The name “Laura Lewis” will appear on the ballot next to “Norma Smith” in the November general election.
A 29-year-old Oak Harbor man is accused of violating a court order by calling his ex-girlfriend at least a half dozen times and threatening to kill her, court documents indicate.
A Level 2 sex offender being released from jail today will live at an Oak Harbor home on Highway 20, according to the Island County Sheriff’s Office.
A 38-year-old Oak Harbor man who was caught red-handed burglarizing a home received the maximum prison sentence after a brief trial.
Investigators are looking at a number of missing persons cases in the Puget Sound region, including the high-profile disappearance of a Silverdale woman, to find a possible match with a human foot that washed up on the east side of Central Whidbey Island near Greenbank last Friday.
A cantankerous Central Whidbey woman will go to jail Tuesday after losing a dispute involving her neighbors, county officials and Puget Sound Energy.
Another former altar boy has come forward to accuse a now-defrocked Oak Harbor priest of sexually abusing him 30 years ago.
There was a successful intervention in the Island County commissioners’ meeting Monday afternoon. South Whidbey attorney Douglas Kelly, on behalf of Central Whidbey couple James Moore and Sue Symons, filed a motion to intervene in Paula Spina’s closed record appeal hearing scheduled to go before the commissioners Oct. 4.
Mark Lenocker pulled the first of three lids off a septic mound system at a North Whidbey home Wednesday afternoon and immediately knew something was wrong. A solid mass of shiny-brown sewage was at the top, nearly overflowing from the underground tank.
The Island County sheriff has come out fighting in response to voters’ overwhelming rejection of Proposition 1 in Tuesday’s primary, asking that county commissioners eliminate all funding for programs not specifically required by law.
he Aug. 17 primary election was a smashing success for Republicans in Island County and may signal a conservative takeover of a number of county offices in the upcoming general election.
The Island County Republican Party campaigned against Proposition 1, the county’s proposed property tax levy lid lift, with overwhelming success. The measure is failing with 71 percent of the votes against it.
An Island County deputy who crashed a motorcycle while he was off duty last month is under investigation for allegedly driving under the influence.
The first count of ballots for Tuesday’s primary election doesn’t look good for Proposition 1, the property tax increase that officials hoped would fill the $2 million hole in Island County’s 2011 current expense fund.
