A 36-year-old Oak Harbor man accused of holding three different knives to his girlfriend’s throat three different times is facing felony charges, court documents indicate.
Oak Harbor resident Bill Robards is making a documentary movie about the tragedy at the small Washington town of Wellington nearly a century ago. An avalanche killed 96 passengers on two trains that were stuck in a snowstorm.
Island County elected officials and department heads decided to declare a financial emergency during a tense roundtable discussion Wednesday afternoon.
The resolution wouldn’t have any legal effect, Budget Director Elaine Marlow explained, but it would convey a message to the community and staff about the seriousness of the projected $1.2 million budget deficit next year.
Should people be able to build mini-storage facilities in the rural zones of Island County?
That’s the question Island County commissioners will have to decide before a new ordinance governing mini-storage can be adopted.
Island County commissioners took a step toward approving a new fee on county property that would fund two conservation districts.
The three commissioners unanimously approved a motion to instruct the county prosecutor to draft the necessary ordinance to implement the special assessment of $5 per parcel plus 5 cents per acre. But the ultimate passage of the ordinance may not be a slam dunk.
Island County Clerk Sharon Franzen has decided to retire from her elected office Dec. 15, a little over a year before her term is over.
“I had made it very clear that I was going to retire next year at the end of my four-year term, but several factors caused me to leave earlier than planned,” she said.
Island County is facing a $1.4 million deficit next year, according to county Budget Director Elaine Marlow.
Like most jurisdictions in the state, the recession has hit the county hard. County commissioners were forced to undergo two rounds of budget pairing over the last year, cutting $4 million and laying off dozens of employees.
A 19-year-old Oak Harbor woman was charged with felony assault for throwing a knife out a bedroom window at her drunken husband, court documents state.
Prosecutors charged Megan Roberts in Island County Superior Court Oct. 12 with assault in the second degree with a deadly weapon. It was filed as a domestic violence crime.
Police say a 31-year-old former Oak Harbor resident turned himself in after admitting to molesting a pre-teen girl, court documents indicate.
Prosecutors charged Joshua Lawrence, currently a Marysville resident, in Island County Superior Court Oct. 16 with three counts of child molestation in the first degree.
A 32-year-old Oak Harbor man who got tasered on the buttocks while fighting a police officer was sentenced this week.
Under a plea bargain, Travis McKinney pleaded guilty in Island County Superior Court Oct. 19 to fourth-degree assault and resisting arrest.
The judge sentenced McKinney to 365 days in jail, with all but 20 days suspended. Court documents indicate that the 20-day sentence may be converted to electronic home monitoring.
Langley resident Patricia Sylvester went on an emotional roller coaster ride in Island County Superior Court Monday.
Sylvester, 49, was on trial last week on a vehicular assault charge in connection with a head-on collision on Cultus Bay Road Oct. 3, 2008, that left a man with a collapsed lung and three fractured ribs.
A backlog in permits at the Island County planning department is costing jobs in tough times by delaying builders by weeks or even months, and some aren’t happy about it.
People drove as far as 25 miles to a county commissioners’ meeting in Coupeville Wednesday night to protest a proposed $5 assessment on parcels of land that would fund the two conservation districts that serve Island County.
