A fundraiser this weekend will allow Whidbey Island dog owners to help in the fight against doggie cancer.
After spending what will be nine years as executive director, Jim Patton will soon call it a day.
The commissioners for the Port of Coupeville recently approved a contract that keeps Patton employed until the end of 2013. After that, he is planning to retire and spend more time with family.
“I have five kids and 10 grandkids,” Patton said.
From examining the math program to implementing a new evaluation system, Karen Koschak has a lot to complete as the temporary head of the Coupeville School District.
Koschak said staff has to look at how the school district’s curriculum meets national core standards, continue implementing a new evaluation system for teachers and principals and continue updating the district’s computers and technology. That update is possible using levy dollars Central Whidbey voters recently approved.
Greenbank Farm was once the largest producer of loganberries in the United States.
James House was recently installed as president of the Oak Harbor Lions Club.
The North Whidbey Park and Recreation District commissioners have decided not to move forward with purchasing the Deception Pass Dash, a kayak race that takes place every December.
Whidbey Island’s only store devoted to cameras and images is shuttering its doors this month.
Celebrating its 30th year, a popular series of races will draw hundreds of boats and even more racers to Whidbey Island beginning this weekend.
Whidbey Island Race Week starts today, July 14, and continues throughout the week before wrapping up Friday. Racers will sail in Saratoga Passage and in Penn Cove near Coupeville depending on sailing conditions.
One person was killed and two were injured in a two-car, head-on collision that occurred at 8 p.m. Thursday on Highway 20 north of Oak Harbor.
A helicopter landed on the closed highway to airlift an injured woman to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for treatment. A trooper at the scene said the woman appeared to have suffered a femoral artery bleed.
A recent change in state law is forcing the commissioners for Whidbey General Hospital to re-appoint its newest member.
The elected board will re-appoint Georgia Gardner during a special meeting Thursday, July 5, at 9 a.m. in the Whidbey General Hospital board room. The commissioners have to revisit the decision because the previous meeting didn’t comply with recent changes made to the Open Public Meetings Act.
A group of dedicated martial artists is working to see substance trumps style.
Thirty or so students practicing Shorin-Ryu Seibukan karate gathered at the Coupeville Recreation Hall recently to attended a seminar that featured a supreme instructor who flew in from Okinawa. Students attending the three-day long event came as far away as Alaska and South Dakota.
Hanshi Zenpo Shimabukuro visited Whidbey Island as part of a three-stop visit across the United States. On June 15, a dozen or so black belts were on hand to fine-tune their forms, or katas, with someone who has been the a supreme instructor of the school of karate since 1969.
Over the past five years, the Coupeville School District has seen changes ranging from the completion of a new high school to a trimming of approximately 10 percent of its budget.
The school district saw another change Friday when Superintendent Patty Page finished her tenure in the Coupeville School District. She announced her resignation in the spring so she can take the superintendent position in the North Kitsap School District.
Tents have been popping up throughout Oak Harbor filled with the explosive things people will use to celebrate the Fourth of July.
Several organizations started selling fireworks Thursday and will continue through the Fourth of July holiday on Wednesday.
