eaders will have less than two months to persuade the public to sign off on a bond to pay for an expansion of Whidbey General Hospital.
A special election was set Monday for May 17 in what will be a vote-by-mail election.
An Oak Harbor man was hospitalized Monday after his minivan van collided with a semi-truck parked along the shoulder of Taylor Road.
According to Washington State Patrol Trooper Josh Lancaster, the accident happened at about 11:10 a.m. William Growney, 77, was driving northbound on Taylor Road and had just passed Whispering Pine Lane when his 2005 Chrysler Town and Country minivan smashed into the back of the parked semi.
The Navy’s announcement this week that Whidbey Island Naval Air Station will not be among the recipients of the new P8-A Poseidon jets has left many pondering an $87 million dollar question: What does this mean for the base’s existing P-3 squadrons and its 2,600 personnel?
A district tournament win by the Oak Harbor High School boys basketball team and a second-place finish in the team standings at district by the Wildcat swim and dive team highlighted Saturday’s post-season prep action.
If you have one of Oak Harbor Mayor Jim Slowik’s old campaign signs, be careful what you do with it because he may just stroll in your front door and take it back, even without your permission.
An Oak Harbor pedestrian is on the mend this week after being hit by two vehicles last week.
Coupeville’s Cole Weinstein qualified for the Northwest District 1 2A swim finals in two events during the preliminary heats in Anacortes Friday, Feb. 11.
Island County commissioners were unable to find much in the way of common ground during a four-hour retreat in their hearing room Wednesday, but they definitely got to know each other better.
The arrest of a convicted felon this week unearthed a piece of American history and police are now looking for help in finding its true owner.
According to court documents, deputies with the Island County Sheriff’s Office took Anthony Herrmann into custody Sunday for allegedly firing a handgun in the front yard of his girlfriend’s home just south of Oak Harbor.
North Whidbey residents flubbed a chance to ask hard questions about an upcoming bond needed to fund expansion of Whidbey General Hospital.
Three hospital staff members, two commissioners, two former employees and a reporter were the only people who attended a public forum Thursday night at the Oak Harbor Senior Center.
Following an abrupt retirement, the town of Coupeville looked to its neighbor down south to temporarily fill a vacancy.
Langley building official Bob Snyder was named to the same position in Coupeville when the town’s former building official Len Eserhut, abruptly retired.
Within about a month’s time, Hillcrest Elementary School fifth grade teacher Duane Sisto has managed to not only raise his students’ average test scores, but he’s actually managed to get his students to admit that learning is fun.
A new era of teaching has begun.
According to Oak Harbor wrestler Steven Souza, any event that allows him to wear his uniform to school is A-OK by him.
“We love being in our singlets, are you kidding me?” he said while surrounded by his spandex-clad teammates in the high school gym Thursday, Feb. 3.
But the event, which involved the entire student body and spanned throughout the school, wasn’t designed so the wrestling team could strut their stuff.