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Crabbing season reopens around Whidbey

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Crabbing season reopens around Whidbey

Commercial crabbers aren’t the only ones setting and pulling autumn pots around Whidbey Island this year. That’s because…

Farm preserves salt-making tradition

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Farm preserves salt-making tradition

“We grow edible flowers, and we harvest salt from the cove.”

Splashing the fairgrounds with color

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Splashing the fairgrounds with color

Process painting workshop will teach the power of a paintbrush

Leo’s Place serves community

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Leo’s Place serves community

“Where are the organizations I can participate in?”

Celebration is brewing for Oktoberfest

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Celebration is brewing for Oktoberfest

When Langley celebrates autumn with a Bavarian-style Oktoberfest this month, don’t be surprised that a one-time home brewer…

Make a scarecrow this weekend at the Whidbey Island Fairgrounds

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Make a scarecrow this weekend at the Whidbey Island Fairgrounds

Ever since the first known scarecrows flopped over Egyptian wheat fields lining the Nile River, they’ve been linked…

Soundview Center brings wellness to Whidbey

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Soundview Center brings wellness to Whidbey

An air of renewal and regeneration flows quietly through the halls and art-filled open spaces of the repurposed…

Blooms Winery owner Virginia Bloom inspects rhubarb in the winery garden, which is used to make the award-winning Blooms Ambrosia Wine. Photo by Wendy Leigh/South Whidbey Record

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Winery’s bistro blooms

On a week devoted to all things Whidbey Island Grown, it’s hard to imagine a place that more…

Stone and rock artist Rick Hahn from Earth2Art Studio prepares an artisan water fountain for the Whidbey Island Grown Week open studio hosted by himself and fellow artist/wife Rayna Hahn. Photo by Wendy Leigh/Whidbey News Group

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Whidbey Island Grown Week grows with the flow

If there’s one thing that brings north and south islanders together every year, it’s Whidbey Island Grown Week.

Whidbey Island Grown Week grows with the flow

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Whidbey Island Grown Week grows with the flow

If there’s one thing that brings north and south islanders together every year, it’s Whidbey Island Grown Week.

Bob Brunjes, distiller at Cultus Bay Distillery, will teach a class at the Whidbey Island Harvest Festival on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. Photo by Wendy Leigh/South Whidbey Record                                 Bob Brunjes, distiller at Cultus Bay Distillery, will teach a class at the Whidbey Island Harvest Festival on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. Photo by Wendy Leigh/South Whidbey Record

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Whidbey Island Harvest Festival offers a captivating cornucopia of classes

Harvest Festival covers everything from building clay ovens to distilling whiskey

Workers Mason Tau, right, and Barry Brown, left, begin restoration project at Bayview Community Hall in Sept. 2019 after community meets its fundraising goal. Photo by Wendy Leigh/South Whidbey Record

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Bayview Hall getting spruced up this fall

“Honey, we’re gonna paint the town tonight.”

Students set sail to save the Salish Sea

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Students set sail to save the Salish Sea

When the first of 200-plus elementary students from the South Whidbey School District stepped aboard vessels in the…