The South Whidbey Record reports on a press release from the City of Langley.
The City of Langley has joined Maritime Washington National Heritage Area, a new regional effort supported by the National Park Service to preserve and celebrate the region’s unique and diverse maritime heritage, according to a press release.
After planning for years, the organization has just begun asking government agencies and private sector organizations to join as partners. Its area of concern spans 3,000 miles of Washington’s saltwater shoreline. Joining the organization will help Langley officials connect with communities facing similar challenges and also stay alert to funding and other opportunities.
“This new initiative is very exciting as it will help bring together wide ranges of our community together to work on issues of common concern — commercial and sports fisherman, tribes and non-tribes, and people of all walks of life with a connection to maritime life,” Langley Mayor Scott Chaplin said. “I hope that all coastal communities, and nonprofits and commercial entities connected to maritime issues will join this important new network.”
Chaplin joined other area partners, including representatives from the Port of Coupeville, Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve, Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Island County and the Whidbey Island Maritime Heritage Foundation, at a launch event Thursday afternoon.
The purpose of the maritime heritage area is to connect organizations whose work is related to the preservation of maritime history, resources, industry and ecology with funding sources and regional partners engaging in similar projects.
On the Ballot in November 2023
| CITY OF LANGLEY |
| City Council: Two of five council positions are on the ballot. Position 3: Thomas E. Gill The Whidbey News-Times reported on May 5, 2023 that Christopher Carlson, the chairperson of the Langley Finance and Personnel Commission, will run for this seat. On Tue., May 16, Kay Kenneweg filed to run for this seat as well. Position 4: Craig Cyr Councilman Cyr filed to run for re-election on Mon., May 15. Mayor Chaplin filed to run for this seat on Fri., May 19. |
| Mayor: Scott Chaplin. Mayor Chaplin was appointed after the resignation of Tim Callison. This election will be for the remainder of Chaplin’s term, which ends Dec. 31, 2023, and the succeeding four-year full term, which ends Dec. 31, 2027. In April 2023, Chaplin announced that he would not run to retain his seat. Councilman Thomas Gill filed his intention to run for mayor with the Public Disclosure Commission on May 6, 2023. Kennedy Horstman, a member of the city’s Dismantling Systemic Racism Advisory Group, announced her intention to run and filed with the PDC on May 12, 2023. |
