Coupeville and Oak Harbor prep athletes recently received letter awards and all-league recognition.
State experts who visited downtown Oak Harbor Saturday were able to answer two big questions about human remains unearthed on SE Pioneer Way late last week.
“We know that there are at least three individuals and that they are Native American,” said Allyson Brooks, director of the Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation in Olympia.
According to Brooks, the anthropologist who examined the bones determined that they don’t belong to early European settlers by examining skull fragments and the placement of bones within the excavation site.
A 48-year-old Oak Harbor woman is facing charges after allegedly leading a trooper on a car chase from Deception Pass to the city of Oak Harbor in the afternoon of June 9, court documents state.
Prosecutors charged Diana Statt in Island County Superior Court June 14 with attempting to elude a pursuing vehicle, driving under the influence and reckless endangerment.
Colton Harris-Moore, the so-called Barefoot Bandit, could be sitting in Island County jail in Coupeville within a month or so.
Harris-Moore, a 20-year-old former Camano Island resident, pleaded guilty to seven federal criminal charges Friday in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
Island County Prosecutor Greg Banks said he expects Harris-Moore to be transferred to Island County to face state charges during the estimated three-month interval between plea and sentencing in federal court.
Four weeks after voters rejected a $50 million expansion bond, somber leaders of Whidbey General Hospital are starting to plan for the future of the 40-year-old facility.
It should be harder for parents to let their kids skip vaccinations, and thanks to Legislative action, it will be so effective July 22.
Whidbey Animals’ Improvement Foundation (WAIF) found enthusiastic support in the community for its Spring Fling 2011 fundraiser. Over $100,000 was raised at the June 4 event held at Useless Bay Golf and Country Club.
We should think about the killing of Osama bin Laden, now that the celebration is over. I disagree with President Obama’s claim that “Justice was done.”
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After a busy week of field trips, field days, early morning breakfasts and farewell dances, the students at Oak Harbor and Coupeville schools are being released to three months of bliss. The 2010-2011 school year was a nail-biter for administrators as budget information slowly seeped out of the Legislature, most bringing negative news. But despite their budget woes, administrators also witnessed their students and teachers take home trophies, titles and all together thrive.
An effort to name the new park on Scenic Heights Road that connects to Oak Harbor’s waterfront trail is headed back to the drawing board.
Although Clay Doughty pitched a three-hitter, the Oak Harbor Babe Ruth baseball team fell 2-1 to the Skagit Renegades at Mount Vernon’s Sherman Anderson Field Wednesday, June 15.
A construction worker unearthed what authorities believe to be Native American remains in the midst of the SE Pioneer Way construction project in Oak Harbor Thursday.
At about 8:30 a.m., a backhoe operator was excavating the roadway in front of Mike’s Mini Mart and noticed what appeared to be bones. Work on that section of the project was stopped immediately and city officials notified police.