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Photo from NWESD Regional High School Art Show winner’s gallery. Joel Bennett won Best in Show with this pointillism piece, titled “For N.”

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Wildcats win big at regional art show

Wildcats’ drawings, paintings and clay creations nabbed nine of 15 spots in a regional art show.

Photo via Oak Harbor Library on Facebook. This memory kit program isn’t new to the Sno-Isle libraries, though it is new to Island County, Lopez-Santillana explained.

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Library offers kits to help with memory loss

Memory care kits stimulate memory and connection through multi-sensory activities.

Photo by Allyson Ballard. Students from the high school’s Flight Club flew drones in demonstration for the News-Times.

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Oak Harbor launches drone classes

Students learn to repair, pilot and program drones by taking Oak Harbor High School’s drone classes.

Nathan Welton
Photographer David Welton.

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The lens of Whidbey: From saving hearts to saving moments

Retired cardiologist David Welton documents Whidbey Island life in photos.

Photo provided. Island Shakespeare Festival is traveling around Whidbey Island on a spring tour dubbed “Shakespeare in a Backpack.”

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The Bard in a Backpack: Shakespeare troupe tours Whidbey to promote summer season

Shakespeare is hitting the road again, this time with Hamlet and a Happy Hour.

Photo by Sarah Geist. The vessel, deemed the “Pacific Northwest Carrier,” has sailed across the world to deter aggressors and ensure maritime safety since it was commissioned on May 3, 1975.

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Historic aircraft carrier floats by for last time

The USS Nimitz passed Whidbey Island for the final time before being decommissioned.

Beth Herrild

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South Whidbey at Home celebrates 10 years of helping neighbors

The organization is a membership-based nonprofit supporting older South Whidbey residents.

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Festival presents early chamber music on period instruments

“Folk, Baroque and Beyond: Airs from Three Centuries” takes place at 7:30 p.m., on Sunday evening, March 22.

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Swap seeds and plants at gardeners’ event

Event is hosted by Master Gardeners, Deer Lagoon Grange and South Whidbey Tilth.

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OutCast Productions presents ‘Alabaster,’ a southern drama

The production opens Friday, March 13 and runs through March 29 at the Black Box Theatre in Langley.

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St. Pat pancake breakfast to benefit Whidbey’s seniors

Island Senior Resources aims to raise awareness of its services with the event.

WICA Executive Artistic Director Deana Duncan poses in new seats, part of a renovation that closed the main stage theater for two months.

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’Take a seat in our future,’ WICA offers as its renovated center re-opens Saturday

The March 14 grand re-opening of the Michael Nutt Mainstage will feature Whidbey Island Orchestra

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T Kira Madden, who has lived through stalking and court proceedings, said learning to rely on herself in solitude was part of the experience at Hedgebrook.

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Island retreat for writers helped inspire ‘Whidbey’ novel

T Kira Madden’s work explores the stories of three women in the immediate aftermath of a murder.