Faced with a possible repair bill costing tens of thousands of dollars, Port of Coupeville officials may have found a way to get the work done more cheaply.
Five wooden pilings beneath the Coupeville Wharf are failing and early estimates put replacement at $50,000. There are a total of 134 pilings holding up the causeway leading out to the wharf building.
A 23-year-old Coupeville man accused of attempting to rape a woman who police reports allege he purchased in Mexico appeared at a chaotic court hearing in Coupeville Monday afternoon.
In the end, Miguel De Jesus’ attorney entered a plea of not guilty to a charge of attempted rape in the second degree. Prosecutors charged him April 20 in Island County Superior Court.
Folks who owe money on unpaid traffic tickets or other kinds of fines through district and municipal courts can get off the financial hook at a greatly reduced rate under a “debt reduction / relicensing program” this month.
Island County District Court and the municipal courts of Oak Harbor, Coupeville and Langley are taking part in the program along with about 100 other courts in the state.
Oak Harbor Police Dept. The following items were selected from reports made to the Oak Harbor Police Department. Sunday, May…
The Legislature has adopted a budget for 2009 to 2011, but minority Republicans say it simply puts off the day…
The Oak Harbor High School tennis team had the vaunting task of playing the second-place Snohomish Panthers Thursday afternoon in the final home match of the 2009 season
Lt. Cmdrs. Lisa L. and Alex J. Grosso, Jr., MSC, USN/RET, of Coupeville announce the fourth generation enlistment in the U.S. Navy of their son, Hospitalman Apprentice Peter Andreas Grosso, on May 6.
Grosso’s enlistment was followed in succession by graduations from Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill., on June 27, 2008, Hospital Corps “A” School, Great Lakes, on Oct. 29, 2008 and most recently Fleet Marine Force Training, Field Medical Training Battalion, Camp Pendleton, Calif., March 13.
Air Force Airman Maria V. McGinnis graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. The…
Close to 100 Coupeville elementary children and parents recently decided to “get smarter” about their own health by attending at Wellness Fair put on by event chairs Andrea Capiola and Michele Renninger, RN.
Volunteers are important members of the Hospice Team, a group of professionals who focus on ways to promote physical, emotional, social, and spiritual comfort for the terminally ill. Medicare-certified Skagit Hospice serves Skagit, Island, North Snohomish, and San Juan counties.
Island County commissioners will begin the process of choosing a new planning director from among more than 40 applicants Monday.
The commissioners are scheduled to meet in a closed-door session Monday to evaluate the qualifications of those who applied.
A 12-year-old Oak Harbor girl said a man tried to grab her and drag her to a car while she was jogging on the city’s waterfront trail Tuesday evening, the Oak Harbor Police reported.
The girl’s father, Oak Harbor dentist Gordon Keyes, said his family is very alarmed and wants to warn the community about the danger.
While the health and environmental dangers posed by methamphetamine labs are well known, health experts are just starting to realize the mounting problems with heavy meth use contaminating homes and cars, possibly putting unsuspecting people at risk.
On North Whidbey, a few business people are learning the high cost of cleaning up after methamphetamine smoke.