Joey Shapiro Key, 36, was among the 1,000 scientists, engineers, and graduate students who made the landmark discovery announced earlier this month — a story that has made headlines around the globe. Naturally, she’s pretty excited about the breakthrough.
It was a stretch of five minutes unlike any South Whidbey High School girls basketball coach Andy Davis had seen all season.
A fire at a commercial storage facility in Freeland this weekend caused an estimated $85,000 in damages.
South Whidbey’s own will be represented at a festival featuring tomorrow’s top youth jazz performers.
Long before the season began, South Whidbey High School head wrestling coach Jim Thompson took a gamble by booking a pair of hotel rooms in Tacoma.
The pressure is on for South Whidbey senior Madison Evans.
Voters appeared to have overwhelmingly approved South Whidbey School District’s Proposition No. 1 Replacement Maintenance and Operation Levy.
When Langley Middle School jazz band students call first-year band director Nick Delmedico a goof ball, they mean it in a good way.
The 24-year-old Central Washington University graduate has done more than make a good impression on his band in their first six months together.
For South Whidbey seniors Rohini Mikkelsen and Chandler Hagglund, the school’s first annual showcase in 2015 was a success in all but one area: attendance.
Mikkelsen, the associated student body president, and Hagglund, the class treasurer, are working alongside school administrators and teachers to make this year’s event widely attended.
South Whidbey’s girls basketball team lost in overtime to Nooksack Valley, 54-45, on Monday night at Erikson Gymnasium in the first round of the 1A District 1 tournament.
South Whidbey led for most of the game and led 34-27 entering the fourth quarter. But, following midrange baskets by Falcon juniors Kacie Hanson and Kinsey Eager which pushed South Whidbey ahead by nine, the Pioneers went on a 12-0 run.
For everyone but South Whidbey girls basketball senior Morgan Davis, Monday night’s playoff game will be a new experience.
If ever there was a time for South Whidbey senior guard Chase White to come through for the Falcons, it was Senior Night.
It was chance that led 26-year-old Robbie Bozin to become head coach of the Langley Middle School wrestling team. Bozin, who works in the warehouse at the Freeland Country Store, spotted South Whidbey High School assistant coach Paul Newman wearing Falcon wrestling apparel. Bozin, a former collegiate wrestler and three-time state finalist at Carson High School in Carson City, Nev. in the mid-2000s, expressed his interest in coaching wrestling. As luck would have it, Newman told Bozin that the middle school wrestling program was in need after former coach David Monell stepped away.