It was early July, and 16-year-old Rachel Jappert of Oak Harbor had just spent six days traveling Ecuador. There she…
It was a little after 7 p.m. and blocks away from the stadium, there were hardly any signs of life. Only the perpetual glare of convenience store lights and late parents shuffling their children to the ticket lines. Houses were dark and vacant.
Inside Wildcat Memorial Stadium, there was a burning anticipation. The cheerleaders led the crowd in rally cries, which were audible from across town.
The third-graders grouped around a circle-shaped piece of string on the lawn of Broad View Elementary. Fashioned in pioneer duds…
Whidbey Island’s Linda Fauth, a longtime animal advocate and devoted Whidbey Animal Improvement Foundation volunteer, is in the running for…
While I was always labeled a good reader by my elementary school teachers, I did not choose to read for…
“Remember when we moved into our first house?” I inquired of my husband this week, “And the neighbor kids talked…
Oak Harbor High School is low on chaperones for this year’s homecoming dance, and no chaperones means no dancing. At…
What could be more fun than paddling from the Oak Harbor Marina to Penn Cove on a warm Saturday morning…
Jeff Robinson sped down Resort Road at 46 miles per hour. His 100-mile bike ride began at 7:30 a.m. Saturday,…
The Island County Historical Society Museum is going back in time to the Ice Age for Mammoth Day Saturday, Oct….
“Time for lunch … in a cup!” the ship’s computer announced. Children, specifically the young ones, sat wide-eyed in the…
