State state regulators have begun an investigation this week into a third site that might contain Native American remains.
With the mailing of primary election ballots Monday, voters can now begin narrowing down the number of candidates vying for a single Oak Harbor City Council seat from four to two.
Paul Brewer, Mark Wiggins, Martha Yount and Tara Hizon are all seeking to fill position one. The seat is currently held by Jim Palmer, who has decided not to run for a second term due to personal reasons.
The cell phone policy that caused nearly four months of grief for the Oak Harbor School District last fall was adopted by the Coupeville School Board this week, which previously had a more restrictive policy.
The policy was developed and recommended by the Washington State School Directors Association last summer and allows school administrators to confiscate and search a student’s cell phone if they have a reasonable suspicion, based on objective and articulable facts, that such a search will reveal a violation of school rules.
A 53-year-old Oak Harbor resident is accused of assaulting his wife and then attacking a neighbor who came to help the woman, court documents state.
Prosecutors charged Michael Monschau in Island County Superior Court July 14 with assault in the second degree, assault in the fourth degree (domestic violence) and unlawful possession of a firearm.
How much would you be willing to pay to see your boss smooch with a pig?
Cathy Niiro is betting members of law enforcement in the Island County Sheriff’s Office and the Oak Harbor Police Department will pay quite a bit for the chance to see their head honcho pucker up and plant one on a porker.
Better still, the public porcine-related humiliation is for a good cause.
The future of shoreline development in Oak Harbor was the focus of a July 22 community planning meeting at Skagit Valley College.
Margaret Mead was a well-known anthropologist whose name often gets tossed around in women’s history celebrations and in women’s studies classes. She’s credited with many inspirational quotes that now lie engraved on plaques, dangle on keychains and appear on bumper stickers. But one of Mead’s most popular quotations carries questions about its origin and legitimacy. No one can say for sure where Mead was when she allegedly uttered the famous words, but they seem to have roots right here in Coupeville.
This weekend the strong aroma of lavender that circles in the breezes above Darst Road will be infused with creative juices. Dozens of tents will pop up along the fields of the Lavender Wind Farm Saturday as Whidbey’s artists stage an invasion for the second year in a row.
What started out as a goal to lose weight three years ago has resulted in a Northwest Regional CrossFit championship and a shot at a world title for Oak Harbor’s Sam Petersen.
In 1965, at the ripe old age of 17, I checked aboard the Seaplane Tender, USS Salisbury Sound, whose homeport was Oak Harbor.
I hope this letter will inspire the island law enforcement agencies to take immediate action to enforce the excessive noise violations of the very numerous motorcycle and vehicle violators. The noise is a serious and very disturbing aggravation to all that live along the major roads.
Oak Harbor Police Department | Island Scanner
A three-car pileup near the intersection of Coupeville and Highway 20 Friday sent three people to the hospital and caused the busy road to close for about an hour.
According to Washington State Patrol Trooper Jason Nichols, Clear Lake resident Robert Richardson, 52, was southbound in a 1994 Ford Explorer at about 2:20 p.m. when he crashed into another vehicle that was stopped at the intersection of NW Broadway Street and Ebey Road.