Oak Harbor Mayor Scott Dudley returned to work this week after donating a kidney and promptly fired the city attorney.
Meanwhile, other changes are coming soon to city leadership.
The mayor didn’t return calls for comment Friday, but he sent out a notice to employees and council members that simply states Hawkins is no longer serving as the city attorney as of June 1.
Plans to kill a few geese and goslings that annoy some residents of a Greenbank lake community have upset fans of the waterfowl and spawned an online petition drive to save them.
A 24-year-old homeless man and registered sex offender was recently sent to jail for burglarizing buildings in Oak Harbor earlier this year.
The Coast Guard rescued two divers Saturday who had been swept away in strong currents near Smith Island, which is six nautical miles west of Whidbey Island.
The Coast Guard received a report that two divers had gone missing at 7:35 p.m. An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew took off from Air Station Port Angeles and located the divers, who were using flashlights to signal for help, according to Coast Guard Petty Officer Nate Littlejohn.
A 32-year-old man who had been convicted of assaulting his girlfriend saw his 10-week-old baby for the first time in Island County Superior Court Monday, May 21, but it may be awhile before he gets to see the infant again.
The baby’s mother petitioned the court to rescind a court order that barred Joshua Graham from contacting her. Her request, however, ended with an angry exchange between a judge and the victim.
The proximity of rare plants and an international communications cable may present obstacles for a plan to locate tidal turbines in Admiralty Inlet.
The Snohomish County Public Utility District submitted a final license application in March to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a permit to install two energy-producing turbines in Admiralty Inlet. The proposed location is one kilometer west of Central Whidbey’s Keystone Harbor.
An 18-year-old Oak Harbor man accused of robbing a convenience store at gunpoint in February is back in jail.
A 41-year-old Clinton woman accused of being an accomplice in the shotgun murder of her boyfriend’s wife pleaded guilty to a lesser charge May 16 in Whatcom County Superior Court.
A committee has proposed a plan that’s aimed at helping Oak Harbor’s struggling marina by offering special deals to encourage long-term moorage.
An increase in reports of sexual assaults, including two high-profile sexual predator cases in Oak Harbor, has spurred the county sheriff and others to put together a panel discussion about the issue.
Sheriff Mark Brown said the “Community Discussion of Predator Prevention” is aimed at educating parents and other adults about keeping children safe from sexual predators. He said a lot of people are talking and speculating about sex offenders and pedophiles because of the publicized cases, so it’s a good time to broach the subject.
A 31-year-old Oak Harbor man will be going to prison for repeatedly violating a court order to stay away from his ex-girlfriend, according to court documents.
Documents from a protection order hearing allege that 22-year-old Greenbank resident George Downey perpetrated a pattern of domestic and sexual violence long before he kidnapped and threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend and their 4-year-old son March 16.
Detectives investigating a former church youth ministry leader accused of child molestation have found that he’s been in close contact with children through a number of entities in Oak Harbor over the years.
Ronald Asplund, a 57-year-old Oak Harbor resident, was accused of molesting and raping two teenage boys. He met one of the boys through Oak Harbor Lutheran Church, where he had been the middle school ministry coordinator until a couple of months ago.
