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Laura Hudson’s painting “Untitled” shows the artist’s interest in working with blocks of color and cropped images.

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Mother, daughter share art in Clinton

Theatrics in painting and hip hopping rabbits.

A new stained-glass window by local artists Calli Beers and David Beers will be installed in a north side window of the Langley Library.

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Langley Library celebrates its new makeover, benefactor

The Langley Library is looking good.

Ndoto Project’s  “S2SF “cyclists reach their Golden Gate destination on Sept. 17 after leaving Seattle Sept. 3. The riders include Josh Parkinson

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Whidbey cyclists reach Golden Gate | NOTABLE

“We did it!” Hannah Lee Jones reported after finishing the Ndoto Project bike ride from Seattle to San…

A plenary speaker to be featured at the conference is entrepreneurial mycologist Paul Stamets who seeks to rescue the study of mushrooms from forest gourmets and psychedelic warlords. Stamets believes its possible to terraform other worlds in our galaxy by sowing a mix of fungal spores and other seeds to create an ecological footprint on a new planet.

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Bioneers return to the Whidbey Institute for another energized weekend

Mother Nature called. She said to stop whining and face the music: The planet Earth needs solutions.

Janis Saunders of Stonepath Textile Studio works in the Japanese kumihimo method on a marudai to create her unique braided jewelry. Saunders is studio number 29 on the Whidbey Open Studio Tour 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday

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Whidbey Open Studio Tour starts Saturday

The French post-impressionist master Paul Cezanne said it took him 40 years to figure out that painting was…

Mr. South Whidbey 2010

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Step forward, Mr. South Whidbey

Let the bribes and stuffing begin. The sixth annual Mr. South Whidbey Pageant gets underway at 7 p.m.…

Ilse Evelijn Veere Smit and Dorothy Read get together after finishing “End of Silence” the memoir of Smit’s life during World War II on which writer Read collaborated.

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Whidbey writer is moved to help a friend tell her story of WWII internment

It is more than a book launch. It’s living history. That’s what Greenbank author Dorothy Read said of…

Evolutionary philosopher Brian Swimme made a film on the Greek island of Samos titled “Journey of the Universe.” The documentary will be shown at The Clyde Theatre in Langley at 9 a.m. Saturday

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Documentary film, retreat in Langley encourages new view of universe

Ancient matters of the universe matter even more today. Although the universe is almost 14 billion years old,…

This home in Minami Sanriku in Miyagi

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Benefit at One Drop Monastery will help with disaster relief

It is being called the worst disaster ever recorded in the history of Japan.

Mark O’Connor is one of the headliners at DjangoFest 2011 which runs today through Sunday at Whidbey Island Center for the Arts in Langley.

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Swinging into Langley with DjangoFest Northwest

Summer may be over, but hot is still the word in Langley as autumn approaches.

Oscar Leighton Hilbert’s hand-carved totem has been raised outside Community Thrift in Freeland.

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Freeland will celebrate gift of totem pole

Oscar Leighton Hilbert’s hand-carved thunderbird wings are once again flying high above South Whidbey.

Freeland Library will host a screening of “Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness” by director Patrice O’Neill as part of the Not In Our Town National Week of Action

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‘Not In Our Town’ spreads message of solidarity

It’s a universal worst nightmare scenario. A community member is killed by a violent gang for no reason…

Mona Newbauer

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OutCast opens ‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’

It’s got plenty of kitschy charm to offset the bad taste left by one too many episodes of…