Raven Rocks Gallery presents the third annual “Artists in Love” show, featuring the art of Mary Jo Oxrieder and Windwalker Taibi, Feb. 5 through April 4.
An opening reception, located at the Greenbank Farm, will be held Friday, Feb. 5 from 5 to 8 p.m.
A feel-good photo that graced the cover of Life magazine in the 1940s turns out to have a dark underside in “The Cover of Life” opening Friday, Feb. 5 at the Whidbey Playhouse.
Kate Miller (Cynthia Kleppang) is our narrator, a Lois Lane-type character and Life correspondent who is thrust into southern women territory.
The Whidbey Playhouse is holding auditions for the Michael Cooney British farce, “Cash on Delivery” this month.
Directors Bob Hendrix and Melissa Bridges will seek six men and four women for this comedy. Perusal scripts are available at the Whidbey Playhouse office.
“The Body Electric,” a retrospective of the art work of South Whidbey artist Ken Hassrick, will open Friday, Feb. 5 at the Rob Schouten Gallery in Greenbank as a fundraising exhibition to benefit the Whidbey Island Arts Council.
The World War II drama “The Cover of Life” will open at the Whidbey Playhouse on Friday, Feb. 5, and tickets are on sale now.
The play tells the story of three young wives who come to live with their mother-in-law, Aunt Ola, while their husbands are at war. The brothers have each joined a different branch of the service, and a reporter from Life Magazine picks up their story.
One of the Northwest’s finest piano players will entertain and educate a North Whidbey audience Saturday, Jan. 30, at the Oak Harbor Lutheran Church, 1253 NW Second Ave.
The concert is presented by the Whidbey Island Chapter of the Washington State Music Teachers Association.
Oak Harbor had a hole in its heart this Christmas: Jessie Beeskma Eerkes was missing for the first time since 1913.
A life-long farmer will help people break into a career in agriculture.
Port Townsend farmer Sebastian Aguilar was recently named coordinator of the Greenbank Farm Training Center. He takes over for Anza Muenchow.
Athena and Lee Duncan, their 2-year-old son Gavin and two cats moved to Whidbey Island this fall from Gulfport, Miss. Although the cross-country moved was expensive, the family was able to keep the family’s pet cats.
“We got here on the skin of our teeth,” Athena said.
Greenbank Farm will carry a line-up of hearty choruses, and several “yo-hos,” during Whidbey’s inaugural Shanty Fest this month.
Performers from across Washington State have signed on for a two-day event, Jan. 22 and 23. It will be only one of two U.S. sea shanty festivals available in the wintertime, organizer Vern Olsen said. The other is in Chicago, Ill.
Nearly 90-feet down off South Whidbey Island, diver Jon Gross meets the welcoming committee and it is not happy.
“The male lingcod is guarding a clutch of eggs from predators. This particular fish is living in an old wreck a mile off Possession Point. Only the male is on egg-guarding duty and he is very bold,” Gross said. “Lingcod will stand their ground against intruding photographers.”
What was once forbidden is now encouraged.
A newly adopted policy provides clarity to the Washington state surface water code, said Stacy Smith, a natural resource planner with the Whidbey Island Conservation District.
The new policy overturned a 1917 law that banned rainwater collection for personal use.
Students and staff in Oak Harbor have helped make it a much happier holiday season on Whidbey Island, contributing thousands of food items to the area food banks, many dozens of Christmas gifts for individual children and families in need, and winter gloves, hats and scarves for a local women’s shelter.