I was leafing through the Sunday newspaper advertising flyers when I came upon a weird product, something called “K-Y Intense”…
When times are tough, Island Transit always comes under fire for not charging fares to the freeloaders such as myself…
Island Transit officials will begin a series of public meetings next week to explain the need for a sales tax increase to keep the bus system operating without major cutbacks.
After 42-years selling furniture, Janice Fischer deserves a chance to sit on a couch and just relax for a while.
Fischer recently sold her Bargain Center business located just outside the main gate of Whidbey Island Naval Air Station on Ault Field Road.
The nondescript bushes are overlooked 11 months of the year on Whidbey Island, but in June the flowers pop out and suddenly we’re decorated with wild roses.
Like most people, I am befuddled and confused about Island County’s new septic system regulations, mainly because as an American,…
The Cascade subduction zone gives way, causing the largest earthquake in the Pacific Northwest since the last time it did that, 300 years ago.
Perry Harris took advantage of the Memorial Day crowd heading to Maple Leaf Cemetery to stage a noisy but peaceful one-man protest over the closure of a trailer park.
“What did they die for — for us to be kicked out?!,” Harris demanded of passersby Monday morning.
With more than 800 U.S. flags flapping gently over the graves of military veterans, a sizable group of Oak Harbor residents gathered on a sunny Monday morning for a solemn Memorial Day ceremony at Maple Leaf Cemetery.
“I was particularly glad to seen the number of families with kids so they’ll understand freedom is not free,” said Ben Bunnell, a Navy veteran and member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7392.
There’s a colorful lining in this year’s unusually cold spring: many of Whidbey Island’s rhododendrons will be in full bloom Memorial Day weekend.
Highway 20 on North Whidbey south of the Libby Road intersection is festooned with the pink blossoms of wild rhododendrons, and others both tame and wild can be seen further south, particularly in the Greenbank area.
“A Dawn Like Thunder” is a book that draws on the memories of Oak Harbor resident Harry Ferrier to depict the incredible courage of American aircrews during the early months of World War II in the Pacific, when the war’s outcome was very much in doubt.
News watchers know that on the far south end of our fair isle, several homes were almost demolished when water…
