Following a unified community effort for ferry improvements on the South End, Senator Barbara Bailey, R-Oak Harbor, said at an election forum Wednesday night that she has formally requested Washington State Ferries to assign the Suquamish, the fourth 144-car ferry, to the Clinton-to-Mukilteo route.
South Whidbey sophomore Callahan Yale’s goal was simple coming into Thursday’s Cascade Conference Invitational at South Whidbey High School: Get better.
It was one of the best matches South Whidbey girl’s soccer team had played all season, yet the end result was a 3-0 loss to Cedarcrest on Sept. 28.
What gives? The answers — there are several of them — lie in the details.
Don’t be surprised if the melodies of Pharrell William’s “Happy” start echoing through the streets of Langley.
Langley was recently nominated as a finalist in Coastal Living magazine’s list of America’s Happiest Seaside Towns in 2017. The Village by the Sea, which overlooks Saratoga Passage, is the first town from Washington to be nominated for the annual list and is among 10 vying for the top spot.
In an effort to prevent drug and vagrant activity as well as vandalism at Seawall Park, the Langley City Council gave a preliminary OK to an ordinance that will close the park from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m.
If Langley is to remain true to its “Village by the Sea” moniker, improved accessibility to Seawall Park is of utmost importance. Though the Seawall Park Ad Hoc Committee was just getting its feet wet at its first meeting Tuesday, committee members know that much.
Based off a close 25-21 first-set victory over Cedarcrest on Monday night, it appeared South Whidbey’s volleyball team would have its work cut out for it.
Looking at a stack of 121 client files on her desk, Island County Housing Support Center Housing Navigator Malissa Taylor remembers a lot of stories, a lot of faces. Few, if any, of the memories are warming to the heart, but that’s the nature of her work.
Alex Bonesteel decided a long time ago that there’s no sense in being afraid of embarrassing himself. It’s an inevitable part of life.
What he can control, however, is when and how he’ll embarrass himself. That time is 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1 during the 2016 Mr. South Whidbey Pageant at Freeland Hall.
Langley’s parks will remain hourless for the time being, the city council decided Monday.
The parks’ hours of operation may also remain unchanged until 2017 if the council opts to take the advice of the Langley Parks and Open Space Commission, which recommended the council table the issue for half a year until further examination of increased patrol activity and cleanup efforts of heroin syringes found around Seawall Park are made.
Programs seem to be a more prized possession in the South Whidbey School District than its buildings following a community planning meeting Wednesday night in the commons of South Whidbey High School.
Around 50 people attended the meeting and their input spoke strongly for consolidation of more of the district’s school facilities. The goal for the meeting was to discuss ways to reduce the district’s footprint while maintaining or enhancing its programs.
When South Whidbey football’s season began, coaches and players knew there would be some challenges ahead. Among the biggest was fielding a young, inexperienced and small Falcon squad following a 1-9 season in 2015.
They didn’t know a giant would also be standing in their way.
The Falcons (0-4 overall, 0-2 in the Cascade Conference) forfeited their game against Archbishop Murphy on Friday night due to a scarce roster and a competitive disadvantage, administrators said.
The following are segments of stories taken from the front pages of the Whidbey Island Record 25 and 15 years ago on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 1991 and Saturday, Sept. 22, 2001.
