As with other scenic locations, Whidbey and Camano islands don’t lack photo possibilities.
Oak Harbor has picked a new sister city from the Philippines.
As proud as Rick Castellano has been of the history on display at the Island County Historical Museum, he’s always felt it was lacking a significant piece of Whidbey Island’s story.
Packing 10,000 years of history into a 1,400-square foot room is an impractical, perhaps even impossible, task.
And Rick Castellano will be the first to tell you.
Sometimes, being an artist in a cooperative gallery involves painting walls as well as canvases.
Ordinarily, it’s Les MacCormick’s role to offer inspiration.
As simple as it was for Kim Niles to draw caricatures, the hard part was finding the right marketplace to sell them.
Sarah Hansen expects to become even better acquainted with Oak Harbor in the coming years.
Dale Sherman is up to his elbows in squash.
It’s a common position he finds himself in. In fact, he’s rarely known another in a lifetime of farming on Ebey’s Prairie.
Heather Carder is hopeful that one day Oak Harbor’s historic downtown will be a vibrant shopping district and tourist destination.
Sometimes, ideas come from the simplest forms of inspiration.
“Island of Hope” is the theme for the 2015 Relay for Life of Whidbey Island campaign, which starts with a rally 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14, at the Oak Harbor Elks Lodge.
The public is invited to the event, which begins the process of recruiting fundraising teams as well as recognizing top achievers from last year.
The cadence of Rich Rodgers’ voice is sharp and to the point.
He carries a no-nonsense tone yet is mindful of the audience before him.
Teaching first aid is serious business to Rodgers, regardless if the group that sits around a table before him on a recent January evening happens to be an inquisitive Cub Scout troop of 8- and 9-year-olds from Oak Harbor.
