It’s ironic that while Oak Harbor and Island County are revisiting their Shoreline Management Master Program to assure our shorelines aren’t further ruined, the city is embarking on a sewer plant siting process that includes two potential locations smack dab in the middle of the shoreline.
Things are looking up for Oak Harbor resident Nancy Dehn, thanks to volunteers from the Home Depot and many anonymous Good Samaritans.
Three varsity members return for an Oak Harbor High School girls golf team that finished second in the district tournament last year.
First-year coach Jeff Pryor has a solid foundation on which to build this year’s Oak Harbor High School boys golf team, senior Judd Ford, a three-time state-tournament qualifier.
Senior Rebecca Armstrong highlights a group of five returning letter winners for the Coupeville High School fastpitch team.
A blend of seven lettermen and what coach Brian Thompson calls the “best crop of freshman in eight or nine years” form the heart of this year’s Oak Harbor High School boys soccer team.
If there is strength in numbers, look out for the Oak Harbor High School track teams.
The Oak Harbor High School girls tennis team will lean on seniors Cady O’Dell and Clarissa Abadesco heading into the 2011 season.
The Coupeville High School girls tennis team hopes to find luck with the number 13.
After years of kicking around the bottom half of the Wesco standings, this may be the year the Oak Harbor High School baseball team challenges for a league title.
There is young, and then there is extremely young.
Here’s a rundown on some of the sports-related community events taking place in the North Whidbey area.
There’s probably no one who had more influence over how Oak Harbor grew than Arnold Freund.
Freund, whose friends knew him as “Arnie,” was a descendent of Whidbey pioneers, a farmer and then a no-nonsense sheriff before becoming an unlikely, but astute land magnate in Oak Harbor. Today, much of the commercial business on the south end of the city is built on Freund land.