Island Scanner: Oak Harbor Police Department
More than $18,000 worth of grants have been awarded among seven schools in the Oak Harbor School District to support about 850 students in learning creatively.
Two North Whidbey Aquatic Club members met Pacific Northwest Swimming qualifying standards for the first time in the Fall Divisional Championships at Kamiak High School Dec. 4 and 5.
Mercer Island, putting its impressive power on display, defeated the Oak Harbor swim team 109-61 Saturday, Dec. 4, at John Vanderzicht Memorial Pool.
A 42-year-old Oak Harbor woman is accused of lying about her family’s earnings in order to receive welfare, court documents indicate.
Lisa Latta pleaded not guilty in Island County Superior Court Nov. 15 to charges of first-degree theft, second-degree perjury and welfare — false public assistance verification.
A 29-year-old Oak Harbor man is wanted on a $10,000 warrant for allegedly raping a child, court documents indicate.
Island County Superior Court Judge Alan Hancock authorized the warrant after the defendant, Charles Arik, didn’t appear at a Nov. 29 hearing. Arik was charged Nov. 10 with the rape of a child in the third degree, a sex offense that carries a standard sentencing range of a year to a year and two months in prison.
Pearl Harbor survivors will be remembered and honored next week at an annual ceremony at Crescent Harbor Marina near the Navy Exchange.
The public will have a chance to weigh in on the location of a proposed $70-million wastewater treatment facility in Oak Harbor next week.
The state Attorney General’s Office is attempting to have a man who committed a home-invasion rape on South Whidbey 13 years ago classified as a “sexually violent predator” and confined indefinitely to the McNeil Island special commitment center.
A split opinion by the Washington State Supreme Court likely means another trial in a lawsuit over the 1995 death of Edward Gregoire, a 23-year-old man who hanged himself in the Oak Harbor Jail after being arrested on a misdemeanor traffic warrant.
Whidbey Island Naval Air Station Patrol Squadron VP-46 “Grey Knights” began arriving home from a six-month deployment on Monday.
We gracious and admirable people will say that Christmas isn’t about gifts or lighting displays. We’ll say the holiday is about love, family or religious beliefs. All of the knickknacks and decorations don’t really matter to us. But in addition to our more saintly qualities, we’re also realistic people. And we know that if the in-laws take the effort to fly in from miles away, they’ll be expecting more than love to adorn the living room. It’s time to start shopping for that holiday staple, the Christmas tree.
I was really surprised by the arrogance and mean-spiritedness of Lyle Bull’s letter to the editor in the Nov. 17 Whidbey News-Times.