The South Whidbey Record won 22 awards — including “General Excellence” honors — in this year’s Better Newspaper Contest, an annual competition sponsored by the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association.
School and district leaders on South Whidbey took the first formal step in addressing the failure to meet state-mandated student test score progress.
Island County Democrats announced the endorsement of five Democratic candidates after its regular quarterly meeting Wednesday in Oak Harbor.
Stop throwing money down the “rat hole” of a $40 million sewer project that’s opposed by most people who live in the Freeland area, residents told the board of the Freeland Water and Sewer District Monday.
Dozens of people brought their four-legged friends and family members to the annual Blessing of the Animals in celebration of St. Francis of Assisi at St. Augustine in-the-Woods Episcopal Church Sunday.
Island County commissioners voted 2-1 Monday to approve a request from the Whidbey Camano Land Trust for $310,000 in Conservation Futures funding to retire the debt on Trillium Community Forest.
A new automatic vending machine was recently installed at South Whidbey Commons to house the healthy food offered by Whidbey Island Nourishes.
Trinity Lutheran Church in Freeland distributed $20,000 to 16 charitable agencies on the local, regional, national and international level during its annual autumn “Donation Sunday” services Oct. 2.
Sarah Diers, a former South Whidbey science teacher and fisheries biologist, was elected to the Whidbey Watershed Stewards Board of Directors in September.
Clinton resident and author Kurt Hoelting is a finalist in the 2011 Washington State Book Awards.
“We did it!” Hannah Lee Jones reported after finishing the Ndoto Project bike ride from Seattle to San Francisco, Calif.
COUPEVILLE — A Freeland man accused of stabbing his mother and father after breaking into their Bush Point Terrace-area home was ordered held in the Island County jail on $500,000 bond Tuesday.
Officials with the Freeland Water and Sewer District said they are working resolve the problems that led to a recent audit from the state Auditor’s Office that called into question the district’s expenditures on its $40 million sewer project.