Gene White, president of the Global Child Nutrition Foundation and a Good Cheer Food Bank board member, will be the guest speaker at the South Whidbey Lion Club’s meeting this week.
FREELAND – A driver hit the back end of a loaded logging truck and was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after an early morning crash on Highway 525 at Scott Road early Wednesday morning.
State Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen’s decision to support same-sex marriage is getting a grateful reaction in Langley.
Haugen, a 10th District lawmaker, said she would vote for a proposed law that would make Washington the seventh state in the union to allow same-sex marriages.
An estimated 170 people filled St. Augustine’s in-the-Woods Episcopal church in Freeland for the 7th annual “Blessed Are the Peace Makers” Martin Luther King, Jr. Day event Jan. 16.
Four days is a lot to make up in a 180-day school year.
That’s the task at hand for South Whidbey School District after a week of snow days. With at least 10 inches of snow on the South End last week, District Superintendent Jo Moccia said the choice to cancel classes was “easy.”
Congressman Rick Larsen will hold a telephone town hall Wednesday to talk about jobs and offer his thoughts on President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address.
A meeting between South Whidbey Fire/EMS and state auditors has been rescheduled for 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26.
The Northwest Language Academy Cultural Center in Langley will hold a Chinese/Lunar New Year blessing from 5 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25.
A wind advisory is in effect for the Admiralty Inlet area, which includes Whidbey Island, until 3 a.m. Wednesday.
While other areas around Puget Sound faced flooding, power outages and falling trees during the weekend, South Whidbey was mostly quiet.
The early whale catches the worm.
Maybe that’s what brought No. 53, a gray whale that was first spotted last week and sighted again today, to the waters off the coast of Whidbey Island.
State Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen announced today she will support a proposed law allowing same-sex marriage.
Island County is looking for applicants to serve on the Farm/Agriculture Advisory Committee.