The former Trillium Woods, the 750-acre property north of Freeland that was once the site of a controversial housing development, changed hands at a public trustees auction in Coupeville today.
Times have been set for public meetings this weekend for Island County Fire District 3 commissioners to interview six finalists to replace Fire Chief Dan Stout.
Most customers of Island County Fire District 3 appear to be satisfied with the emergency response they received, according to survey results released by Fire Chief Dan Stout.
“This demonstrates that the citizens of South Whidbey are pleased with the service they’re getting,” Stout said. “The data is pretty positive for the district.”
Bowing to a late surge of public pressure, county officials will leave Clinton’s venerable “Welcome to Whidbey Island” sign where it is instead of moving it up the highway to Campbell Road.
Thousands of dollars worth of shelving and display fixtures from the former Linds Langley Drug, which closed this past winter, have been donated to Good Cheer for use in its soon-to-be-expanded thrift store on Anthes Avenue.
Robin and Jerry Koeller would love to know who set their garage on fire.
A full-court press is under way to keep the popular “Welcome to Whidbey Island” sign from being lugged up the road. But time is short.
Six members of a Langley church youth group are back home and seeing life more clearly after a 16-day summer mission to Gabon in Equatorial Africa.
Four South End activists, and a retired Seattle trombonist who donated a huge chunk of his South Whidbey forest land for conservation, will be honored as the Whidbey Camano Land Trust celebrates it 25th anniversary this week.
There’ll be no little shop of porn at Ken’s Korner Shopping Center, thanks to an outpouring of community indignation.
Demolition has begun on the old Freeland Lanes, for 50 years South Whidbey’s only bowling alley.
The historic Greenbank Store changes hands Thursday, but it won’t be changing families.
Tom and Mary Coupe, who have owned and operated the store for 45 years, are selling it to their niece, Kate Buzard of Clinton.
A pornography shop in the back room of a small business at Ken’s Korner Shopping Center in Clinton was ordered closed Monday by the shopping center’s manager.
