Frightville is getting a little crazy for its 15th year.
The annual haunted house held inside Oak Harbor’s century-old Roller Barn this month has chosen an “Asylum” theme for 2015.
Safety concerns have caused Jon Crimmins and other organizers of Fort Casey’s first Haunted Fort to condense and tone down the event into a more family-friendly affair.
Rick Castellano, Island County Museum’s executive director, recently got word that he needs to find a new site to store the museum’s collections.
Nearly every day, Dave Engle steps back in time.
The journey takes several steps, actually.
He travels by foot from the small house he shares with his wife Dolores on Ebey’s Prairie. He walks across his property, through the trees and under a mighty horse chestnut tree to reach the front porch of a grand old place where he, his parents, grandparents and great-grandparents once called home.
The Coupeville School District is welcoming a positive surge in enrollment this fall.
A count this month revealed 945 students, which halted a trend of declining enrollment and is the highest number of students in the school district since the 2011-12 school year.
In moderation, Randy Carr sees nothing wrong with a child munching on a little candy from time to time.
Flora Augusta Pearson Engle’s writings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries give a vivid picture of early Central Whidbey life. A video produced by the Island County Museum shares her story and provides a taste of those times
Seahawk superstitions run deep in the Abercrombie family and they’ll be on display again when the couple attends Seattle’s next game against the Detroit Lions on Monday Night Football.
When Dale Sherman slides open the massive door of a rustic, old barn, a musty scent immediately fills the nostrils.
It’s a creepy, old place, for sure, with dusty cobwebs galore, hooks and ropes that dangle from the rafters and a large hole in the floor covered by loose boards.
All things considered, it is the ideal site for the “Haunted Barn” attraction that is part of “The Haunting of Coupeville” this month.
McCastle was still feeling the effects of an unworldly accomplishment Monday as he arrived for his job at Ault Field as an air traffic controller.
Early Sunday, McCastle had just finished completing 5,804 pullups in just under 22-1/2 hours, which beat the Guinness world record for pullups in a 24-hour period.
Normally, all eyes are on Rilla Barrett when she delivers her sermon inside the sanctuary at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Oak Harbor. But Barrett had a pretty good idea that the Sunday worship service Aug. 9 was going to be anything but normal.
Deadline set for Oct. 1 to see if Fort Casey will be haunted after all
Potential visitors to Oak Harbor will get a bird’s-eye view of what the city has to offer in the coming months.
