After 26 years in the South Whidbey School District, school is finally out for Sue Terhar. She’s going to focus on the little things, such as tending to her yard or traveling to Alaska to see her grandchildren, and is counting down the days until her Aug. 31 retirement.
Before Langley can improve its standing as an arts-centric town, the public’s support needs to be reaffirmed.
A nighttime fire that destroyed a barn in Clinton last week has been officially deemed suspicious, the Island County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Monday.
Neither South Whidbey wrestler Chase Barthlett nor boys golfer Anton Klein have been to Australia. This summer, that will change.
The pair will represent Washington in their respective sports during international tournaments in late-June, early July.
Finding a balance between sand shrimpers and whale watchers will be the million dollar question moving forward for the Washington Department of Natural Resources.
As the new kid in school two and a half years ago, Elshadai Hailu could have blended in without a peep. Instead, she did the opposite.
Last Saturday, Hailu graduated from South Whidbey High School alongside 119 other seniors. It capped off the two and a half years Hailu spent actively involved in government, clubs and after-school activities, after moving to South Whidbey from Ethiopia in 2014. Arguably her biggest contribution was serving as South Whidbey School District’s student representative for a year, which she said was a means of getting to know and becoming involved with the community.
While one journey is over for 120 students of South Whidbey High School, another is just beginning.
It’s a day that almost all high school students covet and dream of. On Thursday afternoon, the unmistakable feeling of accomplishment was evident on the faces of South Whidbey Academy graduates.
At a commencement ceremony in the school’s gym/cafeteria, eight students received their diplomas. Some, such as Nicole Loff, will move off the island to pursue their academic careers. Others, like Destiny Sutton, will stay close to home until moving forward to the next phase of their lives.
For a lucky few, it was the performance they’d been waiting for all season. For most of the other South Whidbey track and field athletes competing at the class 1A state championships May 26-28 in Cheney, it was the end of what has otherwise been a successful year.
A public hearing Monday about Langley’s proposed sewer rate hikes saw little concern, and the city council is now poised to OK the increases at its next meeting.
South Whidbey High School’s five valedictorians don’t consider themselves to be the smartest people in school.
It was their work ethic, diligent classwork and the inner voices in their heads that told them, “Keep going” that separated them from the rest of the pack.
Seniors Chandler Hagglund, Iona Rohan, Amara Garibyan, Jing Wu and Mallorie Mitchem are the 2016 valedictorians. The five had to triumph in everything from late-night study sessions to skipping social events with friends. The reward, in their eyes, is a sense of accomplishment and a polished demeanor they will carry into the next phases of their lives, namely college. Homework assignment after homework assignment, class after class, the five college-bound seniors maintained 4.0-grade-point averages over four years at South Whidbey High School.
Kody Newman jumped with excitement when he heard the news.
Barely a week after administrators cut 6.5 positions in the South Whidbey School District, the school board gave the district’s top two officials a 6.8 percent raise.
