Oak Harbor High School academic achievers received honors for high grade point averages at the 15th annual Academic Letter Awards Ceremony Wednesday night.
Coupeville Elementary School’s Drama Club is changing the “shalls,” “doths” and “twixts” of six Shakespeare plays into language families can actually understand. The students will present the plays Friday, Feb. 17 at 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.
The Oak Harbor Middle School cafeteria was packed Feb. 1 with pointing, “oohs” and applause as approximately 500 community members viewed art by Oak Harbor and North Whidbey middle school students.
“That’s not just a piece of steel. That’s a sculpture,” Archie Nichols of Nichols Brothers Boat Builders in Freeland told Oak Harbor High School students Thursday as he came to pick up the completed midsection of the Admiralty Head Lighthouse’s lantern house.
Metal shop students from the three Whidbey Island high schools have, since 2010, been pouring hours into recreating the original lantern house.
From wearing rocks as jewelry to connecting with another era through rocks transformed into arrowheads, rocks have a way of being artistic and compelling and the Whidbey Island Gem Club wants to show the community how incredible rocks can be.
The Gem Club will roll out a variety of special rocks, from shiny jewelry to elegant pendants and even wire-wrapped insects, at their 47th annual Sweetheart of Gems show, on display Saturday, Feb. 11 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 12 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Oak Harbor Senior Center, located at 51 Jerome St. Admission to the show is free.
Riley Grace Borden is wasting no time making her dreams come true. By age 12, she has already advanced through five levels of one of the top ballet schools in the country and will dance in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s American premiere production of “Don Quixote.”
A dead body is trouble enough for Mrs. Piper, but a dead body that won’t stay in one place is even worse.
One minute, Mrs. Piper sees her boss, Richard Marshall, lying dead in a chair with a knife in his back but by the time the police arrive, the body is gone.
Zombies are coming to Whidbey Island and you can groan and dance along as the Oak Harbor High School Choir Club and Media Arts Club create “Thrill the Island,” an island-wide music video of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” To participate, zombies must attend a dance workshop Saturday, Feb. 25 from noon to 3 p.m. at the Oak Harbor High School gym.
A touch of magic isn’t just in Brittany Geragotelis’ books anymore. Since the publication of her first book, “Life’s a Witch,” the Oak Harbor native has been enjoying the magical feeling of success.
Cold mornings will no longer eat up gallons of diesel fuel from idling buses thanks to a Department of Ecology grant that paid for “pre-heaters” for every school bus in the Oak Harbor School District.
The pre-heaters use timers to warm bus engines before they are started, which eliminates the need for idling.
The state Department of Ecology awarded a $156,000 grant, which covered the cost of each $3,600 unit plus installation costs for 40 buses, according to Francis Bagarella, Oak Harbor School District director of transportation.
A blanket can provide security, but to struggling youth on Whidbey Island, it can also mean a shoulder to cry on, a warm embrace and comfort during troubled times.
Project Linus is a nonprofit organization of volunteers who create blankets “to provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized or otherwise in need,” according to their mission statement.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream will never end as long as speakers like Stu Cabe pass the message along to students willing to put in the effort to change their schools.
Cabe presents his anti-bullying message around the nation and spoke to high school and middle school students this week. He also came to Oak Harbor last year.
Sailors sang shanties while hard at work, and these musicians will be hard at work singing to benefit the three medical support groups on Whidbey Island at the third annual Shanty Fest.
