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A rendering, created with the use of AI technology, shows what the cottages could look like.

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Upcoming meeting to discuss affordable cottages project

Whidbey Island Living Legacy, or WILL, is planning the development of six cottage homes.

Seventeen-year-old Owen Roberson chills on a rock far out in the water off of Fort Casey State Park on Central Whidbey on Saturday. The weekend was unseasonably warm and sunny, but cool and wet weather returned this week with a vengeance. Temperatures with lows in the 40s and rain nearly every day in predicted.

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A place in the sun

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Share stories of ‘Jeff the Giant’

Pangburn’s family and SPiN Cafe are hosting the informal memorial at 1-3 p.m. at The Center.

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Transit employee is a supported employment success story

Custodian Chris Londo was recognized with an ‘Employee of the Half’ award.

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UPS driver recognized for saving Oak Harbor man

Henry Kennedy, 92, fell and injured himself. Blake King heard him yelling for help.

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Sea Cadets wielded flags at the Veterans Day Parade in Oak Harbor last year.

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Whidbey Island celebrates Veterans Day

On Nov. 11, Oak Harbor Navy League is hosting a Veterans Day ceremony at 11 a.m. in the…

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Island musicians come together to fight hunger

Whidbey Rising will begin at 2 p.m. on Nov. 22 at the Coupeville High School Performing Arts Center.

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Chad Hadwick (Kyle Collins) and Kat McMath (Betsy Kohler Harvey) share an embrace.

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Musical set on Whidbey coming to OutCast theater

Romance, community theater, a ghost and more feature in a homegrown production set on Whidbey Island

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Painting a legacy: South Whidbey artist still going at age 104

Whidbey is home to many artists but few have been creating art for as long as Gaylen Hansen.

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Dead again

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Krista Vanicsek loads her car up with produce for the food pantry. (Photo provided)

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Whidbey community members help hungry neighbors

Amid this uncertainty, two Whidbey residents decided to act.

Krista Vanicsek started a GoFundMe me for “Jeff the Giant” after his selfless act in his attempt to save 15-year-old Grace Horn from a burning car.

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Oak Harbor’s gentle, troubled ‘giant’ mourned

Jeffery Pangburn, ‘Jeff the Giant,’ passed away in his truck in Oak Harbor in the morning of Nov.…

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Skagit Valley College to host a military, veteran registration event

The registration event is 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 3 at Mount Vernon and Whidbey Island…