A church in Greenbank is cooking up a free holiday meal for the public in celebration of Thanksgiving.
Skip Pohtilla continues to be amazed at how things tend to fall in place this time of year. With so many hands involved in pulling off an event the scale of the North Whidbey Community Harvest, one might expect a little panic to set in by mid November.
With so many hands involved in pulling off an event the scale of the North Whidbey Community Harvest, one might expect a little panic to set in by mid November.
But not so.
In a poetic way to honor the wishes of a lifelong Central Whidbey farmer, Bob Engle will get one final tractor ride Saturday.
Eight students from the Oak Harbor School District music programs were selected to perform at the Washington Music Educators Association Junior All-State Band in Yakima.
Although still in its early stages of development, Coupeville’s Farm to School program is wrapping up a year of encouraging progress.
Even four decades after retiring from military service, Dick Johnson is still working to hold things together for the U.S. Navy Reserve.
Michael Fedele’s life was at a crossroads when he returned to Oak Harbor at the start of this year.
He left Bend, Ore., in a fog after a relationship ended. He came home and bought a sailboat with his brother, hoping time spent tinkering at the marina would keep his mind busy while he charted a new course in life.
Then one day in the kitchen of his mother’s home, his vision started to clear.
As winter approaches and plants go dormant, there’s a movement in Coupeville that is starting to blossom.
Although still in its early stages of development, Coupeville’s Farm to School program is wrapping up a year of encouraging progress.
Five years ago, Nancy Conard suggested that the Island County Historical Society shake up the format of its annual dinner and auction by honoring special guests.
Terry Lacey is holding out hope that Saturday’s weather will shine on Oak Harbor’s Veterans Day parade.
Ingrid Schwalbe is making her Whidbey Playhouse debut in “The Lion in Winter,” which is being performed Nov. 6-22.
Only moments after slipping through a crawl space of an Oak Harbor home, Robert Coleman is greeted by a shiny dark spider dangling from a web.
“Hey look, a faux black widow,” Coleman said, pointing a flashlight at it.
Five years ago, Nancy Conard suggested that the Island County Historical Society shake up the format of its annual dinner and auction by honoring special guests.
