Two people were hospitalized Nov. 4 when their mobile home in Oak Harbor was gutted by a fire.
Just as the guilt from that Halloween-candy binge begins to lift, it’s time to start thinking about another gut buster. Dig out the elastic-waisted sweatpants from the drawer. The North Whidbey Community Harvest free Thanksgiving dinner is approaching, and coordinators don’t plan to stiff on the meals.
The Island County Sheriff’s Office has announced that a level 3 sex offender is being released from the state Department of Corrections today and will be homeless in Oak Harbor.
All eyes will be on the Oak Police Department next week as a vote Monday by members of its employee union will determine whether they are the only city employees to get raises in 2011.
Thank you, everyone, for your interest and support in the 2010 campaign to re-elect Island County Commissioner John Dean.
The high school fall sports season concludes with the state volleyball and swimming tournaments this weekend, which means winter sports are just around the corner.
Island County Commissioner John Dean has thrown in the towel, conceding defeat to Camano Island Republican Kelly Emerson, but the Tea Party member says she has no plans to drop her lawsuit against Dean and two other county employees over an October political mailer.
Most of the children on Whidbey Island are cared for well. Their parents provide them with dressers full of clean T-shirts and jeans. As we head into the winter months, they’ll be dressed in warm jackets, and when we make it into summer their skin will be slathered with sunscreen.
A Whidbey Sea-Tac shuttle bus was involved in a five-car accident late afternoon that caused a lengthy backup of traffic on Interstate 5 in Lynnwood.
Trooper Keith Leary with the Washington State Patrol, who was on scene, said one of the six people on the bus suffered a minor injury, but it wasn’t serious enough to warrant a ride to the hospital.
The once familiar whine of Whidbey Island Naval Air Station’s first permanently assigned jet bomber may once again be heard roaring its way over Oak Harbor skies.
Beginning next week, for the first time in about three years, Central Whidbey will once again be served by its very own vessel.
Indeed, the celebration planned for Sunday, Nov. 14, will not only mark the arrival of the Chetzemoka — the first new ferry the state has built in more than a decade — to the Coupeville-to-Port Townsend ferry route, but it also marks the end of years of Band-Aid service on the run.
After abruptly pulling the antiquated Steel Electric ferries from service nearly three years ago, Washington State Ferries has spent millions of dollars to keep a vehicle ferry running out of Keystone Harbor on Central Whidbey, with more money due to be spent.
The amount Whidbey General Hospital collects for two levies will increase by the maximum allowed 1 percent beginning in 2011.