A close friend once asked Maxwelton resident Marybeth Dickerson a question. If you could follow any career path, what would you choose?
Her answer was simple: to promote a paleo diet. So she built a commercial kitchen, started mass producing her children’s’ favorite grainless granola recipe, Primal Island paleo granola, and has never looked back.
A joyrider’s fun at Community Park has forced several South Whidbey athletic teams to practice elsewhere and rankled facility officials.
Tucked away in a garage space next door to Bailey’s Corner Store in Cultus Bay, two beer scientists are busy at work in their lab devising their next concoction.
These are early days for Ogre Brewing, South Whidbey’s newest addition to the growing beverage scene, but things are picking up steam. The brewery opened its tasting room on Friday so locals could stop by to sip the latest flavors from hoppy pale ales to light and smooth blondes.
When the little ones return to South Whidbey Children’s Center, they’ll have a new slide and rock wall to play on courtesy of Rotary Club of Whidbey Westside.
Tucked away in the Clinton woods north of Possession Point, a pasture overlooking Puget Sound is filled with Stan and Lynn Swanson’s happy sheep herd, whose milk makes Whidbey’s own artisan cheese.
And the sheep’s milk cheese has caught the attention of foodie magazines and local chefs alike.
Teach someone to fish and they’ll eat for life. Teach a bird to fish for you and it’s a winning system.
At least that’s what Nannette Pierson’s friends are teasing her about after the Pierson family’s dinner recently came from an unlikely source — the sky.
Whidbey Island is home to a slew of art studios, fabric stores and textile shops, but why make the trek to all of them when you can mesh those ideas into a single comprehensive store?
That’s the idea behind Side Market, an art and design boutique that will open its doors today at 10 a.m. at 5603 Bayview Road Suite 3 in the Bayview Cash Store.
Three people were airlifted Wednesday from a section of Highway 525 after a two-car collision.
State police identified those involved as Oak Harbor residents Deborah Tennuchi, 43, and Darcy Zook, 56, and Greenbank resident Frank Roberts, 91. The three were taken to two different hospitals: Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and Colby in Everett.
Both Tennuchi and Zook suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Zook was released from Harborview Thursday morning. Tennuchi remains in the hospital.
For Don Bundy and other woodworkers, artists don’t need a canvas when they can see shapes and forms in nature.
A piece of driftwood could morph into a sculpture or a repurposed shelf, if in the right hands. There is much to do with wood, and a plethora of those possibilities will be exhibited this weekend at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts (WICA).
The Organic Farm School has caught the eye of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) with what they’re doing here on South Whidbey for sustainable farming, and the organization has been rewarded with an exclusive grant for their efforts.
And farm school executives say it’s indicative of the healthiness of agriculture in the state.
Puget Sound Energy customers beware — there are scammers demanding payment for delinquent utility bills.
Puget Sound Energy sent out an email on Friday alerting their customers to the scam. According to the email, the scammers are targeting primarily small-business owners and pretending to be company employees collecting payment for overdue bills. The scammers threaten to cut off service of Puget Sound Energy utilities if they don’t pay immediately with a prepaid card or provide credit card information.
Child actors and aspiring film production staff are getting a taste of Whidbey’s version of Hollywood, and their work will appear on TV in the coming months.
There aren’t many live-action children’s television programs these days, and the lack of such shows has prompted Whidbey Island and Puget Sound-based actors, actresses and film producers to create a new program for WhidbeyTV that provides child actors with a platform to shine in front of a television audience.
The Bonnet Babes are more than an art collective — it’s an “alternative lifestyle,” the artists say.
Whimsical, with skills in multiple forms of art and a tinge of humor, the Bonnet Babes are a Maxwelton Valley-based artistic duo who sell their homestead -inspired art out of an art stand at Maxwelton Road and Four Sisters Lane, and at Bayview Farmers Market. The duo is composed of Allegra Rose Brown and Julie Kuhfahl, and they walk their talk in terms of the group name and style of art.
