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    Articles by Sam Fletcher
    A water bottle full of tap water from the Valley High Park water supply, July 30. (Photo by Caitlyn Anderson)
    Mobile park with failed septic, tainted water seeks...
    By Sam Fletcher • August 2, 2024 1:30 am

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

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    Farmer Kyle Flack pets a cow from the Bell’s Farm heard of ancient white park cattle, July 30. (Photo by Caitlyn Anderson)
    Historic Bell’s Farm on the market after 78...
    By Sam Fletcher • August 2, 2024 1:30 am

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

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    Photo by Caitlyn Andrson
Peaches grow in the Oak Harbor Food Forest, July 19.
    City looks at options for changing park ownership
    By Sam Fletcher • July 30, 2024 1:30 am

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

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    Photo by Sam Fletcher
Tom Cross, WhidbeyHealth paramedic, loads into an ambulance with his partner.
    EMS levy renewal to fund equipment upgrades, prevention...
    By Sam Fletcher • July 30, 2024 1:30 am

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

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    The tide consolidated a line of crab molts and other beach debris on Penn Cove this week. (Photo courtesy of Anne Dohmeier)
    Molts decorate Whidbey beaches, not dead crabs
    By Sam Fletcher • July 26, 2024 1:30 am

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

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    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)
    Neighborhood in limbo over contaminated well
    By Sam Fletcher • July 26, 2024 1:30 am

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

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    Photo by Sam Fletcher
Weston Stewart reveals his catch in Cornet Bay.
    Whidbey Island crabbing season hits a high-water mark
    By Sam Fletcher • July 24, 2024 1:30 am

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

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    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)
    Whidbey has a toad-crossing zone
    By Sam Fletcher • July 23, 2024 1:30 am

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

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    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)
    Citizen scientists on the prowl for invasive crab
    By Sam Fletcher • July 19, 2024 1:30 am

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

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    Shavers
    Republicans challenge Shavers for District 10 seat
    By Sam Fletcher • July 19, 2024 1:30 am

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

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    Photo by Caitlyn Anderson
Hypnotherapist Jenna Alexander smiles from behind her desk in her office, July 8.
    Dew-Dropping the old ways: South Whidbey hypnotist reframes...
    By Sam Fletcher • July 17, 2024 1:30 am

    Dewdrop Hypnotherapy opened in Freeland about a decade ago.

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    The one-story manufactured home on Carl Avenue was destroyed completely Saturday night. (Photo courtesy of Ricardo De Castro)
    North Whidbey house destroyed in fire
    By Sam Fletcher • July 17, 2024 1:30 am

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

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    Tugboat grounded at Pass
    Tugboat grounded at Pass
    By Sam Fletcher • July 12, 2024 1:30 am

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

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