Four candidates with differing views on several key issues are vying for a seat on the Island County Fire District 3 board of commissioners in the Tuesday, Aug. 18, primary election.
Six candidates for seats on the Island County Fire District 3 and Port of South Whidbey commissions squared off at a voters’ forum in Freeland Thursday night.
Temperatures have slowly dropped on the island since Wednesday’s scorcher, with the outlook for the weekend a more manageable 80-plus degrees.
The last person left homeless by April’s flash flood moved back into her refurbished home on Saturday, thanks to her own determination and a lot of help from her family, friends and neighbors.
Get ready for some sizzling weather today and Thursday.
Record temperatures of 100 degrees or more are forecast for parts of the Puget Sound region, according to the National Weather Service in Seattle.
That’s not a huge tomato soup spill in Holmes Harbor off Freeland Park. And it’s not toxic.
It’s Nactiluca scintillans, known as sea sparkle, a dramatic plankton bloom that is common here when conditions are favorable, Kathleen Parvin, Island County environmental health specialist, said Monday.
The compost will cost a little more to load, but it remains a good deal, said Challis Stringer, Langley’s public works director.
Financial woes surrounding the former Trillium Woods property north of Freeland have stretched down the hill to the Freeland Water and Sewer District.
Little Aaron Maher of Freeland came through his four-hour brain surgery on Tuesday, and appears to be recovering well in intensive care, his mother said.
Taxable retail sales in Langley went up in the first three months of the year by about the same amount as the rest of the state’s went down, according to figures released last week by the state Department of Revenue.
Six members of Langley Christian and Missionary Alliance Church’s youth group leave Thursday afternoon for a 17-day trip to Gabon in Equatorial Africa, where they’ll work in an orphanage and a hospital.
As the war in Afghanistan intensifies and he finds himself in the middle of it, Staff Sgt. Alex Hawley would settle for some baby wipes, clean socks and clean underwear.
Aaron Maher is a determined little fellow, despite the rotten hand he’s been dealt.
