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This Week

A shower of feathers, Part 2

By Kate Poss | With Photos by David WeltonMarch 8, 20210

In the face of a quick hail storm and blustery wind over the weekend, more feathers took to the canopy…

A Shower of Feathers

March 7, 2021
Events

Politics. Police. Protests

By Kate Poss | With Photos by David WeltonJune 28, 20200

Trying to make sense of current national news and social media posts with local life on Whidbey Island—how do we…

Fat Tuesday, Whidbey Island style

February 28, 2020

Practicing controlled burns to train for fighting real fires

October 10, 2019

Langley Main Street Paella Feast crowd ‘Off the Charts’

September 21, 2019
Celebrations

Chasing the blues away with a sea float scramble

By Kate Poss | With Photos by David WeltonJanuary 10, 20200

Typically the days following Christmas and New Years are a let down. But the Langley Main Street Association  and glassmaker…

Taking the plunge in 2020

January 3, 2020

Langley’s end-of-summer derby

September 1, 2019

Whidbey Island Fair –letting go and having old timey fun

July 25, 2019
Our Government

Coming Together — This week’s inauguration, and a march four years ago

By Kate Poss | With Photos by David WeltonJanuary 22, 20211

Friends and neighbors I talked with told me they had tears in their eyes following the historic and healing message…

Mukilteo ferry terminal honors Coast Salish tribal heritage

January 8, 2021

Signs of Fall

October 9, 2020

Helen Price Johnson–Getting real with her people

March 22, 2019
People helping people

Live Your Dream

By Kate Poss | With Photos by David WeltonOctober 4, 20200

Sometimes we need a hand to lift us up. Soroptimist International of South Whidbey Island (SISWI) is seeking applicants for…

Sprucing up the Bus Barn with Troop 57

August 28, 2020

Tiny Houses village coming soon to Langley

August 22, 2020

Langley Creates – Find yourself here

June 12, 2020
Environment

Protecting Island County’s best places

By Kate Poss | With Photos by David WeltonMarch 1, 20210

The Whidbey Camano Land Trust, and its mission since 1984 to protect open space and natural habitat now and into…

Our reader’s ferry memories and comments

February 4, 2021

Ferry Memories

January 30, 2021

The disappearing bench

December 19, 2020
Health and fitness

First shot-COVID-19 vaccines in Island County

By Kate Poss | With Photos by David WeltonDecember 30, 20200

COVID-19 vaccinations have begun for those meeting the requirements of Phase 1A in Island County since Dec. 17. Washington State’s…

The power of swimming in open water

July 14, 2020

Prayerbody on a Sunday morning

February 21, 2019

What if your body felt vibrant?

February 1, 2019
Science and technology

What’s your reality?

By Kate Poss | With Photos by David WeltonJanuary 22, 20192

The lunar eclipse aired January 20th and its show inspired genuine awe as the Earth’s shadow covered the moon and…

Art and artists

Getting to know Dan Pedersen

By Kate Poss | With Photos by David WeltonFebruary 11, 20210

When our photographer David Welton phoned Monday to discuss ideas for this week’s story, he mentioned popular blogger Dan Pedersen,…

A poem for Urashan

January 15, 2021

Where art and nature meet

November 16, 2020

Having fun fundraising for a virtual Nutcracker ballet

September 11, 2020
Animals

White Pelicans on Whidbey

By Kate Poss | With Photos by David WeltonSeptember 23, 20202

Note–David Welton wrote and photographed this story. He has a lifelong interest in and majored in biology. Working in the…

Our island’s lone Trumpeter Swan

August 29, 2020

Birding as real life instead of screen life

January 19, 2020

Getting to know Dungeness crabs

August 9, 2019
Education

Thank you, Chief William Shelton

By Kate Poss | With Photos by David WeltonNovember 30, 20203

This holiday season, I am grateful to the indigenous people of south Whidbey Island, the Snohomish people, whose legacy has…

High school in the times of the pandemic and cultivating Interconnection

November 21, 2020

Unsolved mysteries—Maxwelton Mystery Ship—revisited

July 27, 2020

Graduation 2020 in South Whidbey style

June 18, 2020
Music

“Miracle” revisits the concert that hailed a new line of jets

By Kate Poss | With Photos by David WeltonApril 3, 20190

The largest orchestra ever assembled on Whidbey will perform music written to launch a jet fleet 25 years ago. Langley…

Holidays

Light during the darkest days

By Kate Poss | With Photos by David WeltonDecember 13, 20200

Note: The Whidbey Island Waldorf School – WIWS – celebrates Advent this week by hosting a spiral walk. Early childhood…

Keeping the spirit alive during COVID Christmas

December 13, 2020

Recalling past Maxwelton Independence Day parades

July 3, 2020

What is important at year’s end

December 27, 2019
Local Businesses

What we do with our extra stuff

By Kate Poss | With Photos by David WeltonSeptember 18, 20202

Before coronavirus came and stayed longer than we wanted, we routinely gave our used things to Good Cheer, Senior Thrift,…

Langley Creates — the heartbeat of Langley

August 3, 2020

Moonraker Books’ Enduring Legacy

October 24, 2019

Abundant Earth Fiber

October 5, 2019
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