JoAnn Buff of Sno-Isle Libraries looked around the meeting room at the Freeland Library. She was impressed.
It was time for the Pacific Science Center program “Sand-Tastic,” and more than 50 kids and 25 adults were packed into the library for a summertime reading program where kids could learn the scientific secrets of sand.
On Thursday afternoon, under sublime sunshine and surrounded by luscious vegetables, the board members, staff and supporters of Good Cheer Food Bank and Thrift Stores celebrated the tremendous community support they’ve received toward making South Whidbey hunger-free.
After 22 years of providing services and a safe place for South Whidbey youths to go after school, the South Whidbey Youth Connection and its most successful program, The Hub, are closing.
Local birding experts will once again offer Whidbey Audubon’s popular course, “Birds of Whidbey Island.”
Organizers still need about 60 or so volunteers for the Whidbey Island Triathlon.
This August marks the 41st anniversary of Lolita’s capture from her family, the Southern Resident orcas, in Penn Cove. To commemorate this anniversary, Orca Network is holding its annual event in Coupeville on the waters and shore of Penn Cove to remember all the orcas who died during the captures or in captivity, and to honor Lolita, or Tokitae, the sole survivor of those taken from the Southern Resident orcas, held in a small tank at the Miami Seaquarium since 1970.
LANGLEY — The Village by the Sea nearly turned into the City of Congeniality during Thursday’s forum for city council candidates in August’s Primary Election.
The South Whidbey School Board redefined and approved its tobacco and harassment policies at its meeting Wednesday, as well as approving the food service contract for Chartwells through September 2012 and an agreement with the Public School Employees of South Whidbey.
Mark Vance of Island Transit is the winner of the local 2011 Bus Roadeo.
GREENBANK — Loganberry Festival brought a crowd, even if it didn’t have many loganberries.
The U.S. Postal Service said it would close post office branches across the country on Tuesday, but facilities on South Whidbey seem to have escaped the cuts.
LANGLEY – The South Whidbey School Board approved the school district’s $15 million budget for the next school year.
The Find-a-Job Club will next meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 2 in Langley.