Langley News

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink - get ready for a murderous romp in the theater. It's as if playwright Ira Levin is elbowing the audience with a friendly nudge and devilish smile throughout what some critics call his best play, "Deathtrap: A Thriller in Two Acts." If you like a bit of murder and scream with your laughter, "Deathtrap" is for you.

Television's "SuperNanny" show has been on South Whidbey this week, working with and filming an undisclosed Clinton family with three children.

The city's new rules for creating subdivisions will drive up the cost of housing and scare builders away, experts in the housing industry have told Langley officials.

The sour economy has claimed another victim: The Beachfire Grill in Freeland abruptly closed its doors on Saturday.

The parks district is hoping to change its tune when it comes to its maintenance-and-operations levy.

The wonderful world of beer will pop open soon in the rear of the city's old fire hall on Second Street.

The first reading of a proposed new fee schedule to include green burials at the city cemetery will occupy the Langley City Council at its meeting next week.

Pastor Rick Spicer and a busload of 35 parishioners from St. Hubert Catholic Church in Langley joined more than 6,000 people in the 32nd March for Life in Olympia this past week.

The live play is one of the more raw and exposed of art forms. To make onea s living as a playwright is no easy feat.

An ATM machine stolen from Village Pizzeria in Langley early Friday morning was found just outside the city later the same evening, police said.

Lunch at The Dog House in March 2007. Photo by Sue Frause. I was one of the 50 some folks who showed up at a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the fate and future of The Dog House.

A gray whale has been spotted off South Whidbey more than a month ahead of schedule.

More than 50 people showed up at city hall in Langley on Thursday afternoon to talk about how to preserve the historic Dog House Tavern.

Someone broke into Village Pizzeria on First Street in downtown Langley early Friday morning and made off with an ATM machine containing an undisclosed amount of cash.

A meeting to find a way to save the historic Dog House Tavern in downtown Langley will be held this afternoon.

An emergency responder from Fire District 3 examines damage to a Chevy Cavalier that hit a power pole near the primary school Tuesday afternoon.

The Langley Community Forum, a spirited platform for the discussion of city issues, is scaling back its online operation, organizers said.

Heart-shaped kelp off Tofino on Vancouver Island. Sue Frause photo. Although it probably won't be a hug-o-thon at tonight's Langley City Council meeting, there is a lot of love goin' around town this winter.

Puget Sound Energy expects to have the power restored for all of its customers on Whidbey Island today, a spokeswoman for the company said Monday afternoon.

Langley's Whidbey Island Bank branch opened in its new location on Monday. The bank moved from its cramped quarters in a Second Street shopping center to the first floor of the former Linds Langley Drug on First Street.