It was a mob scene outside Langley Middle School last week, as hundreds of students formed a human chair for principal Rod Merrell to run through. Merrell was getting set to leave Whidbey to run in the legendary 114th Boston Marathon in Massachusetts.
It was a mob scene outside Langley Middle School last week, as hundreds of students formed a human chair for principal Rod Merrell to run through. Merrell was getting set to leave Whidbey to run in the legendary 114th Boston Marathon in Massachusetts.
Merrell finished the 26.2-mile course in a respectable time of 3 hours, 30 minutes, 50 seconds. The winner, Kenya’s Robert Cheruiyot, finished in a marathon-record time of 2:05.52.
A driver escaped without injury when his delivery truck suddenly caught on fire on South Whidbey.
About 67,000 travelers are expected to take a ferry either to or from Whidbey this Thanksgiving.
A new affordable housing project is on the horizon for Coupeville.
