“This week tsunami hazard zone signs went up near beaches all along the west side of Whidbey Island, warning that the huge, powerful waves could flood the area any time a large earthquake sets Puget Sound quivering. From French and Sills roads near Maxwelton Beach to Mutiny Bay in Freeland and Coronet Bay on North Whidbey, the signs warn both locals and tourists that the best thing they can do in the event of an earthquake is to get away from the shoreline — fast.”
“It was hardly a marriage, but the Port of South Whidbey and City of Langley did a little courting Wednesday night.The question was, should the two entities join together to build slips for several hundred boats in Langley Harbor?”
Wow.That’s what people should think when they step inside the refurbished South Whidbey Historical Society Museum when it reopens this spring or summer.
South Whidbey marks holy events of the spring season.
“Neal and Linda Hooberman, shown here with daughter Julie Evans, top right, and son John Hooberman, bottom left, founded Whidbey Island’s Child Abuse Prevention Foundation six years ago. This April, during Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Awareness month, they will hand over the reins of the eminently successful program to a new president and board of directors.”
An armed robbery late Sunday put three South Whidbey men in jail by Monday night and has set the Island County Sheriff’s Department investigating the circumstances around the alleged crime.
Whidbey Islanders will have less time to fish for salmon due to the new seasons announced Friday by the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife.
South Whidbey was on opposite ends of outstanding pitching performances over the last two baseball games.
Pitcher carries Falcon fastpitch team to 10-0 victory
“At Langley Middle School, both students and teachers know how to spell winner — E-M-M-A.Seventh grader Emma Barker-Perez put herself in the school’s spelling hall of fame when she beat all-comers at a regional spelling bee in Mount Vernon to win a trip to the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C.”
“Glengarry Glen Ross is raw, well-acted.”
“A strange bit of irony hit home for Jack and Norma Metcalf this week when a dead gray whale washed up on their Saratoga Road beach Friday evening. Congressman Jack Metcalf was a vocal opponent of the the Makah Indian tribe’s gray whale hunt last year, during which tribe members managed to kill one whale.”
South Whidbey Schools put music in their hearts forever.