Oak Harbor’s time-honored insurance and real estate go-to, Koetje Agency, is merge with Whitfield’s United Insurance Agencies, Inc., this month.
The decision wasn’t easy, said Koetje Agency’s current owner Bruce Neil, Jr., son-in-law of Hank Koetje, founder of the locally famed insurance and real estate business that’s served the Oak Harbor community for 50 years.
Two new faces are busy scooping ice cream behind the counter of an iconic Coupeville shop.
Longtime owners Karen and Paul Whelan decided to sell Kapaws Iskreme to Joel and Lorene Norris, who took over the shop Oct. 1.
“The shoes are huge to fill,” Joel Norris said as he opened up his Front Street shop Tuesday morning.
Hundreds of motorcycles will rumble through Whidbey Island this weekend on their way to Anacortes for the Oyster Run, the largest motorcycle run in the Pacific Northwest.
Longtime stylist Phyllis Cook, owner of P S Hair Design, has hung up her apron and moved to Wyoming to be closer to her daughter, Autumn.
The transition wasn’t be easy for the Coupeville native. And many of her clients are taking the news hard.
Cook and her many clients formed strong bonds during the hair stylists’ 31-year career.
As of Friday morning there isn’t a store in Coupeville where movie-goers can rent a video.
Videoville, located on South Main Street, is selling its collection in preparation of closing at the end of the month.
Ultra-clean living has paid off for Daily Grind owner Tammie DeRosa in terms of customer and spousal satisfaction.
Another perfect score after an inspection by the county health department sent two of her customers scurrying up to the Whidbey News-Times to announce the accomplishment.
No other burger tastes quite the same once the palate absorbs your hometown’s particular blend of beef and special sauce.
For a while that was Kow Korner, the bygone island drive-in, where the burgers cost only a dollar before they closed. Filling that hamburger craving today has left people to pick between national chains such as McDonald’s or Burger King; until now.
Call it Wedding Island instead of Whidbey Island on Sunday, June 19.
On that date “Our Wedding Day,” will be presented at Hummingbird Farm, with sponsorship by area businesses as well as the Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce, Central Whidbey Chamber of Commerce and the Island County Economic Development Council.
A lost industry that was once a hallmark of Whidbey Island life is poised to make a return, albeit on a smaller scale.
Freeland resident Vicky Brown is hoping to have her creamery operational by August. The dairy, known as The Little Brown Farm, will sell goat and sheep cheese.
Whidbey Island hospitality is known near and far thanks to the volunteers who have staffed the Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce information booth at Deception Pass for more than a decade.
CURVES, a fitness club exclusively for women, has relocated to 31780 Suite 1A, Highway 20, Oak Harbor, near Applebee’s. It’s…
All four Whidbey Island Windermere offices were closed Friday, June 19, for Community Service Day, as they do the third week in June every year.
The Oak Harbor office helped build dreams while siding and landscaping a Habitat for Humanity house.
At the Skagit/Island Counties Builders Association monthly dinner meeting June 15, the association’s annual awards were presented.
The SICBA 2008 Builder of the Year award was presented to Scott Yonkman of Yonkman Construction, Inc.
