The Oak Harbor High School cheer squad will feature two teams this fall.
Starting a new season and entering a new division should help erase some of the negatives from last year for the Oak Harbor High School girls soccer team.
On the Oak Harbor Street resurfacing project, it would be interesting to learn why, after mistakes forced the crew to dig up the concrete sidewalk on the west side, we wound up with a cheap-looking black asphalt sidewalk that doesn’t match anything. Who’s responsible for that, and how did it happen?
Now that Proposition 1 has been rejected, the hard work begins. Will department budgets be cut across the board? Or will some (such as the Sheriff’s Department) be given priority?
A 20-home development in Coupeville remains controversial several years after it was given the go-ahead by town planners. But it shouldn’t be attracting so much criticism at this late stage of the game, particularly in light of the present economy.
Two men were unharmed after spending Friday night adrift in a boat on Saratoga Passage.
A 38-year-old Oak Harbor man who was caught red-handed burglarizing a home received the maximum prison sentence after a brief trial.
Confused and frustrated over a lack of authority, and amidst threats of legal action by incensed neighbors, the Coupeville Design Review Board Tuesday only reluctantly approved elements of a new 20-home subdivision.
Investigators are looking at a number of missing persons cases in the Puget Sound region, including the high-profile disappearance of a Silverdale woman, to find a possible match with a human foot that washed up on the east side of Central Whidbey Island near Greenbank last Friday.
A cantankerous Central Whidbey woman will go to jail Tuesday after losing a dispute involving her neighbors, county officials and Puget Sound Energy.
After more than eight years of trying, Coupeville’s effort to find a buyer that will preserve the old fire hall on Alexander Street is now closer than ever to completion.
Another former altar boy has come forward to accuse a now-defrocked Oak Harbor priest of sexually abusing him 30 years ago.
There was a successful intervention in the Island County commissioners’ meeting Monday afternoon. South Whidbey attorney Douglas Kelly, on behalf of Central Whidbey couple James Moore and Sue Symons, filed a motion to intervene in Paula Spina’s closed record appeal hearing scheduled to go before the commissioners Oct. 4.