Melissa Mitchell’s friends and family are rallying to give her a chance to win an adapted van, courtesy of a contest run by the National Mobility Equipment Dealers Association, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding mobility options for people with disabilities. The organization is giving away vehicles equipped with the adaptive equipment each winner needs.
Local video production guru Rafael Guzman of Oak Harbor wants to feature your photos in a special Whidbey Island project.
Russell Carey, 28, could walk all day. He’s a client of Service Alternatives, an organization that helps people with disabilities. Most of their clients need help getting a job. Carey is one of the few who takes advantage of help with housing and work.
Activists concerned about Navy jet noise decided they weren’t done grilling the Island County Board of Health.
He was waiting to cross at the intersection of Heller Road and Crosby at around 5:30 p.m. He got the walk light, mounted his bike and pedaled across. An Oak Harbor man driving a red truck hit the boy, sending him bouncing off the hood. His head hit the pavement.
The public can see big rigs, get free treats and check out the construction site of the new sewer treatment plant at a Family Fun Day set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, at Windjammer Park.
Oak Harbor Elementary briefly in lockdown after parent becomes agitated
Activists concerned about Navy jet noise decided they weren’t done grilling the Island County Board of Health.
Members of the Citizens of Ebey’s Reserve, or COER, returned in force for the second time Tuesday, bringing a list of actions they think the board should take and some tough words for public officials they say aren’t listening to their constituents.
People living on North Whidbey worried that a planned protest of Skagit County refineries this past weekend would include people dangling off the Deception Pass Bridge or blocking State Highway 20.
Those fears didn’t materialize.
Aviators who fly the F/A-18 Hornet and EA-18G Growler are reporting problems with air contamination as well as loss of oxygen and pressurization during flight, and at least one lawmaker wants the Navy to conduct an independent review of the problem.
Oak Harbor School District drinking water does not contain lead.
Some Navy families in the Capehart Housing at Crescent Harbor saw quite a sight Tuesday when an emu flapped through the neighborhood.
Anne Tarrant, the president of the Whidbey Island Public Hospital District Board, handed in her letter of resignation Monday citing plans to relocate.
