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Festive fun for family and friends

“Come Home for the Holidays” is the theme for this year’s holiday festivities in Langley. And that means…

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Benevolent repercussions of a simple gift

“The Giving of Art — The Art of Giving” is an art sale organized by 11 Whidbey Island…

Dance instructors Hilde Schneider-Mott

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Jammin’ for a good body

Islanders are discovering the highs of dancing with a little attitude — and subsequently becoming heart healthier and more…

Gray River Trail III is one of Carolyn Divelbess Denning’s watercolor paintings that reveal her meanderings on the mountainous regions of her home state of Nevada. Denning shares the spotlight with her sister

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Though two of the artists are sisters, the three women showing this month at Karlson/Gray Gallery in Langley all very much do their own thing.

Though two of the artists are sisters, the three women showing this month at Karlson/Gray Gallery in Langley…

Dr. Thomas Harris is geared up and ready to visit the sick at home with his new business

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Doctoring with heart

Imagine yourself in your sickbed. You need medication but that means overcoming the monumental task of getting your…

Polly Garrett

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Unflinching community, helping hands and hearts breed healing

Four years ago you were diagnosed. You, happy island woman, wife, mother of small children. Words you previously…

The ferry Calista was rammed by a Japanese freighter near Seattle on July 27

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Historical society holds talk about ferries then and now

Living on an island, it’s good to know there is a boat available for escape. On the South…

Trombonist Liana Cave goes through her morning paces with the South Whidbey High School Jazz Ensemble.

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Red hot and cool

The South Whidbey High School Jazz Ensemble is on a roll. But their recent kudos were not garnered…

Pam Mitchell

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Eating green in a post-carbon world

Have good food; will not travel. Shop any local supermarket’s produce display and you’ll come across apples from…

Burr’s “Ezekiel’s Wheels” won a Bronze Award at the ninth Quilt Japan Exhibition.

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Artist quilts her way to Japan

The busy hands of one artist will take her to the other side of the Pacific. Of the…

Bronwyn Messer holds her brand new baby boy Brody Shawn Messer while dad

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Brody is first baby in 2008

Brody Shawn Messer rang in the new year as the first born island baby of 2008. Brody was…