The final numbers aren’t in yet, but organizers of this year’s Island County Fair say the big event in Langley surpassed last year’s fair from the midway and beyond.
Mark Lenocker pulled the first of three lids off a septic mound system at a North Whidbey home Wednesday afternoon and immediately knew something was wrong. A solid mass of shiny-brown sewage was at the top, nearly overflowing from the underground tank.
The “sexting” policy ready for adoption by the Oak Harbor School District will also give administrators more authority to stop “cyberbullying.”
At the weekly Coupeville Lions meeting on Aug. 18, Mayor Nancy Conard was awarded the Lions Melvin Jones Fellowship by Past International Director Dur Roberson
First, print in the Whidbey News-Times in organizational chart format, the breakdown of every department in the county, then the position descriptions along with the position’s hourly pay or salary or contract wage and yearly totals for that position.
Janet Enzmann, one of Coupeville’s valued volunteers, passed away Monday, Aug 16. She was 84. Enzmann was chairman of Friends of Coupeville Library, archivist and librarian with the Island County Museum and volunteer with the Coupeville Lion’s Club.
One Oak Harbor city councilman’s attempts to scuttle the controversial Pioneer Way improvement plan may have paid off as state regulators are now asking questions about how the city is planning to pay for certain elements of the project.
The Island County Fair in Langley hits on all eight cylinders this weekend with a plethora of events planned for residents.
The Island County sheriff has come out fighting in response to voters’ overwhelming rejection of Proposition 1 in Tuesday’s primary, asking that county commissioners eliminate all funding for programs not specifically required by law.
he Aug. 17 primary election was a smashing success for Republicans in Island County and may signal a conservative takeover of a number of county offices in the upcoming general election.
The Island County Republican Party campaigned against Proposition 1, the county’s proposed property tax levy lid lift, with overwhelming success. The measure is failing with 71 percent of the votes against it.
While it may seem unlikely, the Oak Harbor Garden Club has managed to make downtown’s Hal Ramaley Park even lovelier.
The park is already beautiful, thanks to the countless hours club members have spent over the past 10 years maintaining its colorful gardens. But to complete the picture, the club has spent the past year working to acquire a 16-foot by 16-foot gazebo to install as the park’s centerpiece.
How delightful that in the very same month that the unemployment rate began to go up again, the Democrats started pointing fingers about who “drove the car into a ditch.”
An Island County deputy who crashed a motorcycle while he was off duty last month is under investigation for allegedly driving under the influence.