Harry Case, 81, a retired Seattle Symphony trombonist, has donated a conservation easement on the South Whidbey forest he has owned and nurtured for 63 years.
The easement relinquishes future development rights. Without the easement, the mature conifer forest could be clear cut and subdivided into 35 homesites.
Nichols Brothers Boat Builders in Freeland stands to benefit directly if the state builds three more 64-car ferries in the next four years.
South Whidbey’s newest church building was dedicated Sunday afternoon, a work of togetherness mirroring the philosophy of its denomination.
There’s renewed interest in Langley’s vacant fire station. Three new proposals and a recycled one are being considered by city staff.
New ideas include a fitness and boxing center, an expanded Whidbey Island Soap Company and a local artisan marketplace.
sland County Fire District 3’s paid on-call firefighter program will end April 1, a victim of the economy. The district’s three commissioners unanimously agreed to drop the program to make up a projected $90,000 budget shortfall.
The fourth in a series of five large tugboats being built by Nichols Brothers Boat Builders of Freeland has been launched and is undergoing sea trials and fitting at Langley Marina. Meanwhile, the company is still waiting to secure financing for a $25 million barge-building contract that would provide jobs for as many as 75 new employees.
Residents along Saratoga Passage are concerned that shrimp harvesters are depleting the traditional feeding grounds of the gray whales that have been stopping for lunch on their annual journey from Mexico to Alaska.
Students at South Whidbey Primary School will have to find another place to avoid the rain at recess.
The covered play area between buildings on the south side of the school has been closed after a seismic study determined that it isn’t up to state earthquake standards.
Six years from now, city property owners should be paying more than seven and a half times as much as they do now to get rid of stormwater, according to a preliminary report prepared for the city council.
rethe Cammermeyer of Langley bit off a mouthful when she became the South End representative on the Whidbey General Hospital board of directors. But she’s chewing as fast as she can.
Juli An Panfilio considers herself to be a merchant for the Self.
“People who come in here get to take off their facade and be real,” she said. “They’re able to just be. That’s what makes this place really great.”
Panfilio, 48, is owner of Living Green Natural Food & Apothecary, an oasis of “nourishment” in a vintage building with a big white “Langley” painted on the wall at Second Street and De Bruyn Avenue, surrounded by storage lockers and a couple of metal sculptures at the top of the hill out of downtown.
Oliver went out on a limb the day he decided he was an outdoor cat.
The limb, unfortunately, was about 80 feet up a Western red cedar tree.
In the face of an “alarming increase” in chlamydia and other sexually transmitted infections among Island County youths, condoms will be made available beginning next week at a teen drop-in center in Langely.
