The Island County coroner has ruled that a 78-year-old Oak Harbor man who was found on the side of a Central Whidbey road Feb. 16 died from a fall from his bicycle.
Construction on Oak Harbor’s SE Pioneer Way improvement project kicked off this week with a groundbreaking ceremony attended by a surprise guest -— a bald eagle.
Island County commissioners are hiring a new administrator to oversee three small departments which will be stuck together under one umbrella.
A 44-year-old former Oak Harbor resident with a lengthy criminal history is wanted on a no-bail warrant for skipping out on community custody, court documents indicate.
The Oak Harbor Police Department emailed a “community alert” this week cautioning residents about giving financial information to people selling magazines door to door.
Voters will have their hands full this fall wading through the hefty list of elected positions up for grabs.
Months of speculation were validated this week when Oak Harbor City Councilman Scott Dudley formally announced his candidacy for the mayor’s seat in the November general election.
Nine years ago my parents drove from their home in Eugene, Oregon, to inform my husband and me they had decided to divorce after nearly half a century of marriage. It was one of the saddest experiences of our lives as a family and forever changed our dynamics.
To draw even more attention to a revitalized downtown and complement four other artworks proposed for SE Pioneer Way, the Oak Harbor Arts Commission is now considering commissioning a fifth piece near the corner of Highway 20.
Wisconsin’s Gov. Walker won the election in November, and now the voters in Wisconsin are having buyers’ remorse. He had a balanced budget until he gave big tax cuts to business, so now he has to find the money by forcing concessions on the public employees of the state. However, that is not enough; he also wants to strip them of their bargaining rights under the pretense of a budget crisis.
$4.7 billion! That figure represents the 2010 earnings of General Motors. American taxpayers, who own one-fourth of those earnings, are now being paid back for the investment President Obama made when he stepped in to rescue America’s automobile industry when it was on the verge of collapse. Remember when Rep. John Boehner and many other Republicans decried how President Obama was wasting billions of dollars by bailing out General Motors two years ago? They stated with absolute certainty that there was no way the company would ever make a profit. Oh, and they also said that President Obama is a “socialist” (oooooh, scary) for taking an ownership interest in General Motors. Soon our “socialist” president will order the divestiture of taxpayers’ interests in that company. They are wrong yet again.
Local citizens are concerned about the negative consequences of recent county budget cuts. I am too. Trash pick up in local parks is a very visible sign of the additional $2 million cut the county took for 2011, but some repercussions are less obvious.
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