Michelle O’Kelley is behind Oak Harbor’s hurried effort to approve an emergency set of laws to regulate nudity and erotic dance within city limits.
“The emergency motion wasn’t called because someone was sunbathing nude at City Beach,” she said. “It was called because of my inquiries. In my opinion, that’s discrimination toward gentlemen’s clubs.”
Oak Harbor City Attorney Margery Hite and Prosecutor Bill Hawkins briefed Mayor Jim Slowik and others at a governmental services standing committee meeting last week about several “emergency” laws to regulate erotic dance within city limits.
Special Forces Army Ranger Joel Clarkson, the grandson of longtime Oak Harbor resident Virginia Williams, was wounded in Afghanistan last Friday.
Joel spent a month each summer with his grandmother and attended Oak Harbor High School for several months during his senior year in 2004 while he lived with his uncle David Williams, a 1977 Oak Harbor High School graduate and local long-haul trucker.
Deception Pass State Park rangers recovered the body of a woman who jumped from the bridge Tuesday afternoon.
Ranger Jack Hartt described her as a “middle-aged” woman from Everett. He did not provide the identity of the woman but said it appears she left a note in her car parked near the bridge.
A 27-year-old Coupeville man was recently sent to prison for having sex with an underaged girl, pointing a handgun at her head and threatening to kill her.
Today, they’re universally a friendly lot, polite and welcoming, looking like anyone’s grandpa or grandma. But look a little deeper and they’ve got some harrowing war memories tucked inside their brains, memories that Oak Harbor author Sharon Nicholson has managed to pry out and preserve for posterity.
Luke Felkner, captain of the state-champion Oak Harbor High School Culinary Team, made a profitable visit to the Oak Harbor Rotary Club last week.
Oak Harbor Police Department The following items were selected from reports made to the Oak Harbor Police Department: Sunday, March…
Dear Congressman Larsen:
Oak Harbor has outgrown its current library and is in desperate need of a new library. This is a major issue in this area and garners strong support. The Oak Harbor mayor, Jim Slowik, offered a location in central Oak Harbor. This site would have helped to revitalize the central city core. Skagit Valley College was interested in acquiring the library’s current location, to help with its expansion program. This project would have created a number of jobs and helped the local economy.
The beginning and end of each Daylight Saving Time always leaves us wondering: Why do we need so many clocks?
In the March 13 issue, columnist Joan Bay Klope stated that “92 percent of Americans believe in God.”
This is completely untrue. At this time there are at least 15 percent of Americans who are non-believers (that is over 45 million people!). We can have a contest here.
Whidbey Island Naval Air Station will be participating in a Navy-wide force protection exercise during the week of March 22.
Solid Curtain/Citadel Shield 10 is an annual training exercise conducted by the Navy to assess installation force protection and anti-terrorism measures employed by security forces.
The season started with a fairy-tale finish.