When osprey return to Whidbey Island from the south this spring they’ll find a few changes in their homes.
A possible case of brake failure caused Linda Heintz to crash her car into a tree Friday morning.
The tug pilots expected the Tokitae would be loaded late Friday afternoon and, if all went well, they would hold the barge overnight in Holmes Harbor, probably leaving with Saturday afternoon’s high tide.
The Tokitae, named after a killer whale captured in Penn Cove in the 1970s and still alive in a Miami aquarium, is the first of four planned 144-car ferries. Two are funded and Nichols Brothers will start work on the second, named the Samish, as the Tokitae makes its journey to Seattle.
The huge superstructure of the Tokitae, Washington State Ferries’ newest boat, will leave Nichols Brothers Boat Builders later this week. It was designed to carry 144 vehicles.
The mystery of the dead cow with the skin removed from half its face deepened this week with the discovery of a strange looking footprint.
Friday afternoon, the 100-foot long M/V Mystic Sea will carefully moor at Langley Marina for a two-month stay that should bring plenty of new tourists to Langley anxious to take the boat out to view gray whales.
Giving away air can be a complicated process, as the Port of South Whidbey is learning.
There’s a whodunit on South Whidbey and it has nothing to do with Langley’s Mystery Weekend.
High winds and heavy seas do not make for good boat launching conditions, so the new Washington State ferry partially built by Nichols Brothers Boat Builders will spend a little longer in Freeland than planned.
A $1 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency finally came through for the Port of South Whidbey, but a mystery remains how it will all be spent.
To avoid what is considered the catastrophic possibility of the county commissioners selecting Langley’s next mayor, the City Council met in a special session Wednesday to iron out the process of interviewing mayoral candidates 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19.
Property owners in the Holmes Harbor Sewer District will in all likelihood become the proud owners of a golf course soon, with documents expected to be signed Feb. 14.
South Whidbey Fire/EMS will get a new fire boat worth approximately $500,000 thanks to a federal grant confirmed this week by U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen.
