Sheilah Crider, who was appointed Island County Auditor in January, was being elected in her own right to the post on Tuesday.
The Front Room of the Cash Store at Bayview Corner will be converted to office and retail space in January, according to the building’s owner.
It’ll cost half as much as previously estimated to bring Langley Middle School up to current seismic standards, South Whidbey School District officials were told Friday.
A complaint filed by the group running the anti-PUD effort on Whidbey Island is being looked into by the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission, the agency confirmed Monday.
The first of four sleek twin-hull passenger ferries destined for the San Francisco Bay Area is being prepared for sea trials at the Langley marina.
Built by Nichols Brothers Boat Builders of Freeland, the $8.8 million catamaran “Gemini” was launched last week and towed to Langley for finishing work.
A champion of preservation, the Port of Coupeville bought the endangered Greenbank Farm in 1997.
Now, as in a Western-movie shootout, it’s trying not to “buy the farm.”
“In a nutshell, the port bit off more than it could chew, and it’s been chewing on it ever since,” said Jim Patton, the port’s executive director.
From up in the stands behind home plate in Cheney Stadium in Tacoma, Donna and John Riley of Langley got a taste of big-time politics in 2008.
They were among the estimated 12,000 people who crammed the 9,500-seat stadium to hear Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware on Sunday.
Susan Specht likes to take the long view.
“I’m an optimist by nature,” the Seattle businesswoman said. “This is my retirement plan.”
Why else would she put up a new office building in Freeland, where there’s a mini-glut of empty commercial space, at a time when she admits the economy keeps her up at night?
Two students have been kicked out of school for a year after a shotgun was discovered in a pick-up truck at South Whidbey High School.
If one door is pushed shut in politics, there’s always another one to knock on.
Two years ago, longtime educator Tim Knue, 54, of Conway, came in a strong second to Barbara Bailey in the battle for state representative from the 10th Legislative, District Position 2.
Daisy will finish out its days doing what it was made for, responding to emergencies.
Island County Fire District commissioners handed over the keys to its reserve fire engine Thursday to representatives of Whitman County Fire Protection District 10.
The annual Trash & Treasure Sale at St. Augustine in-the-Woods Episcopal Church in Freeland will be from
9 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at the church.
The South Whidbey Garden Club, in cooperation with the Clinton Progressive Association, owner and operator of the Clinton Community Hall, planted a 15-foot Frazier fir on community hall property on Tuesday
