Concordia gets ready for Easter Concordia Lutheran Church (Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) 590 N. Oak Harbor Road, Oak Harbor, hosts…
Historic Greenbank Farm, located in the heart of Whidbey Island, is seeking volunteers for the 2011 Loganberry Festival “Back to the Farm,” on July 23 and 24, and for a few days preceding and following the festival.
Oak Harbor Police Department The following items were selected from reports made to the Oak Harbor Police Department: Tuesday, April…
Results from the 2010 Census show that Island County is graying faster than the state or the nation as a whole.
While the county’s total population continues to grow — though not at the rate predicted by the state — the number of people under 18 years old decreased significantly over the last decade.
More than 2,000 runners and walkers will hit island roads this weekend as Oak Harbor hosts the 10th Annual Whidbey Island Marathon and accompanying activities.
Coordinator Tamra Sipes expects family members and spectators to swell the number of visitors to 5,000 for the weekend’s events.
During the latter part of the 1700s and into the first third of the 1800s there lived a British poet named Samuel Taylor Coleridge. While we could assess his lasting contributions to British literature, there is one story about this Brit that lives beyond his poetry.
It seems he got caught up, one day, in a discussion about religion and children with a house guest who believed children should not be provided formal religious education. They should, his guest reasoned, be set free to select their own religion. Coleridge, as the story is told, decided to invite his guest into the garden adjoining his house, rather than enter into a debate.
April is National Poetry Month. Celebrate with a gathering of Whidbey Island poets for a lyrical evening of readings at the Coupeville Library on Thursday, April 21.
The evening will showcase poets Lorraine Healy, Patricia Hawley and Erik Christensen, and the event is supported by the Coupeville Friends of the Library and the Whidbey Island Arts Council. Poet and novelist, Molly Larson Cook, will host and emcee an open mic as part of the program.
A new site on Navy property was added to the list of potential sites for the city of Oak Harbor’s $70-million wastewater treatment facility.
The Oak Harbor City Council adopted a resolution during its regular Tuesday meeting that directs the staff and consultant to evaluate five potential sites for the future facility.
“Commitment” would best describe Spence Purvis. The 93-year-old Freeland resident recently marked his 70th anniversary as a member of the Lions Club.
The Coupeville Recreation Hall was packed recently to celebrate Purvis’ accomplishment.
Oak Harbor police are looking for a BB gun bandit who caused thousands of dollars of damage to parked cars this month.
Police Chief Rick Wallace said someone traveled all over the city and shot car windows with a BB gun on the night of Saturday, April 2. Windows in 16 vehicles, including two at Oak Harbor Motors, were smashed or cracked. In addition, someone slashed tires on two cars in the wee hours of the morn.
An Oak Harbor sewer controversy from four years ago has bubbled to the surface once again.
Most of the residents of the small waterfront neighborhood of Driftwood Beach Addition signed a petition requesting a local improvement district, commonly known as an LID, to build a gravity sewer system to connect their homes to the city’s system.
Shorewood rallied for three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to squeeze by the visiting Oak Harbor fastpitch team 6-5 Wednesday, April 6, on a wet, sloppy day.
Clutch hitting and pitching helped Oak Harbor move into first place in the Wesco 3A baseball standings with a key 4-3 10-inning win at Mountlake Terrace Tuesday, April 5.