Business people and investors from Whidbey Island are behind the development of revolutionary advancements that promise to make the treatment of cancer and other diseases more effective while reducing or eliminating side effects associated with current treatments.
The waters of Penn Cove will be filled with protesters Saturday, May 15, as the worldwide effort to “Free Lolita” continues.
Every year, paddlers from across the region descend on the site where 45 Southern Resident orcas were captured in the 1970s.
Of the 45 whales removed, Lolita is the only survivor. She performs at the Miami Seaquarium, confined in what is reportedly one of the smallest whale tanks in North America.
A speedy report of a broken wastewater treatment discharge pipe by an Oak Harbor resident and quick action by the city kept a stretch of Windjammer Park shoreline open over the weekend.
The North Whidbey Fire and Rescue Board of Commissioners voted to “surplus” the San de Fuca Station above Penn Cove on Tuesday evening.
The action allows North Whidbey Fire and Rescue to sell the property, appraised for $133,000, said Fire Chief Marv Koorn.
It appears likely that Island County officials will ask residents to vote on whether to raise their own taxes this fall to fill a projected shortfall of $1.2 million next year.
A convicted sex offender moved to W. Whidbey Avenue in Oak Harbor without notifying local law enforcement, which was a violation of sex offender registration requirements.
Timothy Deffendoll-Ralph, 20, pleaded guilty in Island County Superior Court May 10 to a single count of failure to register as a sex offender.
A 37-year-old Oak Harbor man with a history of domestic violence could end up in prison if convicted of the latest charge against him, court documents indicate.
Shortly after 8 p.m. Thursday, Arlys Abrahamse’s car became stuck on a Scenic Heights driveway on the outskirts of Oak Harbor. In an attempt to free the vehicle, she hit the accelerator.
Scott Fraser was still on the road when his award-winning culinary squad returned to Oak Harbor last week.
An Oak Harbor restaurant owner and team mentor, Fraser drove almost 4,000 miles to bring the team’s equipment to, and back from, the national competition in Kansas.
A big thank you to Larry and the folks at the Goose Grocery Store and Goosefoot for putting on a food and donation drive to benefit WAIF. Along with monetary donations over 61 bags where filled with dog and cat food. The goal was to fill the van and boy did we.
I am so glad to see that the Obama Administration’s strategy of closely monitoring the Tea Party threat while hoping the Jihadi terrorists are too incompetent to actually pull off whatever they are planning is still paying off.
Recently, there seems to be a spate of whiny letters from humorless individuals who spend their days looking for ways to be offended. It appears some are not happy until they are completely miserable.
An Oak Harbor elementary school student and his family credit a custodian for saving his life.
Calvin Whelpley, a second-grader at Broad View Elementary, was eating his lunch when a piece of corn dog became lodged in his throat.
Unable to breathe, he got the attention of a classmate, who sought help from custodian Ron Dunphy.