In an attempt to engage the community more, the Oak Harbor Police Department is relying on some new techniques and old ideas.
Chief Ed Green, who took the job last year, created the Community Service Team a few months ago. The name of the new unit within the police department is self-descriptive: It’s about serving the community.
There’s something mysterious about the Colonel’s House.
The three-story, colonial-style home with gothic elements sits at the highest elevation on Camp Casey with an expansive view of Puget Sound.
Retired Cmdr. Harry Ferrier still owns the baseball cap he wore the day he was hit in the head by Japanese gunfire and fell unconscious.
Some 20,000 feet in the air, 17-year-old radioman and gunner Ferrier came to with a gunshot to the wrist, the aircraft’s turret gunner dead and his pilot wounded in a malfunctioning TBF-1 Avenger.
