Children from a local day care are pictured in front of the gnome house on Hebner Street. “Wow. That’s fantastic!” is just one of the many pleasant reactions a new tree carving on the eastside of the ...

CLINTON — Dozens of bears, eagles and gnomes perished in a December fire deep in the woods of Whidbey Island. It was a devastating loss for chainsaw artist Steve Backus, who carved the creatures that ...

Sawdust flies and Mark Colp moves a chainsaw through a log from what was once a huge pine tree. Working in a tent during the Johnson County Fair in Franklin on Monday, it takes a little more than an ...