Two door-to-door magazine salesmen accused of burglarizing an Oak Harbor home Feb. 22 are facing charges in Island County Superior…
A Central Whidbey couple who care for many unwanted and disabled animals are in danger of becoming homeless because they say they were swindled out of tens of thousands of dollars by former Freeland attorney Peter Moote.
Moote is currently under investigation by the FBI and the Island County Sheriff’s Office for allegedly stealing millions of dollars from clients over the years, according to the sheriff’s office. He resigned from the Washington Bar Association in lieu of disbarment last November after being accused of stealing from clients.
A gray whale known as Dubnuk drew a steady crowd of looky-loos and rubber-neckers at the end of Penn Cove Sunday.
For much of the afternoon, the estimated 35-foot-long, 30-ton behemoth was seen trolling back and forth along the shoreline between Grassers Lagoon and the long dock owned by Penn Cove Shellfish. Surfacing every few minutes for air, the rare spectacle lured a seemingly endless stream of a passing motorists.
At one point, the section of Highway 20 was lined with enough observers and parked cars that police officers were called out to direct traffic.
After sifting through 25 applications that resulted from a nationwide search, the commissioners for North Whidbey Fire and Rescue opted for someone local to fill its vacant training officer position.
The Oak Harbor High School golf, swimming and debate programs appear, for now, to have escaped the school district budget committee’s whittling knife.
In the final formal meeting of the budget committee Monday, the group listened to 25 of some 200 members of a civil standing-room-only crowd speak about the merits of the programs on the chopping block.
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Day 3 of our new war with Libya and the media has repeated at least two lies the administration has provided. Gaddafi did not use his war planes to bomb insurgents, and the rebels don’t want our arms. Perhaps some of them do, they are disorganized. But Feb. 17, Clinton asked if they wanted our arms and they said, “no.” They didn’t want to be beholding to the U.S.
A hiccup in the bond market that caused Oak Harbor government to take out an emergency loan and alter its long-range plans for funding the marina dredging project may actually have been a blessing in disguise.
By waiting for the market to improve, and moving forward with a different type of bond than originally planned, the city was able to secure an interest rate of 4.03 percent, far below the original 5.6 percent weighted average. Over the next two decades, that tallies up to a savings of about $700,000 on the $2.56 million bonds.
Electronic Attack squadron VAQ-131 “Lancers” arrives back at Whidbey Island this week after completing a 6-month deployment on the USS Abraham Lincoln supporting operations in the North Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf and maritime security operations for the 7th Fleet.
A backed up sewer main in Coupeville caused problems for at least one business and became a disruption for traffic this week.
The problem appears to have begun late Wednesday evening. Tyee Restaurant and Motel manager MaryAnne Bailey got a call that a grassy area behind the motel next to the trailer park was flooding. The pooling water turned out to be sewage.
Some of Whidbey’s most beloved transient residents are beginning to make their spring debut.
When Whidbey Island officials have concerns, they go to the top.
Island County Commissioner Angie Homola and a contingent of Oak Harbor officials went on separate trips to Washington D.C. in the past couple of weeks and met with some of the most important people at the Pentagon, as well as the top elected officials from Washington State.
The main topic of discussion was the siting of the new P-8A Poseidon aircraft. Whidbey officials became alarmed after hearing reports that the aircraft may not be coming to Whidbey Island Naval Air Station as originally planned.
Oak Harbor’s business community got its first in-depth look at Whidbey General Hospital’s proposal for a $50 million expansion this week.
Hospital CEO Tom Tomasino gave a 30-minute presentation on the need for the new 40-room addition at the Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce’s monthly luncheon Thursday. But with just three questions from a crowd that easily numbered over 100 people, it’s difficult to tell just how the businessmen and women feel about one of the biggest bond proposals ever to go before Island County voters.