Hard work, posh accommodations and one of the best views in town have earned two Coupeville innkeepers national recognition.
Dave and Dianne Binder’s bed and breakfast on North Main Street, the Anchorage Inn, has been named one of the 10 best in the country.
A 30-year-old Navy man is accused of assaulting his wife after she tried to prevent him from disciplining their young children, court documents indicate.
It’s August in 1980 and rookie Oak Harbor cop Sean Magorrian is on patrol.
He’s alone because the city’s population of about 9,000 doesn’t yet warrant more than a single officer on duty at a time. His bulletproof vest is hot and extremely heavy, as it is one of the earliest versions, and his car is devoid of electronics with the exception of a radio.
For businesses and individuals everywhere, the challenge of the last few years has been finding a way to do more with less, and it’s no different for schools. The Coupeville and Oak Harbor school districts are feeling the weight of an ever-expanding list of state requirements as their funding continues to dwindle.
A city councilman who is considering a run for mayor next year may have put Oak Harbor in a tricky legal position should pending personnel issues land the city in court.
Island Scanner: Oak Harbor Police Department
A bookkeeper’s theft nearly caused the American Legion in Oak Harbor to go under after 81 years of existence.
Members of Island County’s largest union are upset that county officials missed a deadline to give notice that the union wanted out of a health insurance pool, which the union said could have saved the county hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
Ben Newman offered a challenge to Safeway employees — raise a cool grand to help in the fight against breast cancer in one day and he’d shave his head.
There’s bad news and worse news for senior citizens. The bad is that it looks like for the second year in a row you won’t be getting an increase in your Social Security check even though food and medical prices are rising rapidly. The worse news is the people who brought us the distressing tech bubble in 2000 and the disastrous housing bubble in 2007 are now investing their money in commodities, such as gold, silver and Cheerios. You already can’t afford gold or silver; it’s only a matter of time before you can’t afford Cheerios or anything else made of food, because food parts such as wheat, barley and milk are also commodities.
This is it! In less than a month you have the opportunity to begin to change our country for the better. All it takes is for you to pledge to yourself that you will vote and not vote for any incumbent in the state or federal elections. Give no consideration to personality, party, endorsements or the amount of money a candidate spends on trying to buy your vote.
Being a county commissioner is not a glamorous job. It’s a lot of work if you want to do it right. You’re signing numerous contracts for everything from drainage ditches to mental health services, bargaining with unions, administering a $65 million budget and trying to lay tracks for the future, all while keeping citizens informed, involved and not after your throat.
A nasty January windstorm that damaged boats in Oak Harbor Marina may have blown out more than nine months ago, but it’s still whipping up trouble for the city.
Several weeks ago, the city received its second claim for damages from the Jan. 18 windstorm that caused a portion of “C” dock’s roof to collapse. The sheet metal landed on two boats, one belonging to Langley resident Andrew Loehr and the other to Oak Harbor resident Dennis Behrman.