When middle school and high school jazz bands on Whidbey Island meet, it’s usually to face off in a contest.
However, each year, the Whidbey Island Jazz Society hosts a concert that erases the competitive atmosphere and lets jazz students share the limelight.
Fourth and fifth-graders at Broad View Elementary School are getting an early lesson in road safety, with a new $20,700 grant for P.E. classes.
The Bicycle Alliance of Washington grant provided 33 bikes for the Oak Harbor school district.
When a lot of us so called “baby-boomers” were growing up, we had our sports heroes that we all tried to emulate and would have given almost anything on earth to be like.
I have been thinking about the story about legal distilleries in Washington for almost a month and it is still…
Sno-Isle Regional Library System, which operates four libraries on Whidbey Island, has a tough job ahead of it trying to…
One of the largest kelp beds in Washington state nearly surrounds two tiny islands off the west coast of Whidbey Island.
The underwater forest of seaweed is an ideal nursery for baby fish, according to Cyrilla Cook of People for Puget Sound. The surrounding waters support a diverse ecosystem of sea creatures, including orcas, harbor seals, salmon, halibut, lingcod, tufted puffins and black oystercatchers.
It’s such an important habitat for the species that People for Puget Sound, a nonprofit conservation group, is trying to get 30,000 acres of state-owned bedlands and tidelands turned into a state aquatic reserve.
Rather than roller skating, shooting pool or studying in the computer lab, a group of teens participated in something more holy at the Roller Barn in Oak Harbor.
More than 100 teenagers worshipped Wednesday night as part of the National Day of Prayer Youth Rally.
The Island County prosecutor was forced to dismiss felony charges against four people because of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision.
The ruling will likely affect many misdemeanor cases, as well as the caseloads for police and prosecutors in the future.
“The reality is that a lot of guns and drugs won’t be found,” Prosecutor Greg Banks said.
Joel Douglas, owner of the Coachman Inn, hopes that some day the code will be expanded to include color electronic images, but if planning commissioner Keith Fakkema had his way, there’d be no commercial signs at all in Oak Harbor.
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…