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Oak Harbor looks at minimizing utility rate increase

The monthly rate Oak Harbor residents pay for city-provided utilities will increase over the next four years, but…

Photo provided                                Fran Leukhardt hands out food and educational materials from an Oak Harbor School District bus.

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Oak Harbor School District deploys buses to distribute food

In response to the pandemic, Oak Harbor School District buses are distributing food and educational material at designated…

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Island Transit adjusts routes as ridership drops 26 percent

Beginning March 23, Island Transit will remove many of its Whidbey Island routes in response to the coronavirus…

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Oak Harbor city council OKs construction of crosswalk on Bayshore

Pedestrian improvements are planned for Oak Harbor’s Windjammer Park.

Photo by Brandon Taylor/Whidbey News-Times Harbormaster Chris Sublet is working to improve the Oak Harbor Marina and hopes to raise chinook salmon in pens.

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City looks at raising marina revenue

Efforts are underway to breathe new life into the Oak Harbor Marina.

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High school students offer free babysitting

On the last day of school at Oak Harbor High School before mandatory closure, teachers handed their students…

Photo by Brandon Taylor/Whidbey News-Times                                John Del Prete’s fourth-grade class tears into the box that has their published book “Invisible Pollution in the Salish Sea.”

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4th grade students publish book on Salish Sea

John Del Prete’s fourth-grade class crowded around two cardboard boxes stacked on a small cluster of desks near…

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Activities

Due to growing concerns related to the coronavirus, most of the calendar events submitted to the Whidbey News-Times…

Photo by Brandon Taylor/Whidbey News-Times                                Denny DeWispelaere from Oak Harbor receives a tasting of Freeland Caffe’s Manhattan style chowder from Jill Bassett and Miranda Baugh.

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Musselfest muscles on

Unlike some other events across the country and state that were canceled because of coronavirus concerns, Coupeville’s annual…

Poet says ‘yes,’ then publishes his work

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Poet says ‘yes,’ then publishes his work

Oak Harbor poet Daniel Edward Moore has published two books in the span of three months and is…

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Drive-up pharmacy, Oak Harbor clinic in hospital plans

A number of changes are in the works for WhidbeyHealth.

Photo by Brandon Taylor/Whidbey News-Times                                Officer Scott Johnson and School Resource Officer Jeremy Andreano will patrol Oak Harbor on electric bikes.

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Oak Harbor police set to put the mettle to the pedal

Oak Harbor residents may see police officers on electric bikes.

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Oak Harbor road construction gets underway this summer

Construction on Fort Nugent Road and Loerland Drive is expected to occur in the summer followed by road…