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WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2013 | Vol. 89, No. 59 | WWW.SOUTHWHIDBEYRECORD.COM | 75¢
Judge scolds double murder suspect By JESSIE STENSLAND
Staff reporter
The strange trial of an accused killer took even more unusual turns Monday in Island County Superior Court. The defendant, Joshua Lambert, was temporarily replaced by a television set in the courtroom because of his continued outbursts. The jurors were able to see his disembodied head on the screen, but they could no longer hear his voice. Later, Lambert returned to the courtroom and testified, but remained at the defense table; the judge ruled he’s too unpredictable to sit next to the jury at the witness stand. During cross examination, Lambert became combative and refused to answer some of the questions asked him by Prosecutor Attorney Greg Banks. “You misconstrue everything you quote,” Lambert said, later adding that Banks was “misappropriatSEE LAMBERT, PAGE A11
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Ahna Dunn-Wilder, director Rose Woods and Kent Jung relax before rehearsing William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” which opens the Island Shakespeare Festival on Aug. 3.
A home for The Bard
Shakespeare Festival will raise tent at Langley Middle School By BEN WATANABE
Staff reporter
Shakespeare in the tent is on for this August and September. Thanks to the support and open wallets of Bard supporters, more than $32,000 was raised
for Island Shakespeare Festival. However, if passers-by missed seeing a 2,400-square foot, 18-foot-high tent behind Langley Middle School, it would be understandable. Delivery of the tent is a few weeks behind schedule and slated for the end of July.
“Everyone will know when it goes up because it’s a big, big thing,” said Peggy Juve, the festival board’s president and development director. A delay in raising the tent did not stall the 14-member cast’s preparations. SEE FESTIVAL, PAGE A11
Whidbey News Group reporter new Record editor Whidbey News Group Publisher and Executive Editor Keven Graves and South Whidbey Record Associate Publisher Kim Winjum announced this week that Whidbey News-Times reporter Justin Burnett will be the new editor for The Record. The twice-weekly Record covers South Whidbey, from Greenbank to Clinton. Burnett is succeeding longtime editor Jim Larsen,
who left The Record earlier this month. “We’re really thrilled to have someone with Justin’s journalistic experience and integrity to fill some very big shoes,” said Graves. “We didn’t rush into a decision, had some outstanding candidates, but in the end Kim and I kept coming back to Justin.” “I have confidence that Justin will be a great leader for The Record and that the community likes
the direction he takes the newspaper in the coming months and years,” Graves said. Burnett has worked as a reporter for the Whidbey News Group newspapers on Whidbey Island for about three years. Previously, he was a reporter for The Whidbey SEE EDITOR, PAGE A11
BURNETT
Named new Record editor.