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A water bottle full of tap water from the Valley High Park water supply, July 30. (Photo by Caitlyn Anderson)

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Mobile park with failed septic, tainted water seeks to annex

When sewage started leaking from a pipe under a home in a mobile park, it reeked for over…

Farmer Kyle Flack pets a cow from the Bell’s Farm heard of ancient white park cattle, July 30. (Photo by Caitlyn Anderson)

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Historic Bell’s Farm on the market after 78 years

When the “for sale” sign went up, some felt that a piece of their childhoods was vanishing too.

Photo by Caitlyn Andrson
Peaches grow in the Oak Harbor Food Forest, July 19.

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City looks at options for changing park ownership

The Oak Harbor council discussed ordinance 1999 for a final time before they will act on Aug.13.

Photo by Sam Fletcher
Tom Cross, WhidbeyHealth paramedic, loads into an ambulance with his partner.

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EMS levy renewal to fund equipment upgrades, prevention programs and more

The EMS levy shows how time, money and life are intimately intertwined.

The tide consolidated a line of crab molts and other beach debris on Penn Cove this week. (Photo courtesy of Anne Dohmeier)

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Molts decorate Whidbey beaches, not dead crabs

There hasn’t been a documented crab die-off, in fact, quite the opposite.

The Whispering Pines Cooperative, a 55-manufactured-home, resident-owned community on North Whidbey, discovered two types of polyfluoroalkyl substance, or PFAS, contamination. (Photo provided)

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Neighborhood in limbo over contaminated well

A resident-owned community on North Whidbey discovered two types of PFAS contamination in its water.

Photo by Sam Fletcher
Weston Stewart reveals his catch in Cornet Bay.

Sports

Whidbey Island crabbing season hits a high-water mark

July marked the beginning of the recreational crabbing season surrounding the whole of Whidbey and, according to longtime…

Western toads are large, ranging in color from brown, green, olive, gray and maroon, with a blunt head, stout body, broad waist, short legs and warty skin. They make a mellow “chirrup” or high pitched “plinking” sound and, according to the department of Fish & Wildlife, many males vocalizing together sound like cackling Canada geese. They persist in every single ecoregion Washington has to offer. (Photo provided)

Life

Whidbey has a toad-crossing zone

A low-key but important migration is happening on North Whidbey this month.

Surveying molts is easier than up-turning rocks and chasing down live crabs. In four-person teams, surveyors scour the beach for 20 minutes, logging the data into an app. (Photo provided)

Life

Citizen scientists on the prowl for invasive crab

One of the world’s most evasive species has been found on Whidbey Island in small numbers.

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Republicans challenge Shavers for District 10 seat

Shavers faces a city council member and veteran and a self-described constitutionalist and Navy wife

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Hypnotherapist Jenna Alexander smiles from behind her desk in her office, July 8.

Business

Dew-Dropping the old ways: South Whidbey hypnotist reframes reality with heightened suggestibility

Dewdrop Hypnotherapy opened in Freeland about a decade ago.

The one-story manufactured home on Carl Avenue was destroyed completely Saturday night. (Photo courtesy of Ricardo De Castro)

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North Whidbey house destroyed in fire

Nobody was injured in a house fire early Saturday morning in North Whidbey.

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Tugboat grounded at Pass

First responders, the Coast Guard and a commercial towboat were dispatched to a stranded tugboat.