Christmas celebration services
On Monday, about 4,000 Christmas cards from around the country arrived in Oak Harbor filled with messages of cheer and thankfulness for the military men and women based at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.
It’s holiday hoops time for the Oak Harbor High School girls and boys basketball teams.
Defensive breakdowns in the second quarter led to a 61-44 loss at Mountlake Terrace for the Oak Harbor High School girls basketball team Wednesday, Dec. 22.
Ferry riders will, once again, see a fare increase starting in 2011.
Washington State Department of Transportation Ferries Division will move forward with plans to implement a 2.5 percent fare increase on all routes beginning January 1.
Island Scanner: Oak Harbor Police Department
Port of Coupeville commissioners approved a $34,300 bid by Whidbey Sun and Wind during their Dec. 8 meeting to set up the infrastructure needed for a solar project.
The gifts have been wrapped, the holiday ham has been purchased and the stockings have been hung by the chimney with care. Well, that’s the goal anyway.
A squabble over the calculation of overtime pay has erupted into Whidbey General Hospital union representatives accusing hospital administrators of violating federal labor laws.
The two groups have been quietly debating the issue for the past 15 months but the controversy was brought to public light in dramatic fashion Monday evening when hospital purchasing agent Pat Lamont read aloud a memorandum sent to members of the United Food and Commercial Workers 21 union earlier that morning.
Students and parents have been notified that an Oak Harbor High School student and Hillcrest Elementary School teacher have been diagnosed with pertussis, more commonly referred to as whooping cough. Both of the individuals came down with a persistent cough and are getting treated with antibiotics.
Faced with the prospect of unprecedented budget cuts, the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission has turned to the state for help in dousing financial flames being fanned by Whidbey Island firefighters.
In November voters restricted the state from raising fees. Monday the move paid off when a planned 2.5 percent ferry fare increase set to start Jan. 1 was scuttled by the Washington State Attorney General’s Office.
Heralded as forward thinking by some and illegal by others, a controversial proposal for a county-wide Clean Water Utility became a reality this week.