Oak Harbor decision-makers have, for the second time in as many months, declined to narrow the number of possible wastewater treatment locations to three finalists.
A man was killed Thursday when the small aircraft he was piloting crashed into a bluff on Whidbey Island. Authorities identified the pilot late Friday as Michael Heaton Sr., 59, a six-month resident of Whidbey Island.
An estimated 500 people braved Old Man Winter’s chill to attend the eighth annual tree lighting ceremony in downtown Oak Harbor Saturday.
It was a frosty evening with temperatures dipping into the high 30s but it didn’t seem to cool the holiday mood on SE Pioneer Way. Whether grinning over the rim of a prized cup of hot cocoa, taking a frigid carriage ride or craning their necks for a glimpse of Santa Claus, people seemed to be having a good time everywhere you looked.
Island County Commissioner Angie Homola, a Democrat, will seek reelection in 2012 but her bid for the District 2 seat will not go uncontested.
On Monday, just two weeks after she declared her candidacy, Oak Harbor City Councilman Jim Campbell announced his intention to challenge Homola for the position as a leading Republican candidate.
It’s back.
The black fencing that hid the archaeological site on SE Pioneer Way in Oak Harbor for months has been resurrected after a three-week hiatus. Only this time it’s much smaller and in what used to be the northern lane of the now one-way road.
According to the city’s weekly construction alert, the new enclosure was erected to shield from view a small triangular area that still needs to be excavated by hand. It could not be included in the original dig site “for the simple reason that it was underneath or just outside the fence,” the alert said.
Oak Harbor Mayor-elect Scott Dudley is still nearly a month away from taking office yet some of his biggest critics on the city council may be trying to subvert, or at least delay, some of his plans.
In a surprise move that caused more than a few jaws to drop at a special meeting Monday, City Councilman Rick Almberg made a last-minute motion to discuss a six-month freeze on the hiring and firing of city employees for budgetary and operational reasons at the first meeting in December — a meeting Dudley will not be in town to attend.
A restoration project at Ala Spit is once again making waves with concerned North Whidbey residents.
Besieged with high tides and blustery winter conditions, a section of the spit the county spent nearly a month removing rip-rap from this past fall began to give way Wednesday, Nov. 23, when large amounts of newly placed sediment began washing into the adjacent estuary.
Hoping to start the holiday season off with a good taste in your mouth, Pioneer Way shopkeepers will be giving out free chocolate this weekend shortly before the annual tree lighting ceremony on Dock Street.
Sweets on the Street, an event in which merchants will offer chocolate goodies and hot cider to customers – no matter how naughty or nice they may have been – begins at 3 p.m. Saturday and kicks off a day full of Christmas-related festivities.
It appears the problems that plagued the N. Oak Harbor Street Improvement project have come back to bite the city after all.
Over the objections of one city councilman, Oak Harbor is once again refusing to increase the amount it pays for tourism promotion in Island County — at least for now.
A new wastewater treatment plant at the old city shops? No way, say officials with the Fleet Reserve Association of Oak Harbor.
Branch 97 of the national organization, or more appropriately its five-acre property next to the city’s facility, is intrinsically linked to the site’s viability as a location for the new sewer plant. By itself, the city-owned land is too small, which means the Fleet Reserve’s property would need to be acquired.
With all great stories, one chapter closes and another one opens.
An Oak Harbor artist who wants to donate a bronze for SE Pioneer Way has formally withdrawn his proposal.
At an Arts Commission meeting Nov. 14, Wayne Lewis voluntarily agreed to postpone his plans to see the three-foot tall figure installed on a pedestal at one of three proposed locations downtown. His decision was based largely on the recommendations of key city officials to put the piece elsewhere.