The city prides itself on being a picturesque little town by the sea. Russell Sparkman is urging everyone who will listen to look deeper and reap the benefits.
The Whidbey Island Conservation District needs a special tax assessment next year to stabilize its operations and continue its programs, officials say.
The economy appears to have delivered a heavy blow to the proposed residential development of 750 acres north of Freeland.
Two notices of foreclosure and trustee sale were posted Thursday at the entrance to Estates at Whidbey, formerly called Trillium Woods.
A group of Possession Shores neighbors are steamed about tribal crab pots being left high and dry by this week’s extremely low tides.
After 20 years, and despite the economy, Jil Helland and Ursula Shoudy are still up to their kneecaps in higgledy-piggledy little customers.
They own Toddle Inn, an early-learning and daycare facility in Clinton for children ages 4 weeks to 5 years old.
There was lingering frustration but few answers as Whidbey commuters who face the loss of their parking places in Mukilteo packed Clinton Community Hall on Wednesday night.
It took about 11 hours to remove a 19-ton boom lift from the entrance to Langley’s Seawall Park after it slid out of control and landed upside-down Tuesday afternoon.
There’s no federal stimulus money for Whidbey General Hospital’s new South End healthcare facility at Bayview, so the project remains on hold until the economy improves, Tom Tomasino, hospital interim chief executive, said Monday.
Another beaver is repairing the dam on upper Glendale Creek. It’s the same spot where the collapse of a portion of a beaver dam was blamed for triggering the April flood that forced Glendale residents from their homes and did more than $5 million in damage.
Tears flowed and tissues fluttered in the bright sunshine at Bayview Corner on Thursday afternoon as nine students from Bayview School received their high school diplomas.
There’s nothing like getting out of bed in the morning and discovering a new life, said John Moritz of Langley.
“It’s amazing,” he said, “to travel the world and return home to see a deer born on Whidbey Island.”
Mukilteo officials will be in Clinton next week to meet with Whidbey commuters who keep cars on the other side of the water and are rapidly losing their parking spaces.
The math and a lot of goodwill appear to be working to make sure the community has a blast.
The outlook was bleak for awhile, but now organizers of the Celebrate America July 3 fireworks show are close to their goal, and say the event will go on.
