Jim Freeman

Jim Freeman

  Our community is still grieving the loss of the “Conductor of Fun” Jim Freeman, and we thought it appropriate on this ‘Fair Friday’ to honor him with a look back to 1986 and 1987 when Jim first began to serve as emcee for the Island...
The boys of summer…

The boys of summer…

Here’s a photo of the 1911 Langley Baseball team… Back row: (l to r) Leon Hartley, Elmer “Skinny” Rothgeb, Ed Boynton, Ed Howard (manager), Carl Gillespie, Harry Kraber, and Bill Howard. Seated: (l to r): Fred Howard, Charles Alex, Ray Howard...
Memorial Day weekend

Memorial Day weekend

Lest we forget… the names of students of Langley High School who died in World War II and the Korean War… names that are etched on the monument at the South Whidbey Community Center (formerly Langley Middle School). Named on the memorial are Paul...
“Women Run the Town”

“Women Run the Town”

Langley on Whidby Island, which has the distinction of being the first municipality in this part of the world to be governed entirely by women, is quick to challenge the claims of Jackson, Wyoming announced recently in a press dispatch printed In the dally papers that...