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.
Sno-Isle Library District has a $2.5 million deficit and officials are looking to residents for help.
Library officials are seeking local input about how to either make cuts to eliminate the shortfall or about the possibility of running a levy increase in the November 2009 election.
A local builder now knows what needs to be done to determine the future of a historic home he owns on North Main Street in Coupeville.
The town of Coupeville submitted a document Monday outlining the scope of an Environmental Impact Statement for the Joseph Libbey House.
U.S. Representative Rick Larsen diverted time away from his speech on the president’s first 100 days in office Saturday, to report on swine flu and its possible implications for Island County.
The congressman called on county health officer Roger Case to give an account of the outbreak.
Whidbey postal employees invite island dwellers to partake in the 17th annual “Stamp out Hunger” food drive on Saturday, May 9, and residents don’t even have to leave their front yards.
At 6:25 p.m., a caller reported a man trying to force a woman to get into a vehicle on NW Crosby Avenue near N. Oak Harbor Street.
United States Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Rick Larsen announced new legislation that they hope will eventually pump millions of dollars into the state ferry system.
The bill, known as the U.S. Ferry Systems Investment Act of 2009, would bring in $200 million per year to ferry systems across the country.
Elected officials from Island County were among hundreds of visitors last month on a special tour of the USS Abraham Lincoln, a storied aircraft carrier that transports aircrews from Whidbey Island Naval Air Station and many others to hot spots around the globe.
Island County Commissioner Angie Homola brought along sophomore Jami Zuber, a member of JROTC at Oak Harbor High School. Her father had served on the boat, which gave the visit extra meaning.