Coupeville was jam-packed with people Saturday. Throngs of festival-goers descended upon the historic town to enjoy an unseasonably warm day and celebrate the town’s famous shellfish.
The Penn Cove MusselFest took place last weekend throughout the town. The festival features the renowned Penn Cove mussel, complete with cooking demonstrations, a chowder contest and a mussel eating contest.
The Guerilla Film Project competition, held at Bellingham’s Pickford Cinema, recently awarded a third-place prize to Oak Harbor High School for the short film “Ninja Police.”
It was considered a “miracle” in 1980 when a small group of theater buffs made a permanent home for the Whidbey Playhouse on Oak Harbor’s Midway Boulevard.
What began as a semi-nomadic company performing in elementary schools and the basement of credit unions is today an engaging theatrical enterprise on the grounds of a historic former church.
A $339,925 grant from the Washington State Department of Transportation will cover new enhanced street crossings to improve school children’s safety during their commutes to and from school.
The Washington State Department of Transportation will re-evluate the speed limits along Highway 20 in Oak Harbor, announced City Engineer Eric Johnston at Tuesday’s City Council meeting.
A methamphetamine-contaminated car that Oak Harbor police seized in a drug bust last December was turned into a steel pancake Thursday afternoon.
Oak Harbor police on Dec. 2 arrested 29-year-old Jose Rosas Robles on suspicion of dealing heroin in a conspicuous bust on Highway 20 near Safeway.
An Oak Harbor small town politician and businesses leader, Bob Severns, has made a global name for himself.
Earlier this week, the Washington Banking Company elected Severns to serve on its board of directors. Severns was also elected to serve on the board of Whidbey Island Bank, the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary.
Central Whidbey residents will have a chance to check out a book while checking out what $2.3 million worth of taxpayer bonds will purchase.
The newly renovated Coupeville Public Library is scheduled to open 10 a.m. on Monday, March 8. The announcement was made this week.
The city of Oak Harbor won’t be splitting from Island County to start its own municipal court, but there still could be a night court in the city someday.
City and county officials officially resolved a long-standing stalemate Monday over the amount the city pays for overhead costs at the joint district and municipal court. The county commissioners adopted a new four-year contract Monday that cuts the overhead cost from $30,000 to $17,200 a year.
Tax year 2009 looks like a gentle one for Whidbey Island residents, said Karen Bishop, the local coordinator for the AARP Tax Aide Foundation.
In the last five weeks, more than 180 people filed their 2009 taxes with the help of AARP volunteers at Skagit Valley College’s Whidbey Campus and over 60 did the same in Coupeville at Saint Mary’s Church.
So far, participation is down slightly from last year, but Bishop expects more people will show as April 15 nears.
Seven members of the Whidbey Island Running Club won divisional titles at the Smelt Run in LaConner Feb. 27.
At the Kamiak Age Group Invitational Swim Meet at Kamiak High School Feb. 27 and 28, North Whidbey Aquatic Club swimmers all earned first-time qualifying times for the Northwest Region Age Group Sectional (AGS) Championships in Federal Way, March 19-21, a meet drawing the fastest 5 percent of swimmers from six western states.
The letter by Gary Piazzon this last week got me thinking. Why is there such a hardcore belief in “global…