An Island County Superior Court judge handed a 49-year-old Oak Harbor child molester the maximum sentence at a hearing last Thursday.
Earlier this year, a jury convicted Kenneth Martin of two counts of first-degree child molestation following a short trial.
Island County elected officials will get a 5 percent pay increase next year after all.
County Budget Director Elaine Marlow said she missed a deadline, so there’s no way to prevent the salary hike from kicking in.
“It’s my fault,” Marlow said this week.
A 63-year-old Freeland man is accused of choking a woman and threatening “to chop her into little pieces” with a hatchet, according to a report by a deputy with the Island County Sheriff’s Office.
A 27-year-old Oak Harbor man with a history of violating protection orders could end up in prison for up to five years if convicted of new charges filed against him, court documents indicate.
An Oak Harbor husband and wife, the parents of six children, have jumped into races for two Island County elected offices.
At the same time, Camano Island resident Tom Riggs, a park ranger and a Democrat, is challenging state Rep. Barbara Bailey (R-Oak Harbor).
By Tuesday afternoon, candidate filing week already had some surprises and a lot of familiar names. The Island County Auditor’s Office is keeping an updated list of candidates online.
Two Oak Harbor residents were injured in separate accidents on North Whidbey over the weekend.
Late Sunday afternoon, Jessica Adkins, a 19-year-old Oak Harbor woman, survived a one-car rollover accident in which she was ejected and ended up underneath the car. She was in stable condition at Whidbey General Hospital Tuesday morning.
A 60-year-old Oak Harbor man injured June 5 in an accident on Highway 20, just north of Oak Harbor, remains in serious condition Monday in the intensive care unit of Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Candidate filing week opens Monday, June 7 and offers a wide range of Island County elected positions, as well as a number of legislative and judicial seats, for potential candidates to strive for.
For the first time this year, the Island County Auditor’s Office is allowing candidates to file online and pay filing fees by credit or debit cards electronically.
A proposal to turn a historic barn in Central Whidbey into a rural event center has opened a rift among the residents of the scenic neighborhood.
A 45-year-old Oak Harbor man is accused of threatening a woman with a knife and punching her, court documents state.
Shane Leach pleaded not guilty in Island County Superior Court May 20 to assault in the second degree.
The total assessed value of Island County plummeted by 12.3 percent for the tax year 2011, county Assessor Dave Mattens announced Thursday.
Yet another mobile home park in Oak Harbor is in danger of being razed, inevitably exacerbating the lack of affordable housing on Whidbey Island.
A handful of small publications on Whidbey Island have played an important role in the history of the area. The newspapers documented the people and events, but also focused attention on needs, promoted community projects, stoked outrage, occasionally made folks laugh, and perhaps most of all, educated readers about their own place in the world.
