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It wasn’t pretty but Wolves pick up win | Girls basketball

If teams got bonus points for artistic merit in basketball, the Coupeville High School girls squad would have…

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Rain stalls Madrona Way project until spring

Officials with the Town of Coupeville announced Tuesday evening that the Madrona Way project will be suspended until…

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City Council will gift itself space | Letter

Here’s a new year’s prediction: before 2020 the Oak Harbor City Council will magically, miraculously and seemingly out…

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County allocates 2-percent tourism dollars

The Coupeville Chamber of Commerce scored the lion’s share of the county’s basic 2 percent hotel-motel tax revenues…

A vertical wall of earth reveals the depth of the most recent slide near the north end of Driftwood Way. Four houses north of the slide were isolated in the event.

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Ledgewood road near Coupeville slides 8 feet, trapping four homes

A short stretch of Driftwood Way, south of Coupeville, on Monday night broke apart and slid about eight…

A five-car crash Tuesday morning killed one man and sent three more to the hospital. Highway 20 was closed for hours.

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Five-car accident kills Oak Harbor man Tuesday

An 82-year-old Oak Harbor man died Tuesday morning in a five-car accident north of Dugualla Bay.

Harvey Lasell shares a moment with his great-granddaughter

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100 reasons to smile for World War II vet

The stuffed horse that rests on Harvey Lasell’s kitchen counter was a gift he purchased for a great…

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Looking Back: Fakkema family named dairy family of the year

100 years ago A “tragic and fatal” accident occurred in Coupeville when Frederick Miller, age 5, was thrown…

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Main Street funding approved

Oak Harbor City Council last week passed without discussion a resolution to donate $40,000 to the city’s newly…

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County files status report on contested environment protections

Three of the seven environmental-protection issues in which a quasi-judicial board found Island County lacking can be resolved…

Wayne Papalski

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NAS Whidbey Sailor, Marine of year named

The top sailors and Marine of the year at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station were announced last week…

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County may hire firm to fend off insurance hikes

The Board of Island County Commissioners is considering hiring an Edmonds engineering firm to help it stave off…

Wesley Worrel

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Making his rounds: Santa finds his reward in bringing joy to kids

Wesley Worrel has the eye twinkle, a little belly and the patience for dealing with an onslaught of…