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    Articles by Wendy Leigh
    Crabbing season reopens around Whidbey
    Crabbing season reopens around Whidbey
    By Wendy Leigh • October 8, 2019 1:30 am

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

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    Farm preserves salt-making tradition
    Farm preserves salt-making tradition
    By Wendy Leigh • October 8, 2019 1:30 am

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

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    Splashing the fairgrounds with color
    Splashing the fairgrounds with color
    By Wendy Leigh • October 4, 2019 1:30 am

    Process painting workshop will teach the power of a paintbrush

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    Leo’s Place serves community
    Leo’s Place serves community
    By Wendy Leigh • October 4, 2019 1:30 am

    “Where are the organizations I can participate in?”

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    Celebration is brewing for Oktoberfest
    Celebration is brewing for Oktoberfest
    By Wendy Leigh • October 1, 2019 1:30 am

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

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    Make a scarecrow this weekend at the Whidbey Island Fairgrounds
    Make a scarecrow this weekend at the Whidbey...
    By Wendy Leigh • October 1, 2019 1:30 am

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

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    Soundview Center brings wellness to Whidbey
    Soundview Center brings wellness to Whidbey
    By Wendy Leigh • September 28, 2019 1:30 am

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

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    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
    Winery’s bistro blooms
    By Wendy Leigh • September 27, 2019 1:30 am

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

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    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
    Whidbey Island Grown Week grows with the flow
    By Wendy Leigh • September 24, 2019 1:30 am

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

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    Whidbey Island Grown Week grows with the flow
    Whidbey Island Grown Week grows with the flow
    By Wendy Leigh • September 24, 2019 1:30 am

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

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    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
    Whidbey Island Harvest Festival offers a captivating cornucopia...
    By Wendy Leigh • September 24, 2019 1:30 am

    Harvest Festival covers everything from building clay ovens to distilling whiskey

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    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
    Bayview Hall getting spruced up this fall
    By Wendy Leigh • September 24, 2019 1:30 am

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

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    Students set sail to save the Salish Sea
    Students set sail to save the Salish Sea
    By Wendy Leigh • September 20, 2019 1:30 am

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

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