Whidbey Island will soon receive millions of dollars of American Rescue Plan funding. Oak Harbor was allotted $6,578,122. Coupeville was allotted $550,480 and Langley was allotted $318,229. Island County will get $16,500,000. Half the money will be received in 2021 and the other half in 2022. The respective city councils...
Two more candidates have stepped forward to challenge Thomas Gill in the race to be the next mayor of Langley. Scott Chaplin and Roger Scrafford have both submitted applications for the position. Scott Chaplin is also running for election to Position 5 on the Langley City Council. The Langley City...
Big change is on the horizon for the City of Langley. The only applicant, so far, for the remaining two years of Mayor Callison’s term is councilmember Thomas Gill. If he is appointed, councilmember Craig Cyr will be the only current councilmember remaining as incumbents Dominique Emerson, Peter Morton and...
After more than a year, Langley Mayor Tim Callison and the City Council have agreed to repeal the mask mandate and to instead follow Gov. Jay Inslee’s orders for the state. Kira Erickson has the story in the South Whidbey Record. On the Ballot in November 2021 – Langley City...
Langley Mayor Tim Callison is resigning this June as he is moving outside the city limits. So far, Langley Councilmember Thomas Gill is the only candidate who has applied to serve out the two and one half year remainder of the mayoral term. City Council members will choose a new...
Candidate Harolynne Bobis wrote an interesting letter to the editor in the Whidbey News-Times in which she expresses her support for Critical Race Theory and shares some details of her life. Ms. Bobis is running for Langley City Council Position 1 in the election scheduled for November 2021. Incumbent Christy...
The Langley City Council will be keeping up their mask mandate for the foreseeable future. This despite guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicating that people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 can resume activities without masking or physical distancing. Mayor Tim Callison said he had...
The City of Langely has agreed to sell an oddly shaped piece of property in a complicated three-way deal between the City, the Boatyard Inn, and the Port of South Whidbey. The City will sell the property to the Boatyard Inn, who will then transfer the property to the Port,...
