If a man’s life can be measured by the things people say about him after he’s gone, then Dallas Kloke did something right.
In the few weeks since his death, the sheer number of people that have come forward with stories or comments about how the 71-year-old Anacortes resident and former Oak Harbor School District teacher made a difference in their lives is astonishing — even for those who knew him best.
Comic legend and character Willie Clark claims that only words with a “k” in them are funny. Chicken is funny. Pickle is funny. Cupcake is funny. Maryland and tomatoes? Not funny. But there seem to be at least a few exceptions to his rule. Sunshine is spelled without a “k,” and the word “boys” doesn’t have one either. And yet the combination of the two is hilarious.
Neil Simon’s “Sunshine Boys” opens at the Whidbey Playhouse Thursday, Oct. 14.
The Whidbey News-Times staff had another successful year at the annual Washington Better Newspaper Contest sponsored by the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association.
The awards were announced Oct. 1 at the 123rd annual WNPA Convention. Whidbey News-Times staff members in editorial, advertising and art departments took home 13 awards.
The Board of Island County Commissioners, long dominated by Republicans, has been a strange place these last couple of years with Democrats holding all three positions.
A horse named Missy may help save 4-H in Island County.
Amidst the melancholia of budget distress stories, North Whidbey resident Jerry Pfannenstiel and his 10-year-old daughter, Cassandra, made a heartwarming gesture to preserve a program that’s very important to the family. They decided to sell one of the family’s horses and donate the proceeds to the popular youth program.
Efforts to convince the Island County commissioners to rescind a $1-million grant in the hopes or crippling a major Oak Harbor street project are not looking good.
The board met this week, Oct. 3, to discuss the concerns about the SE Pioneer Way Improvement Project brought forward in August by a group of merchants, business leaders, and Oak Harbor City Councilman Scott Dudley.
A ray of good news broke through the gloom of impending layoffs and budget woes in the Island County commissioners’ final budget hearing Thursday afternoon.
The Washington State Department of Transportation announced Friday afternoon that the inaugural sailing of the 64-car Chetzemoka will take place Sunday, Nov. 14 from the Coupeville ferry terminal at Keystone Harbor.
It’s not uncommon for someone who works in a government office to challenge his or her boss in an election. After all, a staff member would have an insider’s view of how the elected official is doing and how things are running in the office.
Inevitably, a challenge from within causes hard feeling and division within the office as office politics gives way to electoral politics.
Years of annual rate hikes for three of Oak Harbor’s four utilities were approved this week with barely a peep from the public.
Two Oak Harbor men who sold electronics stolen from boats on the eBay website were recently sent to jail.
It is with utter disgust that I write this letter. Jordyn Weichert and Samantha Bowling face a maximum of 10 1/2 years in prison for killing three people while driving under the influence? When is this country going to get its act together and start handing down sentences that are commiserate with the crime committed?
Island Scanner: Oak Harbor Police Department