Josh Hauser is no stranger to the stresses that an increasingly digital world poses to her downtown Langley bookstore.
After Christine Cribb turned the lights on inside the Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce visitors center one night last fall, another light bulb went off inside her head.
Even on his 90th birthday, Dick Anable wasn’t spared any teasing by his wife.
Anable was sitting on his living room couch, holding a phone to his ear when the conversation turned to a story about his military service.
As Robert Glein realized he could no longer care for his heritage garden on his property in Marysville the way he had grown accustomed, he wanted to be sure they would be preserved and enjoyed by others after he was gone.
Millie Fonda recently started walking the wooded trails again near Engle Road in Coupeville and found new interpretive signs to be a welcome surprise.
As the sheftalia sausages sizzled amid flames that reached as high as a foot from the grille, Mark Laska turned to Scott Fraser and broke the bad news.
Oak Harbor’s 42nd St. Patrick’s Day parade left plenty of smiles on the faces of participants and spectators alike Tuesday.
Oak Harbor’s 42nd St. Patrick’s Day parade left plenty of smiles on the faces of participants and spectators alike Tuesday.
If you don’t like the bright blue base of Oak Harbor’s new kraken sculpture, don’t worry about hurting the artist’s feelings.
Lance Gibbon has seen children as young as preschool handling a parent’s smartphone in their tiny hands.
Mary Arthur carefully looks over the cuts made by Dylan Crogan, then makes a point.
Dutch Strehle can already hear the laughs. For nearly a quarter of a century, he’s remained low-key as the figure behind one of Oak Harbor’s most colorful parades.
The cottage still stands where Earle Darst was born in 1919. It’s across the street and down the road from a weathered, century-old building with crumbling wood siding that once housed the general store and post office where his parents met.
