Whidbey News-Times Publisher Marcia Van Dyke announced this week that the newspaper is moving its office from Oak Harbor to Coupeville because the current, aging building on SE Barrington Drive is too large for the staff and too expensive to maintain.
Faced with the dilemma of finding new office space, Van Dyke decided to consolidate space with its sister newspaper, the South Whidbey Record.
In an opinion published last week, the Washington State Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a former Oak Harbor man who beat his 21-month old son to death in 1991.
Many Island County residents are probably not aware that they are supposed to purchase licenses for their dogs, and for Oak Harbor residents, even their cats.
Not doing so means that runaway pets may be harder to return to their owners. And it means that the money isn’t being collected by local government.
The Whidbey Island Naval Air Station will receive an additional 26 EA-18G Growler aircraft under President Obama’s 2011 defense budget.
Under the proposal, the Department of Defense plans to purchase the additional 26 electronic attack aircraft over the next two years.
U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen made the announcement late Monday.
A former Oak Harbor swim coach who was accused of sexually molesting at least a dozen young swimmers, including one Whidbey Island girl, was sentenced to 40 years in prison in a California courtroom Jan. 29.
Andrew “Andy” King, 61, pleaded no contest to 20 child molestation charges last year in the San Jose court.
Kevin Porter came home extremely drunk to a travel trailer parked in a Greenbank woods and started beating his sleeping girlfriend last Saturday night.
The 38-year-old man didn’t stop until the woman’s body was covered with bruises, her vertebra was cracked and she suffered life-threatening hemorrhaging in the space between her brain and the tissue that surrounds it.
An Island County Sheriff’s deputy who was a victim of budget cuts likely saved a woman’s life during his last week on the job, according to Detective Sgt. Mike Beech.
With the help of a victim, investigators solved dozens of theft cases and uncovered a group of Oak Harbor thieves who were selling stolen electronics on eBay, according to the Island County Sheriff’s Office.
Detective Sgt. Mike Beech said investigators arrested three people last week in connection with a rash of boat break-ins on North Whidbey.
Oak Harbor police and Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents arrested a suspected OxyContin dealer Wednesday.
An undercover agent purchased a bottle of 42 pills of 80-milligram OxyContin from 24-year-old Joshua Adams of Oak Harbor, according to Oak Harbor police. The agent paid $2,500 for the small bottle of pills, then police promptly swooped in and arrested him.
A man suspected in the Jan. 4 armed robbery of Linds Pharmacy and Drug in Coupeville was caught after committing a similar crime in Oregon, according to the Island County Sheriff’s Office.
George Skurtu, a 22-year-old Bremerton resident, and his alleged accomplice were stopped by police Jan. 7 after a robbery at the Pill Box Pharmacy in Dallas, Ore.
A 28-year-old Oak Harbor man who raped a child received the maximum sentence.
A jury in Island County Superior Court found Jason Bridges guilty of the rape of a child in the first degree following a trial last November. His victim was a 6-year-old girl.
The total assessed value of Island County decreased in 2009 for the first time in at least two decades.
Island County Assessor Dave Mattens said the county’s total assessed value dipped by about 2 percent to $14,629,093,831 in 2009. That assessment will be used for the tax year 2010.
A 61-year-old child molester who was wanted on a warrant out of Island County Superior Court for more than 30 years finally faced justice Monday.
Judge Vickie Churchill revoked the deferred sentence William Minish received in a 1978 plea bargain and sent him to prison for 10 years.
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