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Brian McCleary is the owner of Sustainable Energy Solutions

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Local business helps homeowners to save money, energy

Everybody wants to stop burning money to heat the house. And perhaps it is already clear that the…

Members of the 'Inside Frampton and the Outside World' take the stage for a final bow at Whidbey Children's Theater in Langley.

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Whidbey Children’s Theater presents smart, funny, well-directed play

It may be “children’s theater,” but “Inside Frampton and the Outside World” is the most entertaining show I’ve…

Lynne Donnelly and Shirley Jantz get a bit of tai chi practice in before “World Tai Chi/Qigong Day” on Saturday

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Local instructors lead at ‘World Tai Chi/Qigong Day’

Keeping the doctor away apparently has nothing to do with apples.

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Whidbey Island Garden Tour offers hidden delights

After wheelbarrows are pulled out of sheds, tools sharpened and hands immersed deep into compost rich soil, gardeners…

Gloria Ferry-Brennan

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Young Langley musician wins national competition

Misters Mozart, Bloch and Paganini would be impressed. The judges certainly were.

Scottish weaver and storyteller Norman Kennedy visits Whidbey’s Bayview Community Hall for a demonstration of waulking and Scottish folklore.

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Scottish folklorist to share stories, singing and waulking

The beating of the cloth provides the beat for the song. That just about sums up “waulking,” a…

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Trio of poets to present an evening of poetry at library

There are some poems that are remembered from childhood because of their eloquent simplicity

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Earth and Ocean celebration on Whidbey: Adventurer to speak at Welcome the Whales Day

There are neurotic attack dolphins in Brazil.

Tammy Reim-Ledbetter

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Volunteers to speak about support of gay and lesbian families

Some stories are not the perfect fairy tales.

David Mayer plays Feste in the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts production of "Twelfth Night" opening Friday

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Fools, all, for love — “Twelfth Night” to open in Langley

Forget Hollywood. If it’s a satisfying romantic comedy you’re after, head down to Whidbey Island Center for the…

Alyssa Woodbury plays Don Quixote and Aidan Josephs-Honnold is Sancho Panza in the Whidbey Island Waldorf School production of  “Man of La Mancha.”

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Waldorf middle schoolers to open ‘Man of La Mancha’

An ensemble of youths takes on some heady themes of the human condition, and they sing their hearts…

Whidbey Island Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution regent  Sally Buckingham (right) presents South Whidbey High School senior Angelica Janda with the  2011 Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Clinton.

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Whidbey high school senior wins state DAR Good Citizen Award

One excellent South Whidbey citizen used her writing talents to win a place in history.

Amy Walker posed for 30 record covers in a variety of vintage clothes and wigs for her 'Discourse on Accents' album produced by Third Man Records.

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Amy Walker is making waves — the Clinton actress makes a record with Jack White

It’s not every day a rock star calls you up and asks you to come down to Nashville…