FREELAND — Whidbey Island Share A Home has raised $15,600 during its third annual fundraiser.
“That is a fantastic number,” said WISH director Julie Pigott.
That’s $1,500 more than the nonprofit organization received last year, she said.
FREELAND — Nature is a teacher.
And South End writer Chris Highland of Langley should know. Highland has penned a nature meditations series and recently added two more books to his list.
LANGLEY — For more than 20 years, members of the Unity of Whidbey Church have looked to the day when they could worship in their own home.
That day could arrive as early as November, with a little help from students at Seattle Central Community College and South Whidbey local Frank Mestemacher.
SCATCHET HEAD — Fire tore through the kitchen of a double-wide mobile home in Clinton Sunday afternoon.
The owner of the mobile home in the 7800 block of Decatur Avenue was not home at the time. Neighbors noticed smoke coming through the windows and called 911, Fire District 3 officials said.
Deputies from the Island County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Clinton man and seized marijuana plants with an estimated street value of nearly $15,000 during a raid early Tuesday evening.
“We served a search warrant for a marijuana grow operation in Clinton and recovered more than 50 starter plants, six plants 3 feet or taller and two dozen big, fully-mature plants that were drying,” said Island County Undersheriff Kelly Mauck.
CLINTON — For years the Schultz family has looked the other way when hunters used their wooded lands to hunt.
There was a lot of land and a lot of trees; about 180 acres worth on their property near Heggenes Road.
LANGLEY — South Whidbey schools continue to make progress with their school improvement plan goals, school officials told South Whidbey school board members at their most recent workshop.
Incorporation by any other name is still incorporation.
But supporters of cityhood in Freeland recently changed the name of their group to Freeland City Committee in an effort to distance themselves from the term “incorporation.”
At least seven homes have been burglarized in Freeland during the past month.
From Harbor Hills to Mutiny Bay, homes that have been sitting empty have been targeted. Most homeowners only discovered the crimes after returning to Whidbey Island for a visit.
Norma Smith of Clinton got the nod Tuesday to fill Chris Strow’s vacant seat in the state House of Representatives.
Strow resigned last year from his job as 10th District representative to spend more time with his family. Smith, a Republican party insider, was unanimously picked during a meeting of GOP leaders at the Snohomish County administration building in Everett.
POSSESSION POINT — Some say the best spot on Whidbey Island is a home on the beach.
But forage fish such as surf smelt and sand lancers also make their homes near Whidbey’s shores and spawn on the upper portions of beaches.
Torture is a moral issue and Americans have the responsibility to stop the use of torture. That is the message a coalition of local religious groups would like to send to Congress and to fellow Americans.
SEATTLE — Nichols Brothers auctioned off its assets during a bidding war earlier this week to a Texas-based capital investment group. The Freeland shipyard was purchased Ice Floe, a limited liablity corporation backed by Treadstone Capital Management, L.P. of Dallas and Joseph E. Usibelli, of Alaska, for nearly $9.2 million.
