Island County has given the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, the first evidence that the agency erred when it revised flood-risk maps this summer, Hiller West, director of current-use planning and community development, told the county commissioners during a work session Wednesday.
Seeking to strengthen a planning department that has endured much turnover, Island County is seeking a consultant, assistant director of planning and a long-range planner.
Scott Yonkman is a modest guy. Though the Building Industry Association of Washington in November named him one of its two Builders of Year for 2015, he is quick to credit his 10-person office for the success.
Bankrupt grocery chain Haggen on Tuesday postponed the auction of its 33 core stores until Feb. 11.
Island County will give $78,136 to the South Whidbey Homeless Coalition this year, which that group will supplement with at least $45,250 of its own, according to documents summarily approved Tuesday by the county’s board of commissioners.
Downtown Oak Harbor gained a new restaurant when Riverside Cafe, serving a large menu of American food including breakfast all day, opened last month at 705 Southeast Pioneer Way. It replaced Valle Azul.
Island County’s principal planner, Brad Johnson, 8 will become the senior planner for the city of Burlington Feb. 8, he said Monday.
A judge will determine whether a Greenbank couple had the right to build a stone wall across a historic public beach access, following a cliffhanger today at the Island County Board of Commissioners’ meeting.
What if they made a downtown and nobody came?
That’s what the 85 store-owners in Oak Harbor’s historical business district along Pioneer Way may be wondering as thousands of cars stream by on nearby State Highway 20 with only minimal signage guiding them in.
Careage of Whidbey, a skilled-nursing facility in Coupeville, has been closed to new patients since Dec. 17 because it had too many violations of nursing-home regulations, owner Ron Hayes said.
A man, a car and a cell phone. That sums up Island Delivery, a new service offered by Oak Harbor native Robert Sanders, 26. Call or text him any time, any day, and he’ll drive to pick up whatever you need and deliver it wherever you want, so long as it’s an Oak Harbor address.
Congress last month restored the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund for three years, a move one Washington environmental group called “a huge relief.”
At a packed meeting of the Board of Island County Commissioners Tuesday, 18 Whidbey Island residents spoke out — some harshly, and many to loud applause — against the Navy’s touch-and-go exercises at Coupeville’s Outlying Field.
