Oak Harbor’s Haggen store is among the 33 “core” locations that the Bellingham-based grocery chain won court approval Friday to try selling as part of its bankruptcy.
The native Californian is quick to say what her one-person company, called ASEC LLC, won’t do: have sex with clients or their partners, offer any type of psychotherapy, bring toys to your home or spend more than a month or two working with a client.
Driven partly by an improved real estate market, Island County’s 2016 preliminary budget will increase by 8 percent in 2016, to $83.2 million, according to figures slated for a public hearing Dec. 7.
The proposed budget is balanced, as required by state law, and “includes more revenue, which means the county can provide more services to its residents,” said Elaine Marlow, the county’s budget director.
Oak Harbor’s Carlton Hughs and Jennifer Coleman hope to make a go of Cat Creations, a home-based business making wooden enclosures that let cats safely enjoy the outdoor
“Have you tried the Pink Lady Kush concentrate? It’s an 80/20 indica dominant.”
So went clerk Aeron Nyx’s sales pitch to a customer recently at Bayview’s Whidbey Island Cannabis Co. It was obscure to the non-smoker. But the customer, who asked to be identified only as Kelvin, happily walked away with about $60 worth of product.
Rockie Eggebrecht is a hard-working farmer, but not the kind who wears overalls, labors in the soil and grows broccoli. He wears street clothes, works indoors and plants exclusively in pea gravel.
Washington authorized the medical use of marijuana on Nov. 3, 1998, creating a regulatory system that was completely separate from that for recreational marijuana.
Sales figures for medical marijuana aren’t tracked or tallied because sales outlets are unregulated, said Mikhail Carpenter, a spokesperson for the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board.
In November 2012, Washington state decided to “try a new approach” to recreational marijuana with Initiative 502, decriminalizing its use for residents 21 and older. Sales began in July 2014 in much of the rest of the state and three months later on Whidbey Island. Now, 1.5 years after legalization, we examine what effects, pro and con, legalization has had on Whidbey Island. Part 1 of this series looks at the law’s overall impact. Part 2 profiles a grower/processor, and part 3 profiles a retailer. We welcome readers’ feedback.
On Jan. 1, Island County Beach Watchers will part ways with long-time administrator Washington State University and become an independent, not-for-profit organization with a new name: Sound Water Stewards of Island County.
There’s a new yoga teacher in town, and she specializes in movement for people with disabilities. Renee Le Verrier, 54, has Parkinson’s disease and literally wrote the book on yoga for movement disorders.
Much of the Fakkema Farm, 377 acres of forest and high-grade farmland on north Whidbey Island, could be preserved through up to $1 million in Conservation Futures Fund easements under an enthusiastic, unanimous vote Monday by the Board of Island County Commissioners.
Fireworks, regional transportation and vacation rentals led the list of topics addressed Thursday at the county Council of Governments’ monthly meeting. Three state legislators were in attendance, as were the usual representatives from Island County, Coupeville, Langley and the port districts of Coupeville and South Whidbey.
Island County wants to address some contentious environmental-protection issues when it releases its new Comprehensive Plan by June 1, 2016, and not before, it said Monday in a filing with the state’s Growth Management Hearings Board.
