Langley’s Soup Box Derby, a wacky take on the venerable Soap Box Derby for sleek downhill gravity racers allegedly designed and built by kids, is around the corner and up First Street.
Its current clients are no older than 11, but the school itself is about to turn 30 this week.
More than 4,500 students later, the nonprofit South Whidbey Children’s Center will celebrate three decades as an early learning facility.
They were about two hours late, those who didn’t miss the bus or misjudge the ferry, but they showed up ready to work.
More than 40 students of Trinity Lutheran College in Everett came to help out Good Cheer on Monday afternoon as part of the school’s community service program.
Three anonymous donors may push the drive to protect Trillium Woods over the top, Whidbey Camano Land Trust officials said Tuesday.
When you struggle with a family illness, or try to figure out how to buy food and pay the mortgage at the same time, new pencils, markers and notebooks for the kids can be a low priority.
The neighbors are determined that play will resume at Holmes Harbor Golf Course at Freeland.
But in the meantime, some are worried their home values are dropping fast.
How’s your mohair?
How about your Sunbrella, damask, toiles or French embroidery rooster prints? Running low on tapestries, linen, 100-percent cotton or silk?
If you need some quality fabric, it’s available at a little shop in downtown Freeland for a fraction of the price, according to its owner.
The city of Langley will apply for a $216,250 grant through the Federal Highway Administration to plan Second Street improvements for the next decade.
The newest member of Langley’s Planning Advisory Board has his own plan — to shake things up.
When people in Langley look ahead, they’re also looking behind, if recent events are any indication.
More than 1,200 people from on and off the island jammed the parking lots around Bayview this past Friday afternoon to participate in Hanson’s Building Supply’s annual free gift to the community.
Langley’s three police officers are about to form a union. The three officers intend to form a local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, a national organization with 2,100 guilds and a membership of more than 325,000.
Whether it’s the Strawberry Go Round, the Dive Bomber, the Merry-Go-Round or one of the oldest mobile Ferris wheels still running, for Larry Fosgate of Las Vegas, Nev. it’s all about the kids.
