Placing 1-year-old Nicholas Sandall into the cockpit of a slick-looking racing boat was the easy part.
Getting him out was another story.
“He likes cars and boats,” said his mother, Adrienne Sandall of Oak Harbor. “He didn’t want to get out of the boat.”
On any given day, Robin Llewellyn can reach into the freezer compartment beneath her refrigerator and pull out a frozen surprise.
Sometimes, it’ll be a bag of cranberries, sugar snap peas or free range chicken.
Other times, it’ll be something altogether different.
In the final dress rehearsal for “Peter Pan,” last year, Ellen Peterson put all her weight on her extended left foot and felt a pop.
It was her Achilles, a tendon that is constantly tested when ballet dancers stand on their toes. The pop was an alarm and the pain that followed a cause for some initial panic.
She was, after all, playing Peter Pan.
“I was the main,” she said. “I had to continue.”
In the eyes of one national news organization’s readers, Whidbey rates as one of the best islands to visit in the United States.
Whidbey Island is ranked No. 3 under “Best U.S. Island” by readers of USA Today and 10Best.com, the news media company’s travel website.
A panel of experts picked the nominees, leaving the public to vote for their favorite U.S. islands over the course of a month.
On an overcast afternoon, just hours after having a crown put on at the dentist, retired Navy captain JR Russell…
Learning she had landed a lead role in an upcoming play at the Whidbey Playhouse, Coqui Herken didn’t know how to react.
“At first, you’re really excited you got the part,” Herken said. “Then you realize what you’ve taken on, and you start to panic.”
Herken is not only tackling her first leading role when “Enchanted April” begins at the Whidbey Playhouse Friday, June 6, it’s her first speaking part of any production.
Gary Daugherty doesn’t know how he got so lucky.
Not only does he have a loving wife, he also has an adoring dog who goes with him almost everywhere.
Whenever Doug Kroon wants to reminisce, he just has to glance at a wall inside his restaurant.
This wasn’t the sort of fishing Brian Punch grew up around back home in Louisiana.
Yet a tip he got from his dad when he was a boy resonated with him while he and two friends went fishing for halibut earlier this month near Anacortes.
Sally Straathof knows she has some big shoes to fill as tour guide of the Sunnyside Cemetery Memorial Day Heritage Tour.
She is taking the lead on the guided tour this year, filling a role long held by Coupeville historian Roger Sherman.
The granite grave marker of one of Whidbey Island’s most influential early pioneers rests in a family plot surrounded by a white picket fence and fir trees.
It seems only fitting that in this section of Sunnyside Cemetery reserved for early settlers, Isaac Ebey’s remains are interred not far from an overlook that provides a sweeping view of the prairie that bears his name.
Coupeville will host its annual parade Saturday and Memorial Day ceremonies will take place in three Whidbey Island locations Monday to honor those who served in the military.
Coupeville’s parade, which consists of 75 entries, will start at 11 a.m. on South Main Street and finish at Coupeville Town Park.
Spending most of her day indoors as a dietitian at Whidbey General Hospital, Lori Taylor is delighted when she gets an opportunity to step outside.
During extended breaks, she’s found a nature trail near her workplace to be particularly rewarding.
“I just call it ‘pushing the reset button,’” she said.
