After being named the best new team at last year’s regional competition, Coupeville High School’s Science Olympiad participants are striving…
“Why did you call our home, not identify yourself, then ask for my husband by his first name as if you know him personally?” I asked the woman on the other end of the phone.
It was Wednesday evening, we were just getting dinner on the table, and her tactics annoyed me. I understood she had a job to do, but our inability to get caller ID on our phone line makes such unsolicited calls increasingly intrusive and irritating. I chose to be polite to her, mind you, but I was direct and gave voice to my views as I questioned the telemarketer’s methods.
Central Whidbey Fire and Rescue is taking a close look at its future, and among the topics under discussion are the expansion of one station, the closing of another, new engines and a levy lid lift.
Friday dawned clear, bright, and a chilling 16 degrees in Oak Harbor, officially putting an end to a late-winter storm that brought parts of the island to a standstill.
A member of a famed World War II parachute company was peppered with questions Thursday afternoon by a curious and welcoming group of Coupeville High School juniors.
Tucked away off Bridle Trail Lane in Oak Harbor, past a bat sanctuary and through a covering of trees, lives a family of what King Henry VIII deemed the tastiest lambs in all the world. But fear not for the fuzzy infants’ safety because they are extremely well-protected by two guard llamas, and well, King Henry is dead.
Island County commissioners sided with 27 county sheriffs in the state, including Island County Sheriff Mark Brown, in sending a letter to state lawmakers urging support for “take back your meds” bills.
It’s common for commissioners to send such a letter supporting bills, programs or grant applications, but this one spawned the first disagreement in years over an official letter from the board.
Whidbey Island Naval Air Station may yet get its share of the new P-8A Poseidon aircraft, the long-awaited replacement for the P-3C Orion sub-hunters.
According to a Navy Office of Information spokesman at the Pentagon, the airbase has been pushed back to third in line to receive the new aircraft, and a study is under way to determine whether to permanently staff just two bases with Poseidons rather than three.
But it’s still entirely possible that NAS Whidbey will get its four P-8 squadrons (24 total airplanes) as planned.
The sport requires its athletes to have not just one, but two types of medical insurance. Its players wear helmets, knee pads, elbow pads, tailbone pads and mouth guards and are known by tough alter egos. Its fans must be 18 or older to sit in the front row, which players call “suicide seating,” because, well, “they might get a girl thrown into them.” And yet the sport’s participants revel in the brutality of it all.
With the majority of the northern U.S. currently buried under snow, Whidbey Island residents are bracing for a couple of inches of the white stuff in the coming days.
The simple, sad fact is that there’s too many unwanted dogs and cats on Whidbey Island.
While Whidbey Animals’ Improvement Foundation takes care of orphan pets in shelters where they’re safe from euthanasia — unless they’re dangerous or have a fatal injury or disease — it’s not a happy life for animals to be caged in an environment of stress, crowding and bad odors.
Living up to its No. 1 ranking coming into the tournament, the Oak Harbor High School bowling team won the 46th Annual Washington State Bowling Proprietors’ Association state championship this weekend at Spokane’s Lilac Lanes.
A 20-year-old horse that’s suffered through hardship and adversity needs a new home to live out the rest of her life.
Island County Animal Control Officer Carol Barnes explained that the quarter horse was “badly neglected” by a Whidbey Island resident and was taken away from her by the courts.