Island County’s 911 provider is charging every municipality it serves to recoup $300,000 it paid for several construction projects.
I-COM is looking to local police departments, EMS and fire departments to pay off loans that funded construction of a new tower on South Whidbey Island and remodeling of its Oak Harbor location.
Island County Treasurer Linda Riffe is miffed that she is one elected official who was not notified about an error in the Island County Assessor’s Office that could have cost the Coupeville School District more than $150,000.
Greenbank Farm officials are growing weary of a string of vandalism incidents located at the publicly owned farm’s off-leash dog area.
Several signs asking dog owners to keep their dogs leashed until they reach the 40-acre, off-leash area have been repeatedly vandalized over the past year.
Island County officials are busy this week correcting an error that could have cost the Coupeville School District $158,000.
It looks like the financially struggling county may have to absorb the assessor’s $158,000 mistake, at least until next year. Taxpayers who were off the hook this year will probably have to pay double next year to make up for the mistake. Fortunately, it equates to a modest amount for each property owner in the district.
Rockets, pulleys and acidity were just some of the topics students at an Oak Harbor elementary school have been studying in recent weeks.
Students at Crescent Harbor spent weeks learning the basics of the scientific process and developing a suitable experiment they presented during a science fair April 12 in the school’s gym.
The Port of Coupeville won’t become the next owner of an airport. In fact, officials won’t even study the possibility.
The three commissioners for the Port of Coupeville rejected conducting a feasibility study on whether the port should acquire the airport located on Monroe Landing Road, just inside the north boundary of Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve.
Central Whidbey residents appear to be using all of the extra space that came with the library expansion.
The Coupeville Public Library’s Alexander Street location reopened last month and more people than ever are going through the doors.
Managing Librarian Leslie Franzen said staff is seeing, on average, about 100 more people per day coming into the expanded building since it reopened. Between 400 and 450 people per day have been showing up.
‘It’s just been exciting,” Franzen said.
The Coupeville Town Council and the Board of Island County Commissioners will begin reviewing a new set of design standards that will affect homeowners living within the confines of Ebey’s Landing National Historic Reserve’s 17,000 acres.
Washington State Ferries’ newest vessel made its first voyage Saturday but is still a few months away from service.
The Chetzemoka, a 64-car Kwa-di Tabil class ferry, was towed from Todd Pacific Shipyard in Seattle to Everett Shipyard, where it will remain for the next several months. South Whidbey residents enjoyed the view of the vessel passing by.
A Whidbey-based nonprofit wants a new ferry named after a famed killer whale captured in Penn Cove years ago.
The Orca Network proposed naming a new, 64-car ferry of the “Kwa-di Tabil” class the Tokitae. The Network submitted the name to the Washington State Transportation Commission Thursday.
“That was the name given to the whale captured in Penn Cove in 1970,” said Howard Garrett, member of the Orca Network.
A conservation group hopes a county fund will help provide the money needed to pay for continued protection of native grasslands located near Outlying Field on Central Whidbey Island.
The Pacific Rim Institute for Environmental Stewardship is one of three groups applying for Island County’s Conservation Futures Funds.
New state regulations mean a Whidbey Island effort to name a new ferry will become competitive.
Several Coupeville groups and the Swinomish Tribal Community teamed up to float a proposal to name the second 64-car vessel to be built by the ferry system the Squi Qui. He was the leader of the Lower Skagit tribe and one of the signers of the Point Elliot Treaty.
Washington State Ferries is trying to educate motorists about something they should have learned in kindergarten — don’t cut in line.
The ferry system is introducing a new system that allows people to report drivers who cut in line before reaching the toll booth.