With the growing trend of fraudulent phone calls happening across the nation, the Coupeville Marshal’s Office is taking a proactive approach to better educate local residents.
Coupeville was named this week as one of the country’s 100 best small towns in 2015.
The list, compiled by Livability.com, recognized cities and towns that have that tight-knit community feel, but also have amenities expected in larger cities.
The commencement ceremony for Coupeville High School’s 115th graduating class will take place at 6 p.m. Friday in the school’s gymnasium.
Fear of the unknown isn’t anything new, and it seems there’s a certain degree of misunderstanding surrounding the Navy’s plans to use electromagnetic transmitters on the Olympic Peninsula.
The Navy, as a government entity, isn’t great with communicating with the public these days, and it is encountering significant resistance to its plans for transmitters, which would aid in training of EA-18G Growler fliers.
Monday, May 18
At 11:29 a.m., a caller reported finding a shopping cart filled with medical waste on Northwest Crosby Avenue.
At 1:24 p.m., there was a report of people living in a camper on Southwest Regency Drive.
Tuesday, May 19
At 2:20 p.m., a Cordero Place resident asked to talk to an officer about roosters.
Rae Wood, an administrator with deep ties to the community, was selected as the new principal for Oak Harbor Middle School.
Wood starts in her new role on July 1.
Oak Harbor city buildings and street lamps are getting new energy efficient lights, an upgrade that is expected to save taxpayers thousands of dollars annually.
Once work is finished, a late night stroll downtown may look a little different too.
The scent got Alec Wiedeman’s attention even before he reached the front door.
Once inside, his eyes lit up and he followed his nose.
“Hamburgers!” Wiedeman called out. “Oh my God! I smell them!”
The paving project from Frostad Road to Sharpes corner begins Monday, June 8 and will include five nights of full closures for Deception Pass and Canoe Pass bridges in mid-July or August.
The project is expected create substantial traffic delays as contractor crews repave four sections along the highway for the state Department of Transportation.
The Everett Connector is likely to be restored by a bill that is expected to be signed by Gov. Jay Inslee in the coming weeks.
The state House of Representatives and Senate approved $1 million in the 2015-17 biennial budget to reinstate the Everett Connector.
The governor has 20 days to act on the bill once his office receives it, likely this week.
Nearly half of Island County’s homeless are working.
This fact is one of several revelations discussed in recent weeks with Island County commissioners as the result of the 2015 point-in-time count performed in January.
“This year we feel we have come closer to what we consider a close coverage count,” said Joanne Pelant, Island County’s housing resource coordinator who organized the count.”
Navy officials say a plan to introduce electromagnetic transmitters to its electronic-warfare training on the Olympic Peninsula is no threat to people, animals or the environment.
In fact, they say, the transmitters are no more powerful than the output of a television news van.
But that isn’t deterring so many people from commenting on the plan that the U.S. Forest Service is delaying its decision on whether to grant the Navy a special-use permit in order to sort through the comments.