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Port Angeles poet Tess Gallagher and Irish painter Josie Gray enjoy a few strokes around Gray’s hometown lake

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Two gems: Painter and poet marry Ireland and the Northwest

He caught a trout in Lough Arrow, Ireland, and she placed oranges around it for him to paint.…

Brian Grimm at the beginning of the road named for his grandfather.

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Brian Grimm helps gather the stories behind our back roads

Brian Grimm would love to talk to the dead.

Josie Jacob

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Get lucky when the golf balls drop

The last time 9-year-old Darien Jacob got his hands on some abandoned golf balls, he made $61.50.

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Singers return to WCT for benefit performance of “This”

They grew up singing and sang as often as they could.

Maureen Wild and Coyla Shepard shop at the Star Store in Bayview for gluten-free products. Both women help to manage the Gluten Intolerant Group of Whidbey Island

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Gluten-free and relieved

Islander Maureen Wild was living a life of excruciating pain.

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Transition Whidbey takes action for a better island economy

Money means roughly the same thing to everyone. It helps if you have it, it stinks if you…

South Whidbey Children’s Center summer program  students are given some gardening tips by Good Cheer Food Bank’s garden director Cary Peterson.

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Vegetable garden tour will raise funds for the hungry

To paraphrase Shakespeare, here’s flowers and vegetables for you.

Violinist Tekla Cunningham is one of an ensemble of  master chamber music artists who will play at three  venues during the Whidbey Island Music Festival.

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Whidbey Island Music Festival returns

If you have a hankering to hear some Handel or are pining for the strains of Purcell, it’s…

Debbie Cunningham

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Republican women start clothes drive for Iraqi kids

On a recent sunny day, Debbie Cunningham, second vice president of the South Whidbey Republican Women, was happily…

A Highland dancer performs for judges during last year's Whidbey Island Highland Games at Greenbank Farm.

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Whidbey Island Highland Games returns to Greenbank Farm

If you need a good bodyguard or someone to entertain you on a cold winter night, you may…

Sue Ellen White stands at her Freeland Library display on the benefits of canning your own food.

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Canning food for all the right reasons

Raspberries, cherries and blackberries, oh my.

Beverly Graham performs her signature singer-songwriter magic. She headlines the WISH-AID benefit on Saturday

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A day of food, fun and free music for a good cause

Eleven bands, a bodacious barbecue, ice cream and a chance to go to Maui. That’s seven hours of…

Clothing and accessory artist Teri Jo Summer takes a positive attitude toward the slumping economy.

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Artists and the economy — how they survive

Most artists have their “starving artist” period and then move on.