Coupeville’s annual Memorial Day Parade leads off the holiday weekend on Whidbey Island, beginning this morning, May 29, at 11 a.m. Jets from Whidbey Island Naval Air Station will provide an exciting start with a flyover.
The heat is on in Oak Harbor despite the cool, cloudy weather.
Mayor Jim Slowik and the City Council are getting some flak for considering a new $60,098.86 marketing contract with EnviroIssues, a Seattle-based consulting firm.
The Oak Harbor City Council awarded a $443,211.21 contract to C. Johnson Construction, Inc. of Oak Harbor to construct a water line along Regatta Drive and Highway 20 from 16 Avenue north to Fakkema Road.
Nearly two-dozen Whidbey Islanders met with State Rep. Barbara Bailey, R-Oak Harbor, for a coffee date Thursday morning in Coupeville.
The group commandeered a corner of Miriams Espresso Cafe for an hour-long discussion on the budget, government spending, deficits, septic systems and worker’s compensation insurance, among other topics.
A 24-year-old Marine at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station will likely be headed to prison for choking his wife, threatening her with a gun and breaking a court order by contacting her.
Hayron Garcialemus pleaded guilty in Island County Superior Court May 24 to second-degree assault with a deadly weapon, assault in the second degree by strangulation, harassment, tampering with a witness and two counts of violation of a no-contact order.
Arizona’s new immigration law is troubling on many levels. First, immigration policies are a federal governance issue. When individual states begin to enact laws that conflict and confuse our understanding of federal policies already in place, state and local law enforcers will be equally confused and thus make inappropriate enforcement decisions harming individuals and families “presumed” to be part of the new state laws.
After a weekend fundraiser, the Whidbey Camano Land Trust is $100,000 closer to saving the former Trillium woods north of Freeland.
I have a bone to pick! Just want to know why North Whidbey roads are not being mowed. I just saw the very large acreage field being mowed by Westgate and that is of no beneficial value — safety or aesthetic.
I found your story on the “Medical Revolution” on May 14 fascinating:
“The company describes its product as “drug signal therapy,” dealing with the unique photon fields of molecules. The end result, states a news release, is a therapy “that promises to transform the treatment of diseases, including those for which there are no known cures, like brain cancer.” In enables drugs to penetrate the brain-blood barrier and deliver therapeutic agents.”
Investigators are asking Whidbey Island residents to help them identify a burglar captured on low-resolution video after he broke into the VFW on Goldie Road May 16.
Detective Ed Wallace with the Island County Sheriff’s Office said a couple of young men broke into the building sometime at night and stole alcohol, candy bars and potato chips.
Bellingham Post 7 shut out the host Oak Harbor Legion AA baseball team 4-0 Tuesday, May 25, in the league-opener for both teams.