After opening bills for eye exams, blood tests and the other routing family medical procedures, I looked at the dog…
By Dave McCool President, Oak Harbor School Board The loss of junior varsity sports at the seventh and eighth grade…
By Jill Johnson The primary duty of the Greater Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce is to be an advocate for…
By Steve Johnson Supporters of public power in Jefferson and Skagit counties, and on Whidbey Island, have come to recognize…
The bailout of Wall Street couldn’t have happened at a better time for the average American who will have to…
Oak Harbor School District taxpayers received some good news last week when the bid for the major portion of the…
Economic development and the arts seldom come up in the same discussion, but on Whidbey Island they go together like…
Island County, the city of Oak Harbor and town of Coupeville have all started their budgeting processes for 2009 and…
Putting John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden aside, we should remember that there are many fascinating political…
One day I was eating blackberry pie as I filled out my Dungeness crab report card, and it dawned on…
In November, Washington voters will have the opportunity to vote for or against Booth Gardner’s I-1000 Initiative. Also referred to as the Death with Dignity initiative or the Assisted Suicide initiative, I-1000 has been written to closely parallel Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act enacted in October of 1997.
Whether you like her politics or not, if you’re an islander you’ve got to like Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate.
The Aug. 9 and 10 class reunion in Oak Harbor has come and gone and only the memory lingers on. And what wonderful memories they are. It is said that “you can’t go home again,” but I’m an optimist, so I’d rather think, “Backward, turn backward oh time in thy flight and make me a child again, just for tonight” (and you can always do that).
