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Mar 29 2013, 8:24 AM Marysville-Pilchuck picked up its first tennis win of the season at the expense of Oak Harbor, knocking off the visiting Wildcats 5-2 Thursday, March 28. It’s time to speak on global issues | Letters
Mar 26 2013, 3:49 PM Please help me save my daughter’s future and … your daughter’s also. The president is about to make, arguably, the most important decision of his presidency and possibly in history. The decision is whether to approve the proposed XL Pipeline, which would connect the Alberta Tar Sands to refineries owned by the Koch brothers in Texas. According to one of the world’s leading climatologists, NASA’s James Hansen, the tar sands are a “climate bomb” which, if allowed to reach its full potential, means “game over for the climate.” Wildcat teams get 1 win each | Track
Mar 29 2013, 9:41 AM Oak Harbor track teams each won one of two match-ups at a double dual meet at Marysville-Pilchuck High School Thursday, March 28. Leave the marina otters alone | Letters
Mar 26 2013, 3:49 PM One wise quotation that has stuck with me over many years is something to the effect of, “The best index of an individual, community or society is how it treats those who have no voice.” And this seems applicable to the situation Oak Harbor faces with the river otters at the city marina. It is true, the otters are messy animals that leave poop on the docks. It is also true that they are highly intelligent and social animals that many take delight in observing, photographing and showing to their kids and grandkids. Island County needs pet licensing policy
Mar 26 2013, 3:50 PM A pet’s license tag should be its ticket home. Please contact Island County Commissioners and Sheriff Mark Brown and ask them to adopt a formal policy that will let licensed pets in Island County be returned home and not be taken to the shelters whenever possible. And, if the owner is not home, to please leave instructions where to find the pet, since ownership rights are lost after five days; also, the sooner the pet is reclaimed, the less it costs taxpayers to shelter it during the mandatory hold period. It’s more cost-effective. It saves animal control transport time and gas It also prevents needless sheltering costs on taxpayers. It encourages the sale of license tags, proceeds of which could go to subsidized low-cost spay neuter programs through local vets (and that would eventually lower the number of feral and stray animals entering the shelters). Currently people have to leave the island to find low-cost services. It lets animal control officers be heroes instead of dogcatchers. Wolves snare 7 firsts | Track
Mar 29 2013, 9:03 AM Coupeville High School track team crossed the finish line first in seven events at a three-team meet at Granite Falls Thursday, March 28. Help on way for neighbors of urban blight, junky yards in Oak Harbor
Mar 26 2013, 3:19 PM Oak Harbor resident Karen Ekberg would like to be able to look out her back windows without seeing a yard filled with junk. It may take awhile, code enforcement officer David Anderson said, but she’ll get her wish. Oak Harbor Mayor Scott Dudley put a special emphasis on code enforcement last year. The aftermath of the Great Recession left a lot of foreclosed and abandoned homes in the city; without anyone to care for them, the grass grows tall and garbage accumulates. Whidbey native awarded national teaching fellowship
Mar 26 2013, 3:26 PM
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation announced that Melanya Materne of Whidbey Island is one of nine people awarded a Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowship for Aspiring Teachers of Color.
Materne is a 2012 graduate of the University of Washington, majoring in English.
A Dean’s List and Honors student, Materne was awarded the Thomas A. Lederman and Tia Val-Spinosa Sullivan endowed scholarships for academic merit in a humanities field.
Pederson paid to not sue Island County
Mar 26 2013, 3:18 PM Oak Harbor resident Karen Ekberg would like to be able to look out her back windows without seeing a yard filled with junk. It may take awhile, code enforcement officer David Anderson said, but she’ll get her wish. Oak Harbor Mayor Scott Dudley put a special emphasis on code enforcement last year. The aftermath of the Great Recession left a lot of foreclosed and abandoned homes in the city; without anyone to care for them, the grass grows tall and garbage accumulates. Massive landslide brought out the best in people | Publisher's column
Mar 29 2013, 3:26 PM This week, I had a front-row seat to the awesome power of Mother Nature, and the best part of humankind. Since Feb. 11 I’ve been living in a home in Ledgewood Beach. It was a temporary place while I searched for something more permanent. From the huge living room window, I enjoyed watching the ferry crossing between Keystone and Port Townsend. I also got into the habit of scouting for the occasional submarine.
