A recent discovery on Oak Harbor’s waterfront has made a longtime headache for the city a whole lot bigger.
It’s not the roar of the whale they’ve been waiting for, but members of the Whidbey A-3 Skywarrior Memorial Foundation are celebrating a small victory recently.
Portions of Goldie and Gun Club roads in Oak Harbor may someday become the epicenter of the city’s adult entertainment businesses should any decide to locate in the city.
A North Whidbey man lost his West Sleeper Road home Saturday when it was destroyed by an early morning fire.
According to North Whidbey Fire and Rescue Chief Marv Koorn, the blaze appears to have started just after midnight. A neighbor called 911 at 12:13 a.m. and by the time firefighters got there, flames were coming through the roof.
Oak Harbor Police Department officials have confirmed that an investigation concerning a recent shooting is underway.
Slick road conditions were the likely cause of a rollover accident that sent a Coupeville woman to the hospital Monday.
According to Washington State Patrol Trooper Jason Nichols, 37-year-old Stephanie Wilson was heading northbound on Highway 20 shortly after 8 a.m. when the 2002 Suzuki XL7 SUV she was driving veered off the roadway, hitting an embankment and rolling over.
Oak Harbor and Island County officials are hoping a few changes to its service agreements with the Whidbey Animal’s Improvement Foundation may stem a flood of public records requests.
In a surprise move, the Island County Commissioners rejected a proposal Monday to increase development fees for the third time in less than two years.
Following a Dec. 27 public hearing in Coupeville, the Island County Board of Commissioners shot down by unanimous vote the recommendation of planning officials to increase the amount the department of Planning and Community Development charges for land use and building permits.
It’s taken 160 years, but it appears Oak Harbor’s founding fathers will finally have their day.
The Oak Harbor City Council resoundingly approved Dec. 21 an effort to honor Ulrich Freund, Clement Sumner and Zakarias Taftezon, the signers of the area’s first donation land claims in 1851, with a memorial at the end of SE City Beach Street. The project was approved unanimously.
To enhance downtown and qualify for perks that come with a University of Washington sustainability research project, Oak Harbor may spend up to $80,000 on public art for the SE Pioneer Way improvement project.
It’s 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning and six people are huddled in the doorway of a public bathroom at Ebey’s Landing trying to escape gusts of freezing wind and rain.
Two are from Coupeville but most are from South Whidbey, some as far away as Clinton. They’re bundled up in mittens, wool hats, scarves and rain jackets, and each has a pair of binoculars hanging from their necks. Each is also wearing a strange grin that stretches from ear-to-ear.
“You have to be wondering who these crazy people are,” said Joe Sheldon.
They’re bird watchers with varying degrees of expertise, ranging from those with decades of experience to beginners.
A squabble over the calculation of overtime pay has erupted into Whidbey General Hospital union representatives accusing hospital administrators of violating federal labor laws.
The two groups have been quietly debating the issue for the past 15 months but the controversy was brought to public light in dramatic fashion Monday evening when hospital purchasing agent Pat Lamont read aloud a memorandum sent to members of the United Food and Commercial Workers 21 union earlier that morning.
Faced with the prospect of unprecedented budget cuts, the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission has turned to the state for help in dousing financial flames being fanned by Whidbey Island firefighters.
