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    Articles by Brandon Taylor
    Oak Harbor looks at minimizing utility rate increase
    Oak Harbor looks at minimizing utility rate increase
    By Brandon Taylor • March 27, 2020 1:30 am

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

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    Photo provided                                Fran Leukhardt hands out food and educational materials from an Oak Harbor School District bus.
    Oak Harbor School District deploys buses to distribute...
    By Brandon Taylor • March 24, 2020 1:30 am

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

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    Island Transit adjusts routes as ridership drops 26 percent
    Island Transit adjusts routes as ridership drops 26...
    By Brandon Taylor • March 20, 2020 1:30 am

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

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    Oak Harbor city council OKs construction of crosswalk on Bayshore
    Oak Harbor city council OKs construction of crosswalk...
    By Brandon Taylor • March 20, 2020 1:30 am

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

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    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.
    City looks at raising marina revenue
    By Brandon Taylor • March 17, 2020 1:30 am

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

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    High school students offer free babysitting
    High school students offer free babysitting
    By Brandon Taylor • March 17, 2020 1:30 am

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

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    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.”
    4th grade students publish book on Salish Sea
    By Brandon Taylor • March 13, 2020 1:30 am

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

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    Activities
    Activities
    By Brandon Taylor • March 13, 2020 1:30 am

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

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    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.
    Musselfest muscles on
    By Brandon Taylor • March 10, 2020 1:30 am

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

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    Poet says ‘yes,’ then publishes his work
    Poet says ‘yes,’ then publishes his work
    By Brandon Taylor • March 10, 2020 1:30 am

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

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    Drive-up pharmacy, Oak Harbor clinic in hospital plans
    Drive-up pharmacy, Oak Harbor clinic in hospital plans
    By Brandon Taylor • March 10, 2020 1:30 am

    A number of changes are in the works for WhidbeyHealth.

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    Photo by Brandon Taylor/Whidbey News-Times                                Officer Scott Johnson and School Resource Officer Jeremy Andreano will patrol Oak Harbor on electric bikes.
    Oak Harbor police set to put the mettle...
    By Brandon Taylor • March 6, 2020 1:30 am

    Oak Harbor residents may see police officers on electric bikes.

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    Oak Harbor road construction gets underway this summer
    Oak Harbor road construction gets underway this summer
    By Brandon Taylor • March 6, 2020 1:30 am

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

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