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Mar 29 2013, 8:24 AM Marysville-Pilchuck picked up its first tennis win of the season at the expense of Oak Harbor, knocking off the visiting Wildcats 5-2 Thursday, March 28. It’s time to speak on global issues | Letters
Mar 26 2013, 3:49 PM Please help me save my daughter’s future and … your daughter’s also. The president is about to make, arguably, the most important decision of his presidency and possibly in history. The decision is whether to approve the proposed XL Pipeline, which would connect the Alberta Tar Sands to refineries owned by the Koch brothers in Texas. According to one of the world’s leading climatologists, NASA’s James Hansen, the tar sands are a “climate bomb” which, if allowed to reach its full potential, means “game over for the climate.” Wildcat teams get 1 win each | Track
Mar 29 2013, 9:41 AM Oak Harbor track teams each won one of two match-ups at a double dual meet at Marysville-Pilchuck High School Thursday, March 28. Leave the marina otters alone | Letters
Mar 26 2013, 3:49 PM One wise quotation that has stuck with me over many years is something to the effect of, “The best index of an individual, community or society is how it treats those who have no voice.” And this seems applicable to the situation Oak Harbor faces with the river otters at the city marina. It is true, the otters are messy animals that leave poop on the docks. It is also true that they are highly intelligent and social animals that many take delight in observing, photographing and showing to their kids and grandkids. Island County needs pet licensing policy
Mar 26 2013, 3:50 PM A pet’s license tag should be its ticket home. Please contact Island County Commissioners and Sheriff Mark Brown and ask them to adopt a formal policy that will let licensed pets in Island County be returned home and not be taken to the shelters whenever possible. And, if the owner is not home, to please leave instructions where to find the pet, since ownership rights are lost after five days; also, the sooner the pet is reclaimed, the less it costs taxpayers to shelter it during the mandatory hold period. It’s more cost-effective. It saves animal control transport time and gas It also prevents needless sheltering costs on taxpayers. It encourages the sale of license tags, proceeds of which could go to subsidized low-cost spay neuter programs through local vets (and that would eventually lower the number of feral and stray animals entering the shelters). Currently people have to leave the island to find low-cost services. It lets animal control officers be heroes instead of dogcatchers. Wolves snare 7 firsts | Track
Mar 29 2013, 9:03 AM Coupeville High School track team crossed the finish line first in seven events at a three-team meet at Granite Falls Thursday, March 28. Help on way for neighbors of urban blight, junky yards in Oak Harbor
Mar 26 2013, 3:19 PM Oak Harbor resident Karen Ekberg would like to be able to look out her back windows without seeing a yard filled with junk. It may take awhile, code enforcement officer David Anderson said, but she’ll get her wish. Oak Harbor Mayor Scott Dudley put a special emphasis on code enforcement last year. The aftermath of the Great Recession left a lot of foreclosed and abandoned homes in the city; without anyone to care for them, the grass grows tall and garbage accumulates. Whidbey native awarded national teaching fellowship
Mar 26 2013, 3:26 PM
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation announced that Melanya Materne of Whidbey Island is one of nine people awarded a Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowship for Aspiring Teachers of Color.
Materne is a 2012 graduate of the University of Washington, majoring in English.
A Dean’s List and Honors student, Materne was awarded the Thomas A. Lederman and Tia Val-Spinosa Sullivan endowed scholarships for academic merit in a humanities field.
Pederson paid to not sue Island County Mar 26 2013, 3:18 PM Oak Harbor resident Karen Ekberg would like to be able to look out her back windows without seeing a yard filled with junk. It may take awhile, code enforcement officer David Anderson said, but she’ll get her wish. Oak Harbor Mayor Scott Dudley put a special emphasis on code enforcement last year. The aftermath of the Great Recession left a lot of foreclosed and abandoned homes in the city; without anyone to care for them, the grass grows tall and garbage accumulates. Massive landslide brought out the best in people | Publisher's column
Mar 29 2013, 3:26 PM This week, I had a front-row seat to the awesome power of Mother Nature, and the best part of humankind. Since Feb. 11 I’ve been living in a home in Ledgewood Beach. It was a temporary place while I searched for something more permanent. From the huge living room window, I enjoyed watching the ferry crossing between Keystone and Port Townsend. I also got into the habit of scouting for the occasional submarine.
