Island Transit’s proposal for a sales tax increase is still passing by a 54-45 percent difference, according to today’s vote tally from Island County elections staff.
With 2,000 votes left to count in Island County — the next update is 5 p.m. today, Aug. 19 — Island Transit has won its bid for a three-tenths of 1 percent increase in the county’s sales tax with a 54.7 percent margin.
Nichols Brothers Boat Builders will get nearly a million dollars federal stimulus funds, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray announced late Tuesday.
Now that Lynae Slinden has resigned her position as commissioner with the Port of South Whidbey, she has a few things on her mind.
It’s shaping up to be a November race between incumbent Fire District 3 Commissioner Mike Helland and former fire commissioner…
Island Transit’s request for a sales tax increase is passing convincingly in early vote returns. The measure was being approved…
Dean Enell and Chris Jerome are leading in the primary race for the Langley seat on the board of commissioners…
Brian Grimm would love to talk to the dead.
The annual Back to School Project sponsored by the nonprofit Island County Readiness to Learn Foundation is under way to give every student a chance to come to school prepared on the first day of class.
There will be a beer-making operation at Langley’s old fire station on Second Street, perhaps by early October.
A proposed ordinance fine-tuning development rules for Langley’s waterfront advanced at the Langley City Council meeting Monday night. The council…
There’s too much noise in downtown Langley, residents told the Langley City Council at its meeting Monday night.
In a unanimous 3-0 ruling, Island County commissioners approved a $500,000 loan application for a Washington Rural Development Loan submitted by the nonprofit Goosefoot Fund on Monday.
