When it comes to next year’s budget, Oak Harbor School District Superintendent Rick Schulte isn’t doing any sugarcoating. On Tuesday, the school board members gave their solemn nod of approval to a staff reduction plan that Schulte said will put the district in a compromising situation.
An Oak Harbor man was arrested over Memorial Day weekend for allegedly raping a 20-month-old girl he was babysitting and causing such a severe injury that the toddler had to undergo reconstructive surgery, court documents indicate.
A 37-year-old Oak Harbor man left behind a trail of blood during a crime spree last month, court documents indicate.
Sixty years old, going on forever. At least that’s the way Don Boyer and Dur Roberson see the future of the Oak Harbor Lions Club. Between the two of them, there is more than a 100 years of membership. Though who exactly is the senior member is a matter of friendly debate.
After surviving years of moves, borrowing rooms and being cramped in tight quarters, the First Church of Christ, Scientist finally found a place of its very own in Oak Harbor. The white structure off Scenic Heights Street is inviting and cozy. With plush chairs in its library and fresh cut lilacs decorating its chapel, it’s no wonder that the church’s members have decided to call the building home for half of a century.
I don’t recall the year our family first participated in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. I do, however, remember watching our son Dan zip around the track on a small scooter alongside his best buddy Kurt. It was a much smaller event back then and there was room for such conveyances.
The salaries of Whidbey Island’s three mayors may be dissuading potential candidates from running for office.
This is a letter to the Island Transit folks, so listen up. You are in the middle of a classic business mistake, you are forgetting what business you are in. Your job is to move self-loading cargo from point A to point B safely and efficiently.
I felt I had to write regarding the story “Eagle dies after being pulled from Puget Sound.” First off I really feel the headline was misleading. This eagle did not die, but was killed (euthanized).
The Navy’s top brass has reaffirmed that Whidbey Island Naval Air Station is still in line to receive four squadrons of the new P-8A Poseidon aircraft, according to statement released today from U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen’s office.
Larsen, a Second District Democrat and a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said he recently met with Admiral Gary Roughead, chief of Naval Operations, for breakfast at the admiral’s home in Washington, D.C.
Thousands of people visited festive Coupeville Saturday to honor fallen veterans, while others attended more solemn cemetery ceremonies on Monday.
Memorial Day weekend in Coupeville was highlighted by Saturday’s annual parade going down the arterials and winding up at Town Park, where a remembrance ceremony took place.
It’ll be summer school with a lively twist when Molly Larson Cook and Skylark Writing Studio team with Whidbey Island Arts Council to present three writing workshops for adults at the Coupeville Library.
The players in a New Year’s Eve drive-by shooting and a related assault in Oak Harbor have all pleaded guilty to their respective crimes.
