Following a bumpy start to food trucks in Langley this past June, Mayor Fred McCarthy is recommending citywide review of mobile food vendor rules, legal review of the ordinance and a revised application.
Six years into an ever-growing Island Shakespeare Festival, founder Rose Woods still worries that the tent will be empty.
The early bird gets the worm, and only the earliest of anglers can get the king.
Island Shakespeare Festival’s two 2015 productions are two sides to the same coin of humanity.
One side has the females of “The Tempest,” which opened this weekend; the other, “The Three Musketeers,” represents the male. They play on the themes of honor and power crafted by artistic director and founder Rose Woods, who is directing “The Tempest.”
Other than one Record reporter, a few passing cars and people walking by, Thomas Gill was all alone at his first meet-the-candidate stint Monday night.
Judging by the number of parked cars that choked the streets of Langley Saturday, the 40th annual Choochokam Arts Festival was a huge hit.
Langley mayoral and Whidbey General Hospital commissioner candidates shared a little more about their backgrounds and vision at the final scheduled public forum on South Whidbey before the primary election.
The people in charge of putting on the Whidbey Island Fair are quite the pair.
Carol Coble, 59, and Kiley Grant, 29, could be mother and daughter. In some ways, they kind of are. Grant was good friends with Coble’s daughter and they have known each for the past 20-plus years. They can finish each other’s sentences and are frank and honest with each other during their part-time duties as interim co-fair administrators.
The old fire station on Second Street will stay in Langley’s hands after all.
Council members entertained an offer to buy the building by current tenant Callahan McVay, but decided it was best to keep the building for now, during Monday’s regular city council meeting.
Langley mayoral hopeful Sharon Emerson made good on her hope to have small group or one-on-one chats with Langley residents this past weekend.
Wearing a bright yellow hat with “SHARON 4 MAYOR” written in blue across the front, and a white T-shirt that displayed her campaign logo and slogan, she met with members of the public at the Commons on Sunday.
Choochokam Arts Festival, one of Langley’s premier weekend events and biggest crowd pleasers, is turning 40 this weekend.
Admitting it made an error and wanting to fix it, the Langley City Council approved a handful of changes that will allow the city’s first food truck to keep operating this year.
The Langley City Council unanimously approved on Friday night a two-day stay of an order to desist business issued Thursday to food truck owner Joe Wierzbowski.
The city suspended the man’s mobile food vendor license for a violation of the ordinance’s maximum vehicle length. City code dictates that mobile food vehicles not exceed 20 feet, and Mayor Fred McCarthy said the city measured it at 25 feet, while he also said that the owner said it was 23.5 feet.
