“Think it’s expensive to commute to the mainland now? Just wait until early next year.Now that hundreds of thousands of Washington drivers have taken full advantage of the $30 car license tabs delivered via Initiative 695, they may just have to turn around this summer and vote to spend the savings on ferry fares.”
“Volleyball teams continue to win, while basketball results vary.”
“Photographer and filmmaker Sharon Shoemaker of Clinton will present a preview showing of her new short film, “Drinking Water from a Black Toilet,” Saturday at the Bayview Gallery.”
“More than halfway through their season schedule, South Whidbey High School’s girl basketball players are looking almost unbeatable. At home Friday night, the Falcons gave their fans their money’s worth, using the second and fourth quarters of a 61-33 league win against Mount Baker to climb nearer the summit in the North Cascades League.”
“Although the man himself must seem a mythical figure to these young minds, the lessons Dr. Martin Luther King preached were not lost on the students at South Whidbey Primary School. In a special assembly on Friday, the youngsters paid a creative and personal tribute to the fallen civil rights leader and his life’s work.”
“Digging themselves out of a huge first-half hole to eventually take an eight-point lead late in the game against lowly Mount Baker, the South Whidbey boys basketball team looked like they were on there way to a fourth consecutive win and another step closer to earning a playoff berth.OOPS, someone forgot to tell the Mountaineers.”
Local musicians Jim Page and Timothy Hull present an evening of video and music at the Smilin’ Dog in Bayview this Friday.
“A scant audience dominated by critics of state spending greeted Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen and Rep. Dave Anderson at the Bayview Senior Center Saturday afternoon. The most vocal members of the audience wanted the state to spend less, even in the face of I-695, which slashed revenues from the Motor Vehicle Excise Tax by $750 million a year.”
“The Kitsap cuts through whitecaps Sunday on the Clinton-Mukilteo run shortly before the storm prompted the cancellation of several ferry runs. Blasted by winds peaking as high as 54 mph Sunday evening, South Whidbey got its first real taste of winter for the first time in the new millennium. And, for the first time in several years, the Clinton-Mukilteo ferries had to beg off of several runs due to high seas.”
Crime and criminals on South Whidbey.
“During a public meeting last week, the Island Transit Board of Directors heard from a group of people who say maintaining a fare-free bus system in the county is wrong — particularly when county taxpayers may soon be asked to pay more to keep it that way”
South Whidbey High School wrestlers won their final regular season home match Thursday by downing North Cascades League rival Granite Falls 47-10.
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