What started out as a goal to lose weight three years ago has resulted in a Northwest Regional CrossFit championship and a shot at a world title for Oak Harbor’s Sam Petersen.
In 1965, at the ripe old age of 17, I checked aboard the Seaplane Tender, USS Salisbury Sound, whose homeport was Oak Harbor.
I hope this letter will inspire the island law enforcement agencies to take immediate action to enforce the excessive noise violations of the very numerous motorcycle and vehicle violators. The noise is a serious and very disturbing aggravation to all that live along the major roads.
Oak Harbor Police Department | Island Scanner
A three-car pileup near the intersection of Coupeville and Highway 20 Friday sent three people to the hospital and caused the busy road to close for about an hour.
According to Washington State Patrol Trooper Jason Nichols, Clear Lake resident Robert Richardson, 52, was southbound in a 1994 Ford Explorer at about 2:20 p.m. when he crashed into another vehicle that was stopped at the intersection of NW Broadway Street and Ebey Road.
Political signs are once again proving to be a thorn in the side of Oak Harbor Mayor Jim Slowik.
The city was stung this week when a representative from the state Public Disclosure Commission called and informed city officials that the allowance of a political sign at last week’s council meeting was a violation of state campaign laws.
Beaten and bloody, Peter Brandt lay in the darkness in the back of his own van. His hands and feet were bound with zip ties. He didn’t know where his captor was taking him and he didn’t know if was going to be killed.
Brandt didn’t panic, but entered into a dazed state.
“The curious thing about it is I felt so relaxed on the ride,” he said. “There was something in me that just went with the flow. I decided that I wasn’t going to be confrontational. I wasn’t going to try to escape.”
An elderly woman reported missing from her North Whidbey home twice sought court orders last year to protect her from her adult son. She claimed in one petition that he pointed a rifle at her head, court documents indicate.
Once archeological work begins on SE Pioneer Way and Pit Road, affected tribes may have their own experts on hand, and Oak Harbor may be footing the bill.
Allyson Brooks, director of the state Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, confirmed that a meeting is scheduled to take place in Oak Harbor Tuesday with personnel from the city, the state agency, and representatives of six different tribes.
Oak Harbor has adopted an interim ordinance that strikes a section of city code which places time limits on the posting of campaign signs.
The ordinance went before the city council at its meeting last week and was adopted by an unanimous 6-0 vote. Not present was City Councilman Jim Palmer, who was gone with a previously excused absence.
Births
Three people with extensive experience with the Greenbank Farm want more input about how it operates.
Work to give visible historic landmarks on Central Whidbey a much-needed facelift progresses.
Volunteers along with graduate students from the University of Oregon are sprucing up the Ferry House, located near the water at Ebey’s Landing, and the Kineth Water Tower, located near the southern edge of Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve.
