An Island County Superior Court judge handed a 49-year-old Oak Harbor child molester the maximum sentence at a hearing last Thursday.
Earlier this year, a jury convicted Kenneth Martin of two counts of first-degree child molestation following a short trial.
Thank you for your overwhelming support to preserve the historic Ferry House on Ebey’s Landing.
The Island County commissioners and their budget director missed an opportunity to cut about $40,000 from next year’s budget when they overlooked a deadline to change a county code. The code in question gives the commissioners and seven other elected officials a 5 percent pay increase in 2011 and all other odd-numbered years. The commissioner had planned on deleting the raises, but nobody realized until it was too late that it had to be done before candidate filing week.
As I sat in my car this week to watch flaggers stop a line of cars so the needed road construction could progress, I truly understood how tough their job is. That’s because for one summer years ago I, too, was a flagger.
If the early weeks are any indicator, Whidbey farmer’s markets are due for a banner year in spite of the cold and wet weather.
Farmers markets in Oak Harbor and Coupeville are operating each week and selling locally grown produce to North and Central Whidbey Island residents.
North Whidbey Aquatic Club swimmers scored 1,005 points to clinch second place in the team competition at the 13th Annual Wine Country Invitational Swim Meet in Toppenish June 11-13.
After nearly three years of ferry service littered with cancellations and delays, a permanent replacement ferry will start sailing in and out of Keystone Harbor by the end of summer.
Island County elected officials will get a 5 percent pay increase next year after all.
County Budget Director Elaine Marlow said she missed a deadline, so there’s no way to prevent the salary hike from kicking in.
“It’s my fault,” Marlow said this week.
North Whidbey Fire and Rescue firefighters participating in a training burn Saturday got some extra experience when the exercise ended and the real thing began.
North Whidbey firefighters got some much-needed training and the Nielsen family got rid of an old home.
Firefighters from North Whidbey Fire and Rescue burned an old, 800-square-foot farm house to the ground Saturday near Polnell Point. The home was owned by Tristy and Karl Nielsen.
Linda Lines has been struggling to find a new place to live after firefighters pulled her from a burning home last week.
Since the fire that damaged her Crockett Lake Estates home June 9, the 60-year-old disabled woman has been living in a hotel room in Oak Harbor. Thanks to the firefighters, she wasn’t injured in the blaze.
Hoping to create a big splash with the seasonal opening of the Camp Casey Conference Center pool, Seattle Pacific University will crack its doors this month and afford the public with a rare glimpse of one of the historic site’s oldest treasurers.
Oak Harbor Police Department The following items were selected from reports made to the Oak Harbor Police Department: Monday, June…