Digging up what sort of activities are available for children can be a daunting task for parents as the summer approaches.
Two Oak Harbor residents are trying to make the process a little easier.
Before Sylvan Learning made a major financial investment into a digital-based curriculum, it set up an advisory group to test the waters and provide feedback.
One of the advisors, Kathleen Casprowitz, dove right in.
To Casprowitz, the idea of using an iPad to help facilitate teaching, testing and studying in the digital era made perfect sense.
The land on which Sheila Case-Smith grows tomatoes, rhubarb and other produce has been farmed in her family since 1898.
Yet, despite more than a century worth of tilling the soil, a familiar problem still continues to surface on occasion.
Oak Harbor merchants are exploring a new strategy to revitalize downtown.
Business owners are revisiting the idea of the national Main Street program designed to attract attention to a city’s historic downtown core.
The arrival of a new foal is one of nature’s signs that spring is here.
As a horse breeder, Louise Reuble has grown accustomed to this ritual and understands a new baby often attracts more visitors.
When her 22-year marriage ended in divorce, Sherry McWherter admits she struggled to get over it.
But after years of being down, things were starting to look up.
McWherter moved into an Oak Harbor mobile home in December, gifted to her by her daughter and son-in-law. With her antique oak furniture and oil paintings, and a new tile floor and appliances installed by her son-in-law, the interior looked great, according to her daughter Amanda Glaspie.
After spending 28 years as an educator, Diane Tompkinson is familiar with ways to try to keep a child’s attention.
The joy of participating in the Holland Happening grand parade was clear from the smile on Sophia Bahner’s face.
Bahner, 5, was one of 30 members with Woodward’s Taekwondo Academy in Oak Harbor demonstrating their moves along streets lined with parade watchers in downtown Oak Harbor Saturday.
In its present state, the land appears to be nothing more than a barren field dotted with freshly planted trees, small mounds of dirt and a wall covered in plastic.
Netsah Zylinsky looks deeper into the landscape and the future and sees something altogether different.
The assessment begins the moment volunteer candidates arrive at the front door of the historic Jacob Ebey House.
Lynn Hyde jokes that the long walk to get there is sort of a test.
“It’s survival of the fittest,” she said.
It’s always the big fish that spike the most interest.
When Dave Whitmer and others with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife travel to different communities with truckloads of trout to unload, it’s often the jumbo-sized trout that draw the most curiosity.
In years to come, who knows what might become of the wooden shoes that were once a signature of Oak Harbor’s Holland Happening.
To move the inventory, Kathy Reed is open to suggestions.
Nobody ever said restoring an Oak Harbor tradition as big as the Dutch Dinner would be easy.
For Nathan Yoast, the effort actually brought him to tears.
Yoast couldn’t take it anymore Wednesday as he set down his knife and rinsed his eyes after chopping dozens of onions in the culinary arts class at Oak Harbor High School.
