A 32-year-old former Oak Harbor resident who cooperated with police and admitted to molesting a child was sentenced under a sentencing alternative that allows sex offenders to serve all or part of their sentence out of custody while participating in a sexual-deviancy treatment program.
A trio of eagle-eyed Whidbey News-Times reporters on a search for lattes Thursday morning discovered the whereabouts of a large aluminum lawn ornament that had been heisted from a yard in the Sierra development.
But the mystery of how the life-size wolf ended up on a sidewalk along S. Main Street in Coupeville remains unsolved.
The popular ABC News show 20/20 is running an investigative piece Friday night on Andrew King, a former Oak Harbor swim coach convicted of raping young swimmers, and the organization USA Swimming.
The piece investigated by Brian Ross, entitled “Inside USA Swimming: Secrets and Betrayal,” will run Friday, April 9 at 10 p.m. on ABC. A brief segment is also scheduled to be aired Friday on the 5:30 p.m. World News with Diane Sawyer.
Island County may follow the city of Oak Harbor’s lead in dealing with adult entertainment.
Island County Commissioner Helen Price Johnson told the planning director during a Monday meeting that she wanted county staff members to investigate ways to regulate strip clubs.
Working in the Island County Clerk’s Office may become a tad bit awkward when the election season heats up.
Oak Harbor resident Debra Van Pelt, an employee at the clerk’s office, announced that she will run against her boss in this fall’s election. Clerk Patricia Terry was appointed to the position by county commissioners last December. They are both Democrats.
A lunchroom lady at Coupeville High School is accused of stealing a wad of cash from a coworker’s purse, court documents indicate.
Prosecutors charged 39-year-old Iris Plyler in Island County Superior Court March 23 with second-degree theft, which is a felony.
Residents of Oak Harbor have fallen behind Coupeville and Langley in compliance rates for the 2010 Census.
As of Thursday afternoon, only 52 percent of Oak Harbor residents had completed and returned their census forms. Fifty-seven percent of Coupeville residents and 61 percent of Langley residence have complied with the census requirement, according to the census Web site at http://2010.census.gov.
The Navy has proposed to demolish 69 buildings at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station that are considered underutilized, excess or obsolete under a draft environmental assessment.
The targeted buildings are on both the Ault Field and Seaplane bases.
Investigators with the Oak Harbor police and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service took five suspected drug dealers off the streets of the city in the last two weeks, according to police.
A 25-year-old Oak Harbor man is accused of raping a grade-school girl nearly three years ago, court documents indicate.
Prosecutors charged 25-year-old Christopher Miller in Island County Superior Court March 5 with rape of a child in the first degree. He pleaded not guilty March 22.
An error in the Camano Island tax levy rate has led to extra work for an understaffed county department, wasted tax dollars, upset taxpayers and acrimony between county departments.
For Whidbey Island property owners, the error means the county will be slow in processing tax payments.
The Whidbey News-Times and South Whidbey Record will move into new, shared office space in Coupeville on Wednesday, March 31.
The News-Times’ office on Barrington Drive in Oak Harbor will shut down at the regular 5 p.m. closing time on Tuesday. The South Whidbey Record office in Bayview will close at 3 p.m.
Two former county commissioners are among the members of a citizen financial review committee charged with scrutinizing Island County’s five-year budget projection.
The seven members of the committee will begin meeting in April. It will probably take about four meetings, which haven’t been schedule yet, for the group to look over the county’s budget numbers, assumptions and projections.
