Camano Island News

Arlington: Teach recreation classes The city of Arlington parks and recreation department uses independent contract instructors to provide recreational services to the community.

Island County will get grants totaling more than $1.1 million to help salmon recover efforts.

STANWOOD a ' Mason Derrick of Stanwood has been identified as the 19-year-old who died after the Acura sedan he was driving went off the road and rolled near Bryant on Sunday, Dec.

ARLINGTON a ' Authorities believe a vehicle carrying five Snohomish County teenagers was traveling more than twice the speed limit when it crashed, killing a 19-year-old Arlington man on Sunday, Dec.

Join the Overman Family Musicians at 7 p.m. Tuesday at St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, 1318 Highway 532, Camano Island.

Eighteen-year-old Colton Harris-Moore is achieving folk hero status as the "Barefoot Bandit" in the US and Canada after a string of burglaries and dare-devil escapes from the law.

We found the merlin for Margit Merlin. Last week, we wrote that bird watcher Merlin thought she spotted a merlin at her Marysville home.

The combination of budget cuts and and the war in Afghanistan may force the Island County Sheriffa s Office to forego 24-hour-a-day coverage of Camano Island.

Donna Watson's home on Camano Island is decorated with simplicity and an Asian flair.

STATE BUDGET Train platform is simply insanity Regarding the Stanwood train station: What in God's name were they thinking? Five million dollars for a train platform .

The planned community play area at Freedom Park on Camano Island has a name after all.

The war may never be over for Dedi Noble. During the first two Christmases after her only child, Army Sgt.

Construction crews will transport large concrete girders along Interstate 5 from Tacoma to Stanwood Sunday night.

Deanna Gould isn't looking for a Christmas tree this year, but she can tell others where they might find one.

First things first, so here we go with an SOS from Caroline Oberg of Camano Island, who writes, "Perhaps some of your readers would have a recipe for a steamed pudding.

Port of South Whidbey commissioners are against the idea of mandatory boat-launch fees at three South End facilities.

Toy wooden grasshopper crafted by members of the Northwest Corner Woodworkers Association are lined up Tuesday, night at the Hillcrest Lodge in Mount Vernon for the Marine Toys For Tots Foundation.

Cash-strapped Island County is considering collecting boat-launch fees at the eight facilities it owns, including three on the South End.

The Washington State Auditor has given the Sno-Isle Libraries a clean bill of financial healtha 'a 'for the 24th year in a row.

The Island County budget director calls the whole thing "challenging." In order to balance Island County's proposed $67.4 million budget, county officials are prepared to lay off more employees, slash some programs by half, dip further into savings, raise property taxes, cut hours of operation and reduce nonunion employee medical coverage.