Oak Harbor High School held its annual senior assembly Friday, during which eighteen awards were given to 24 different students before their peers.
High school graduation is a rite of passage that seniors look forward to all school year.
At Oak Harbor High School, there’s another tradition that students anticipate.
A long-standing ritual at the end of the school year for seniors is gathering all of the paper assignments they’ve saved throughout the school year and tossing them in the air as soon as the final bell rings on their last day.
To raise awareness, raise money, honor the fallen and to celebrate the survivors.
About 1,500 attended last weekend’s Relay for Life of Whidbey Island, and each participant’s reasons for attending were unique.
The common denominator, however, was cancer.
Relay for Life of Whidbey Island kicked off at 6 p.m. Friday at North Whidbey Middle School.
Oak Harbor School District is looking to expand music education for students.
Starting in the 2014-15 school year, the middle schools hope to be able to offer fifth grade band classes during first period for the elementary students.
Oak Harbor High School was the site of a mock-drunk driving car accident Friday, May 16.
The event, sponsored by Students Against Drunk Driving, otherwise known as SADD, was an education event about the dangers of driving while intoxicated, and it included the Oak Harbor Fire Department, North Whidbey Fire and Rescue, Whidbey General Hospital and the Oak Harbor Police Department.
Oak Harbor schools are getting an online makeover.
The school district launched 10 new websites for itself, the district’s eight schools and HomeConnection.
North Whidbey Middle School is holding a canned food drive to benefit Relay for Life and North Whidbey Help House.
The food drive, which started Monday, collects canned food only. Donations will be accepted for two weeks.
Now entering its second decade, the Oak Harbor’s Farmers Market is continuing to offer a bounty of healthful foods and products.
The market kicked off its season Thursday, May 16.
Oak Harbor School Board approved a new fee schedule Monday for the 2014-15 school year.
Many of the fees were decreased or altogether eliminated.
Peter Szalai, president of the Oak Harbor Education Association for 11 years, officially stepped down from his leadership position last week, passing the title to the vice president, Kathy Ridle.
An Oak Harbor elementary school is lucky enough to have fine-feathered royalty.
Miles Mumper, a fifth grader at Hillcrest, was appointed as the “chicken king” about a month ago, after Paula Seaman purchased 13 baby chicks for the school.
It all started with Nan Leaman’s locks.
At least, it did for Jodi Wilke, one of three team members participating in Port Townsend’s Wearable Art Show.
Wilke’s and Leaman’s team also includes Bobbi Lauducci.
The trio is designing and producing a coat made from hand-crafted felt for the Wearable Art Show, and the starring feature is wool locks from Leaman’s Old English Long Wool sheep.
Oak Harbor School District has launched a new student safety tip line for students, staff and parents who feel unsafe.
The number, a hotline where callers can leave messages about any issue, is available for anyone who doesn’t feel comfortable with “normal avenues of communication,” according to Superintendent Lance Gibbon.