Langley News

With dexterity and imagination, one young artist records the teeming life of Whidbey and beyond.

The city is putting the fire back in the firehouse, and before long you might get a cold beer in there, too.

The turbulent waters of Deception Pass, a narrow channel that separates Whidbey and Fidalgo islands, has been an obstacle to navigation since it was discovered by the George Vancouver expedition in 1792.

The Dog House Tavern sign is lookin' a little rusty these days. Photo by Sue Frause.

It's a tight fit, but Island County Health Services has a new home. On Thursday, the county opened its new health services center on the second floor of the Bayview Cash Store.

John Sarkis designed the Choochokam poster. Photo by Sue Frause. John Sarkis has been doodling for a long time.

Island County officials have decided to share federal stimulus money the county received for roadway preservation.

Whidbey Island Clinton, Langley, Bayview, Freeland, Coupeville and Oak Harbor, WA 98260 United States of America Whidbey Island in Washington State.

All that jazz will live on at Langley Middle School. At least for another year. Threatened with extinction from severe school district budget cuts, the jazz band program has been saved through a combination of hard work, fundraisers and publicity.

The Oak Harbor City Councila s decision to move toward decreasing the citya s contribution to the Island County Joint Tourism promotion effort is reasonable.

Fun, fun, fun and more fun for the whole family. Thata s the point of a new community event dreamed up by fiddler Kat Fritz and her musical mates.

If you purchase a ticket on Friday, June 19 , Saturday, June 20 , Sunday, June 21 you can get the second for $5. Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, under the leadership of Executive Director Stacie Burgua, presents Franklin & Figaro, by Kristina Sutherland.

It took about 11 hours to remove a 19-ton boom lift from the entrance to Langleya s Seawall Park after it slid out of control and landed upside-down Tuesday afternoon.

Glass blowers and soap makers appear to have the inside track for the citya s vacant fire station on Second Street.

Bayviewa s popular off-leash dog park has gone wet and solar, thanks to a $40,000 grant from an Australian beverage company.

When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas was staying in New Quay on the west coast of Wales one winter, he went out early one morning into the still-sleeping town, and verses came to his mind about the inhabitants.

A boom-lift operator escaped injury Tuesday afternoon when he lost control of his rig on a steep grade and it overturned at the entrance to Seawall Park in Langley.

Chef Matt Costello of the Inn at Langley savors his stash of Rockwell beans, which Whidbey locals say are unique to the island.

Proponents of a sewer system for Freeland are weighing their options after failing to win federal stimulus money for the project.

Sharing the road into Langley on Brooks Hill Road. Sue Frause photo. Who doesn't like to read about themselves? Well, I suppose if you're one of those high profile people who ends up smeared across the front of a tabloid as you duck into a spa in Beverly Hills, probably not.