Oak Harbor High School golfer Judd Ford has made a habit of second-day comebacks, but he won’t get the chance at this year’s state 3A tournament.
Island Transit expects to spend more than $1 million on a transit park, roadway safety improvements, and preserving native plant species on a project just east of Coupeville.
Located on the 3.2-acre island of property surrounded by Highway 20, and Smith Prairie and Parker roads, the project will see the construction of a bicycle-centric transit park. It will double as a gateway for Smith Prairie and a preserve for a population of relic prairie plants.
After a volunteer board spent six months researching artwork for downtown Oak Harbor, city leaders suddenly realized the preferred funding mechanism was illegal.
As a result, the Oak Harbor Arts Commission may end up covering the bulk of the tab for public art on Pioneer Way.
A 73-year-old Lynnwood man on a 2006 Honda GL 1800 trike was injured in a collision last Wednesday afternoon on Highway 20 in front of a North Whidbey convenience store.
By the end of the year, some Island County voters will likely be living in a different commissioner district. Officials in the auditor’s office and the planning department are in the process of reviewing census data to redraw the boundaries of the county’s three commissioner districts.
Coupeville’s annual Memorial Day parade and Remembrance Ceremony takes place Saturday, May 28, beginning at 11 a.m. with the parade along Main Street.
The day of patriotic events includes a parade, a brief veterans’ recognition, a free picnic and a performance by Navy Band Northwest.
Holly Chadwick has never been in a battle, but throughout her youth she was frequently exposed to its terrors and triumphs.
Her maternal grandfather had the monstrous memories of World War II carefully concealed, locked away and suppressed in the corners of his mind. Though he lived a pleasant and healthy life as a veteran, his memories never faded, and they constantly threatened to break free from their cages.
After more than a half century teaching children on Central Whidbey how to swim, a beloved program is forced to move.
The Coupeville Lions Club’s Learn to Swim program will move from its longtime home at the Admirals Cove pool to the Sierra Country Club pool located north of Fort Ebey State Park.
Walking the docks at Oak Harbor Marina may become a little more difficult in coming months.
The city council recently gave the green light to begin soliciting bids for a new security system. Once installed, access to most of the public facility would be restricted to everyone but boat owners and those who take the time to get a guest pass.
Let’s clear the air, and water. It’s time to close the door on the Dirty Fuel Age. It’s been a good run but now we know the hidden costs of overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide. Not only is human produced CO2 driving climate shifts and having dramatic impacts (the 2010 Russian heat wave and fires, Australian drought and flooding, the recent weird weather on the East Coast) and threatening agricultural production, water supplies and population/societal stability, but it is also degrading marine life via ocean acidification by helping create carbonic acid.
We who know former Harbormaster Mack Funk socially and personally were astonished at the published implications of impropriety knowing that he took over a job that had been sorely neglected and worked hard at making the needed repairs and improvements which included making the marina a pleasant and safe place for all who patronize it.
Oak Harbor City Councilman Jim Palmer has announced that he will not be seeking re-election this November and eager to fill his shoes is former councilman Paul Brewer.
A Marysville man accused of shoplifting at Oak Harbor’s Walmart could face extra time in jail because he used tinfoil to aid him in the caper, court documents indicate.