Proponents of a sewer system for Freeland are weighing their options after failing to win federal stimulus money for the project.
“I wasn’t surprised,” said Chet Ross, president of the Greater Freeland Chamber of Commerce and a prime mover for sewers. “We weren’t shovel-ready.”
Shannon Schrecengost of Freelend was one of a team of four researchers from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma who received an Emmy Award for a documentary about drugs and guns.
Glass blowers and soap makers appear to have the inside track for the city’s vacant fire station on Second Street.
With cleanup nearly finished in soggy Glendale, residents and the county appear to be on their own when it comes to covering the estimated $5 million in flood losses.
The Freeland Cat Adoption Center is flush for another year.
A South End man has donated $40,000 to Whidbey Animals’ Improvement Foundation, and $30,000 of it will go to keep the nonprofit’s Freeland cat center running. The center’s current funding is about to run out.
A six-month extension of the city’s moratorium on subdivisions was approved, and increases in stormwater utility rates moved one step closer to adoption at Monday night’s Langley City Council meeting.
The city’s waterfront spots are the favorite of the more than 200 residents who responded to a city survey.
Island commuters who keep a car in Mukilteo to avoid waiting in line for the ferry are rapidly losing their overnight parking spots.
As many as 300 islanders keep an extra car on the mainland to avoid the hassles of driving on. But by September, there may be no overnight parking spots left.
The latest in a series of community update meetings about progress being made to clean up Holmes Harbor will be this week in Freeland.
A mobile-home fire in Freeland and a power pole knocked down by a vehicle on Honeymoon Bay Road that disrupted electrical service to 350 customers highlighted the Memorial Day weekend, emergency officials said.
Krista Drechsel will have a Memorial Day to remember.
The 11-year-old South Whidbey Intermediate School fifth-grader is this year’s Poppy Girl. She’ll lay a wreath at Bayview Cemetery on Monday morning in honor of those who took part in the nation’s wars.
Perry McClellan of Langley thinks Memorial Day should be about more than patriotism and saluting the flag. It also needs to address the toll taken on the human spirit.
The city’s not likely to revise its zoning code anytime soon to allow shorter rental periods in residential neighborhoods, Langley Planning Director Larry Cort said this week.
