In the wake of recent findings by the state Auditor’s Office and a subsequent internal investigation by city officials, Oak Harbor Marina harbormaster Mack Funk has resigned from his position.
Much to the relief of Whidbey Island elected officials and ferry leaders, Gov. Christine Gregoire’s plan for a regional ferry taxing district appears to have sunk before ever really getting afloat.
Nuclear weapons, pipe bombs, even the occasional long-forgotten box of dynamite; there is no job too big or too small for the bomb boys at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.
They’ve got the training, the equipment, and the guts to do it all, a fact Explosive Ordnance Disposal Detachment Northwest personnel prove again and again.
Decades of planning, discussion, and community input for a downtown revitalization project came to an end this week with the swish of a pen.
A proposal to increase Oak Harbor’s annual contribution to a Whidbey Island tourism promotional group was shot down this week with a resounding “no.”
Success in business can be a gamble and for one well known Oak Harbor businessman, 2011 is a time for throwing in all his chips.
On Jan. 3, Gerry Oliver decided to overlook a stubborn housing market and months of construction ahead on SE Pioneer Way – a factor that’s driven more than one business to new locales – to open his very first real estate office right smack dab in the middle of downtown.
After months of controversy and an opinion from Washington’s top lawyer that says Oak Harbor sub-committee policies do not adhere to the Open Public Meetings Act, city officials last week unveiled changes that will bring the rules into compliance.
Inmates at Oak Harbor’s lock up now have a get-out-of-jail-free card.
The city launched a pilot program this month that will allow some inmates to spend their nights in the comfort of their own homes instead of behind bars.
The price for their freedom? Spending their daylight hours performing community service jobs around town.
Hopes that interest rates in the municipal bond market would improve have gone unrealized and Oak Harbor may have no other choice but to take out an inter-fund loan so it can pay off incoming receipts for the marina dredging project.
A fire that broke out at an Oak Harbor nursing home Thursday evening could have been much worse had it not been for an overhead sprinkler system.
Oak Harbor is moving forward with plans to spend up to $80,000 on public art along SE Pioneer Way as part of the downtown street’s one-way conversion.
Rumors that the P-3 Orion patrol squadrons along with several thousand jobs will taken way from Whidbey Island Naval Air Station give new impetus to an annual spring travel ritual undertaken by Oak Harbor officials.
Oak Harbor sub-committee policies that violate state public meeting laws will be the topic of a special open workshop this week.
The meeting, to be held Thursday at 6 p.m. at City Hall, will be the first time the city council has met to discuss in detail an opinion released by the state Office of the Attorney General more than a month ago regarding sub-committee rules.
