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    Articles by Roy Jacobson
    Iraq War protesters take their first break in seven years
    Iraq War protesters take their first break in...
    By Roy Jacobson • July 14, 2009 5:38 pm

    For the first time in seven years, there will be no Saturday morning protests of the Iraq War at the Bayview park-and-ride lot.

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    Name withheld of man who jumped from Mukilteo-Clinton ferry
    Name withheld of man who jumped from Mukilteo-Clinton...
    By Roy Jacobson • July 14, 2009 5:34 pm

    The identity of a 62-year-old Marysville man who jumped from the ferry Cathlamet on its midnight run from Mukilteo to Clinton early Monday morning remained withheld Tuesday.

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    Lisa Hanna with Amanda Townsend and her son
    Community rallies to help family in Useless Bay...
    By Roy Jacobson • July 14, 2009 5:30 pm

    Deja vu has spurred an effort to help a young couple who lost nearly all of their possessions in a house fire at Useless Bay on June 28.

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    Diking official attempts to take his dispute to the airwaves
    Diking official attempts to take his dispute to...
    By Roy Jacobson • July 10, 2009 7:16 pm

    John Shepard hopes to take his campaign against his fellow diking commissioners off the island and into the ether.
    Shepard, the newest member of the Island County Diking District 1 three-member board of commissioners, has e-mailed three Seattle television stations urging an investigative report on the district.

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    Artist John Alsip
    ReEnergize Convergence conference to take Langley back to...
    By Roy Jacobson • July 10, 2009 7:12 pm

    Eliza Hudson is looking for a pathway home, and she’s hoping it’ll be paved in green.
    Hudson, 24, who grew up on South Whidbey, is program development coordinator for next week’s ReEnergize Convergence, a four-day hands-on eco-friendly conference sponsored by Whidbey Ecollaborative.

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    Glass blowers — and a brewery? — will move into Langley firehouse
    Glass blowers — and a brewery? — will...
    By Roy Jacobson • July 8, 2009 8:00 am

    The city is putting the fire back in the firehouse, and before long you might get a cold beer in there, too.

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    Thailand project is  eye-opener for Langley grad
    Thailand project is eye-opener for Langley grad
    By Roy Jacobson • July 7, 2009 7:02 pm

    A trip halfway around the world turned Amy Brown into a full-blown activist for women’s rights, and her mellow Southern…

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    Fireworks blamed for a number of South End fires
    Fireworks blamed for a number of South End...
    By Roy Jacobson • July 7, 2009 7:00 pm

    Fireworks were blamed for more than a dozen grass, brush and beach fires on South Whidbey during the tinder-dry Fourth of July weekend, Island County Fire District 3 officials said Monday.

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    Langley revenues may set record
    Langley revenues may set record
    By Roy Jacobson • July 7, 2009 6:57 pm

    Langley’s showing some robust returns despite today’s world economic woes, the city council learned at its meeting Monday.

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    Nichols goes after new ferry contracts
    Nichols goes after new ferry contracts
    By Roy Jacobson • July 7, 2009 6:50 pm

    Nichols Brothers Boat Builders is preparing a bid to construct a portion of two more 64-car ferries with an option for a third.
    If the Freeland firm wins the job, it could lead to a near doubling of the workforce in the fall.

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    Leon Israel
    Maxwelton’s parade has vet for grand marshal
    By Roy Jacobson • July 1, 2009 8:00 am

    Leon Israel is happy to be this year’s grand marshal of the annual Maxwelton Fourth of July Parade. But he’s also wistful.
    “I’ll be in a little bitty golf cart instead of a big, fat red Cadillac with the top down,” he said.

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    Langley Mayor Paul Samuelson practices his watering technique on one of the city’s new hanging baskets. Assisting are Langley Chamber of Commerce Director Sherry Mays and Puget Sound Energy’s community representative  Walt Blackford.
    Langley streets burst with blooms from new flower...
    By Roy Jacobson • June 30, 2009 7:49 pm

    Downtown Langley is really blossoming, thanks to the generosity of the community.

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    A house burns at Useless Bay early Sunday  morning. No one was home at the time of the fire
    Victims of fire question response time
    By Roy Jacobson • June 30, 2009 7:35 pm

    Two brothers who lost nearly all their possessions early Sunday morning when a fire gutted their rental house at Useless Bay are frustrated with the fire department’s response time.

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