The video history of the year at Coupeville High School has been stolen.

Since the beginning of the school year, a group of students has filmed every facet of life at Coupeville High School.

They planned to use that footage to compile a video yearbook for their fellow classmates.

Unfortunately, a majority of the work was lost over spring break when someone broke into a classroom and stole the computer equipment that contained the video yearbook project.

“The stuff they took was all related to our video yearbook,” said Ken Stange, an English teacher at Coupeville High School. “The thing we lost that really mattered was seven months of work for the video yearbook.”

The break-in occurred sometime in the evening of April 5 and the early morning of April 6. The burglar gained entry by breaking a small, rectangular window on the classroom that was previously a locker bay. The person broke another window that opened into the office where the equipment was stored.

A new computer, a DVD duplicator and external hard drives were stolen from the classroom.

“They knew what they were after,” Coupeville Town Marshal Lenny Marlborough said. He noted that other computer equipment in the classroom wasn’t stolen.

He said the investigation is ongoing and no arrests have been made.

As for the video yearbook, Stange said the students have most of their raw footage. However, the work to redo the video yearbook could be slow. They will have to use older equipment that would often show error messages, forcing students to restart their machines.

He added that the editor is determined to compile a video yearbook for the school despite the thievery.

“We’re going to get something out,” Stange said.

This year marked the second year the students at Coupeville High School produced a video yearbook, which is an extension of a traditional bound yearbook.

Anybody with information about the missing equipment should call the Coupeville Marshal’s Office at 678-4461.

Reach News-Times reporter Nathan Whalen at nwhalen@whidbeynewstimes.com or call 675-6611.