Rumors that the P-3 Orion patrol squadrons along with several thousand jobs will taken way from Whidbey Island Naval Air Station give new impetus to an annual spring travel ritual undertaken by Oak Harbor officials.
Coupeville High School sophomore Aly DeHay has been deemed a local celebrity by fellow students in her advanced art class. Her stop-motion video, which was done for a homework assignment, generated nearly 36,000 views on YouTube in about a month and garnered the attention of two West Coast radio stations.
A bipartisan group of state legislators introduced a series of bills this week aimed at making the beleaguered state ferry system more efficient.
Legislators hope the bills, which are currently in various state House and Senate committees, will address the public’s concerns about how the state ferry system handles its resources.
Oak Harbor sub-committee policies that violate state public meeting laws will be the topic of a special open workshop this week.
The meeting, to be held Thursday at 6 p.m. at City Hall, will be the first time the city council has met to discuss in detail an opinion released by the state Office of the Attorney General more than a month ago regarding sub-committee rules.
Whidbey Island’s own Saratoga Chamber Orchestra is pleased to announce “UFF DA! A Scandinavian Spectacular,” presented Monday, Feb. 14 in Oak Harbor and Feb. 15 in Langley.
Island Transit will not borrow $22.4 million from an out-of-state lending firm to build a new facility at its site just south of Coupeville.
Act I: “So much for Historical Philadelphia, so much for Industrial. Now, Gentle Reader, consider an entire section of American Society which, closely following the English tradition, lives…”
Lives on what really? Well, it thrives on scandal. Survives on gossip. Walks on eggshells. But lives? This branch of American society simply lives in luxury.
Meet the Lord family. This is their life, and this is their story: The Philadelphia Story.
Island Scanner: Oak Harbor Police Department
Upon reading Brian Martin’s letter entitled “Reverse the con job by Coupeville,” dated Jan. 14, I was immediately struck by a few things I found a bit hard to accept.
It didn’t bring offices to a complete standstill, but a catastrophic failure of Island County government’s email server disrupted work for nearly a week and could mean the loss of voluminous data.
Wildcat company, the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, competed in the first drill meet of the season on Saturday, Jan. 15, and made an impact on all the other units in the Olympic Division of the Northwest Drill and Rifle Conference.
Despite years of work to streamline design regulations within Ebey’s Landing National Historic Reserve, there are a number of people who are still critical of the proposal.
King’s outscored the Coupeville High School boys basketball team 16-4 in the fourth quarter to upend the host Wolves 56-36 Friday, Jan. 21.