous at Moonraker Books in Langley

LANGLEY — Moonraker Books in Langley sails into its 40th year this weekend as owner Josh Hauser continues…

Whidbey Audubon Society volunteer Kelly Zupich works on a bird specimen in taxidermist Matt Klope’s Oak Harbor studio for the Bird in Hand exhibit at Greenbank Farm.

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Bird in Hand event comes to Greenbank Farm

Reach out and touch a bird, or 100. And meet “Zeb” the hawk, too.

Jim Scullin plays David Frost and Ken Church is Richard M. Nixon in “Frost/Nixon

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Evans directs ‘Frost/Nixon’ at WICA

It was 1977, and a moment in which “Tricky Dick” was not as tricky as he needed to…

Ashley Ricketts and Karyna Hezel tunes into the ancient art of pysanka

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Support is needed if art is to remain in Whidbey Island schools

Whidbey Festival of the Arts is Friday, June 1 and Saturday, June 2.

Artist Aleah Chapin in the studio.

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Whidbey Island native Chapin shortlisted for prestigious London gallery art award | KUDOS

Artist Aleah Chapin has been short-listed for the BP Portrait Award 2012 in London, one of the world’s…

Above is an example of a certified private backyard. Below

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Take a walk on the wild side at Whidbey Island’s Backyard Wildlife Habitat Fair

Whidbey has made it to the wild side. The island joins 13 other communities in Washington to be…

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Memories of a 100-year-old vet: 4-H youths tell Savy Savinelli’s story of WWII

FREELAND — In 1941, while President Franklin D. Roosevelt was initiating a full scale support of China in…

Brian Plebanek and Gail Liston

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Freeland wine shop owners celebrate ten years

FREELAND — Walk into Vino Amore wine shop and expect a warm hello from Koa.