After months of controversy and an opinion from Washington’s top lawyer that says Oak Harbor sub-committee policies do not adhere to the Open Public Meetings Act, city officials last week unveiled changes that will bring the rules into compliance.
State lawmakers are considering a set of bills that would drastically change the way counties, cities and towns alert the community about what they’re up to.
The town of Coupeville will spend several thousand dollars this spring on new trees that will be planted in parks and alongside two streets.
A 26-year-old Oak Harbor man is going to prison for raping a grade-school girl he babysat in 2007, court documents indicate.
This weekend, Coupeville High School boys will put themselves in the spotlight to have their intelligence, physiques, appearances and abilities scrutinized. And with any success, they’ll draw lots of dollar bills from the pockets of onlookers.
Oak Harbor Police Dept. The following items were selected from reports made to the Oak Harbor Police Department: Sunday, Jan….
State legislators are looking for ways to pare down a budget deficit projected to be $4.6 billion in 2011–13, and ease recessionary burdens on local governments too.
But not all their ideas are good ones. SB5360 and HB1478 would allow cities and counties to place public notices on their websites instead of publishing them in their local newspapers. The idea is to save local governments the cost of publishing those notices in print.
As a photograph ages, its edges yellow, its corners curl and its crisp lines begin to fade. The memory captured within its frame begins to slip away and the mind loses sight of its details.
Often the keepers of history are packed in boxes and hidden in attics only to have their purpose stripped away.
But not in Trudy Sundberg’s home.
Make it four in a row.
Oak Harbor resident Shawna Alzina is 24 years old and still pines for independence.
When Shawna was 3 years old, she had a bi-lateral knee amputation on both of her legs due to complications from kyphosis and scoliosis, which both involve harmful curvatures of the spine. But the amputation was only the beginning of many medical problems to come.
Shawna has had 30 major and minor surgeries throughout her life with 28 occurring before she was 8 years old. She had two major operations to repair and augment her bladder, an open heart surgery to fix holes in her heart, two spinal fusions and a surgery to remove one of her kidneys which was retaining water.
The alleged theft of pornographic magazines and movies from an Oak Harbor convenience store led to a felony drug charge for a 20-year-old homeless man, court documents indicate.
Prosecutors charged Gary England in Island County Superior Court Jan. 11 with possession of heroin, possession of a dangerous weapon and theft in the third degree.
Inmates at Oak Harbor’s lock up now have a get-out-of-jail-free card.
The city launched a pilot program this month that will allow some inmates to spend their nights in the comfort of their own homes instead of behind bars.
The price for their freedom? Spending their daylight hours performing community service jobs around town.
A 44-year-old South Whidbey man accused of child molestation turned himself into the Island County jail after spending a few weeks on the lam, according to the Island County Sheriff’s Office.
Investigators put out a press release last Friday asking for the public’s help in locating Michael S. Angelo, who’s also known as Michael Wayne Webb. AS a result, media attention wise widespread throughout the Puget Sound area.