Next to my letter to the editor, I saw the Sound Off opinion written by Island County Sheriff Mark Brown, and I just wanted to say “thank you for writing it.”
It appears not all people give thought to one of the biggest investments they will make. And be stuck with for years to come.
Well, it appears common sense went out the window for this year’s celebration, and by that I mean who would put a carnival and vendors in a park next to a huge hole in the ground and Mount Oak Harbor in the parking lot?
I have to weigh in on the issue of the Park/Talman sculpture being demolished by the hospital. Mikal, the spelling he preferred, and I were very good friends since 1975.
Mari Anderson’s letter to the editor, “Believes NAS Whidbey should go back on list,” was so wide off the mark that an analogy of her letter would be, “Titanic had successful maiden voyage.”
After a year of political name-calling and clever ads and sound bytes, I’ve given up on candidates’ promises and now look at their voting records.
Editor,
After reading week after week the incessant whining of COER writers who constantly blame the Navy for the result of their poor real estate choices, I am able to find some humor in the Whidbey News-Times in the form of the Island Scanner column.
Editor,
“The economic well-being blood of Oak Harbor and surrounding communities was, and is still, dependent on the Navy base.”
Editor,
A recent letter to the editor regarding upcoming appointments to the Supreme Court reminded me of the days I taught civics or American government.
Twenty-five year ago, in June 1991, the Base Closure Commission made the unanimous decision to remove NAS Whidbey from the list of bases to be closed.
Come on, folks, does taking down a crumbling, rusty sculpture at the hospital really warrant a front page article and an editorial?
I may not be caught up on all the latest concerning the funds obtained when the city property was logged, but I was wondering if there might be some consideration to using some or all of those funds to repair the streets of Oak Harbor.
In his June 15 letter, Ted Brown, Energy and Environmental Public Affairs Officer, Fleet Forces Command, Norfolk, Va., asserted that Growlers are quieter than Prowlers.
Not sure what data he was using. Maybe those gentile, southern-boy, Norfolk Growlers speak softer than our Washington Growlers?