A Central Whidbey blockhouse that has fallen into disrepair may get some spare parts from a historic casket factory in Everett.
Paul Dziedzic may have his work cut out for him.
The Island County commissioners hired Dziedzic, a consultant, to facilitate a retreat with the three members of the board on Feb. 9, but he may find a political divide in the way of progress.
It didn’t bring offices to a complete standstill, but a catastrophic failure of Island County government’s email server disrupted work for nearly a week and could mean the loss of voluminous data.
An Oak Harbor couple did a little detective work last week and discovered that diesel fuel had been mistakenly placed in a premium unleaded fuel pump at the Safeway gas station.
The attorneys for a former Island County commissioner and two county employees claim that a lawsuit filed against them by County Commissioner Kelly Emerson and her husband late last year was “frivolous and asserted without good cause.”
A 25-year-old man who was driving a car that got shot up in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day in Oak Harbor was charged in a gun-related assault that was reported at about the same time as the shooting, according to court documents.
Island County officials are applying for a large federal grant that would help very low-income homeowners in the community rehabilitate and weatherize their homes.
A reinvigorated campaign is under way to raise $3.5 million to build a large, airy, state-of-the-art building on Whidbey Island to house homeless dogs and cats until new homes can be found for them.
Board members of Whidbey Animals’ Improvement Foundation, or WAIF, have been planning for years to replace the aging animal shelter on Highway 20 south of Coupeville.
After more than a decade of fighting between officials from Island County and the state Auditor’s Office over an accounting issue, the state Attorney General’s Office finally weighed in with an official opinion.
A 46-year-old Oak Harbor man became upset on Christmas when an expected guest didn’t visit, then choked his wife and broke a flat-screen TV, according to a report by Oak Harbor police.
A forensic odontologist helped investigators identify a body that was washed ashore in Greenbank Dec. 14 as 47-year-old Edwin “Randy” Brown of Arlington, according to the Island County Sheriff’s Office.
Brown was last seen on the night of Oct. 9 at a camping site near the Stillaguamish River in Arlington. His friends reported his disappearance to the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.
Investigators have discovered that Peter Moote, a longtime South Whidbey attorney, may have stolen millions of dollars from about 30 former clients, according to Detective Sgt. Mike Beech with the Island County Sheriff’s Office.
The new Island County assessor filed a court action against the county and her predecessor in order to get a disciplinary letter removed from her file.
