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Diane Sullivan and Karen Mueller are shown together at Wind & Tide Bookshop in downtown Oak Harbor. After more than two decades of ownership

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New chapter begins for Wind & Tide

With all great stories, one chapter closes and another one opens.

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Whidbey News-Times’ gift guide heads home | Biz Notes

SOUND PUBLISHING will reach the entire island Nov. 23 and Nov. 26 with the Whidbey News-Times’ Holiday Gift…

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Italian restaurant opens in Oak Harbor | Biz Notes

CAFE BELLA is having a ribbon cutting and open house on Friday, Nov. 18, at 4:30 p.m. Cafe…

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Waste Wise offers holiday campaign | Biz Notes

WASTE WISE is offering a holiday campaign for businesses. The organization will provide free advertising for stores that…

Giovanni Strain recently opened The Consignment Studio nearly two years after his former business

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Oak Harbor entrepreneur dusts up another business

Nearly two years after the Feather Duster closed, an Oak Harbor resident is having another go at running…

With spaces in Maple Leaf Cemetry’s first columbarium (background) almost sold out

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Whidbey cemeteries’ columbaria create room

Sunnyside Cemetery in Coupeville erected its first columbarium in October while Maple Leaf Cemetery in Oak Harbor added…

Oak Harbor Marina Harbormaster Chris Sublet speaks with Terica Taylor on a recent tour of the marina. Taylor owns Deception Pass Tours and is considering starting a gray-whale watching business in Oak Harbor.

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Whale tours could draw thousands to Oak Harbor

ak Harbor may soon be home to a whale-watching business that could draw about 2,000 tourists per season.…

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Sound Publishing to buy Clallam County newspapers

Sequim based Olympic View Publishing Company today announces the sale of the company to Sound Publishing, a community…

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Ag board hunts for members

The Northwest Agriculture Business Center is accepting applications for positions on its board of directors. A non-profit business…

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Grange aims to preserve farming

Small-scale growing featured at former pheasant farm Penn Cove Grange will be hosting the Small Agriculture Producer Caucus…

Port of South Whidbey Commissioner Geoff Tapert addresses the Oak Harbor City Council last week on a plan that could land an expansion of Freeland's Nichols Brothers Boat Builders on the Seaplane Base.

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South Whidbey port may help Oak Harbor land boat builder

Freeland’s Nichols Brothers Boat Builders is finding plenty of friends this year as yet another public agency is…

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Whidbey General workers upset as jobs outsourced | Corrected

Ten employees at Whidbey General Hospital are being outsourced this fall in a move that’s estimated to save…

A crowd watches as a model cruises the catwalk in front of La Moda Rocks on SE Pioneer Way in Oak Harbor. The fashion show was put on in conjunction with First Friday

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Fashion succeeds in drawing folks downtown

It may have lacked some of the glamour and sparkle of international fashion shows in New York, London…