What’s a lonely guy or gal to do with Valentine’s Day near and no one to share it with?
Oak Harbor’s singles are familiar with the meat markets in town: the happy hour specials, mechanical bull riding, Jell-O wrestling … and the scene deteriorates from there.
With 20 ballots left to count from the Feb. 9 special election, the margin of support for the Coupeville School District’s maintenance and operations levy is climbing higher.
Again this year, the majority of the funds collected through Island County’s lodging tax were disbursed to the six chambers of commerce in the county.
But that distribution could change in the future.
A King County judge ruled last week that the state has failed in its constitutional duty to fully fund education.
The Coupeville and Oak Harbor school districts both gave verbal support for the lawsuit, which was filed in 2007.
Oak Harbor High School freshman Zack Hastings laments that “there’s not much to do in Oak Harbor.”
For Hastings, and other young people who can’t find the right activity to meet their interests, there may be a new answer to teen boredom.
Even nurses have a thing or two to learn about heart health.
Barbara Read, R.N., a labor and delivery nurse at Whidbey General Hospital, considers herself well-versed in the health care profession.
“I’ve been in this field for 30 years and yet I learned something from this experience,” she said of Whidbey General Hospital’s Heartwise screening program.
Red wines and chocolates have become a popular combination, and for good reason. A wonderfully rich and flavorful red wine is enhanced by dark slightly sweet chocolate. This year the Whidbey Island’s wineries and the Greenbank Farm are among those celebrating this decadent combination with the Red Wine and Chocolate Wine Tour and the farm’s annual Sweetheart Market, Feb. 13 and 14, sponsored by Chocolates by George.
Want to learn to love your garden, save your back and have more time in your life? Valerie Easton, Langley resident and author of “The New Low Maintenance Garden,” will explain how in her keynote address at this year’s Whidbey Gardening Workshop on Saturday, March 20 at Coupeville Middle/High School.
Oak Harbor Police Department The following items were selected from reports made to the Oak Harbor Police Department: Sunday, Feb….
After nearly a year, a town of Coupeville, $5,000 funded program to help drum up business is coming to an end.
The 2009 Central Whidbey First program expired Feb. 8, which was the last time people could fill a stamp card to enter a monthly, $100 drawing.
There is good news for those of us who have been trying to ban jet airplanes by writing whiny columns about them every few years.
Cartoonist Milt Priggee should recall that on this past Christmas our nation was saved from a 300-plus life tragedy by a regular citizen that took remedial action. Law enforcement didn’t, or couldn’t, do the job.
There’s never a dull day at the Oak Harbor School District bus barn.
But last Friday was an extra challenge for Transportation Director Francis Bagarella and a couple of his bus drivers.
Bus number 4, a 1986 Blue Bird, broke down near Regatta and Whidbey Avenue early Friday morning, just blocks from the school district bus barn on Midway Boulevard and E. Whidbey Avenue. The bus didn’t have any students on board and was towed back to the yard.