Kathy Reed’s nerves were a little frayed watching the Fourth of July fireworks in Oak Harbor last week.
And not because of loud explosions.
Dave Cadwell couldn’t have scripted a better Fourth of July.
He grabbed a patio chair from home and sat comfortably on the side of the street, wearing a straw hat with two small American flags poking out from the sides.
Under almost perfect weather conditions, he enjoyed a front row seat of Oak Harbor’s Fourth of July parade with the city marina and Puget Sound serving as a backdrop.
Donning a fresh coat of primer, a bare wall in downtown Oak Harbor is about to be transformed into a work of art.
Funds were raised and an artist chosen to paint a mural that will beautify a wall along Pioneer Way and provide some detailed history about Oak Harbor.
Mike Najarian braced himself for a busy day of carnival chaos.
“Go find a ride and start doing something,” he told a group of three carnival workers as they inquired where to start.
Kyle Vandegriff was starting to get nervous.
He had planned the occasion down to the very last detail. And everything was falling into place wonderfully, except the one part he couldn’t control.
Outside of fireworks, the biggest attraction during Oak Harbor’s Fourth of July celebration is the grand parade.
Just don’t tell that to Pepper.
It wasn’t just her love for gardening that immersed Laura Medbury into a project that transformed a bare landscape into a work of beauty.
It was her fear of tumbling downhill.
As the sun peeked over a tree line of evergreen firs, Tom and Sharon Vos relaxed in two teak chairs on their back patio.
When there are no clouds in the sky, Mount Baker can be seen poking its top to the east. But on this day, even though the mountain was covered, the moment couldn’t have been more serene with waves of pink peonies in bloom, lace-leaf maples showing their brilliant green and a nearby waterfall crashing on to stone.
Lance Gibbon’s first year as Oak Harbor School District superintendent will come with a higher salary than his longtime predecessor’s.
Gibbon, who takes the reins as superintendent on July 1, will earn a base salary of $149,209 during his first year on the job, which is roughly $12,000 more than Rick Schulte’s base salary during his final year as superintendent of the Oak Harbor schools.
Outside of Rick Schulte’s new apartment in Richland, he has a view of a barren hillside known as Badger Mountain.
At 1,000 feet elevation, the mountain won’t be mistaken for Mount Baker by Schulte any time soon.
“It’s more of a hill than a mountain,” he said.
It is written as a one-woman show.
As much as starring in “Sister Robert Anne’s Cabaret Class” appealed to Sue Riney, the solo act aspect of it was a little unsettling.
It’s a lot to soak in for a fifth grader.
A national television appearance, radio and TV interviews, a tour of national landmarks she’d only read about in books.
After Karst Brandsma gets settled into his new role in Oak Harbor, he doesn’t expect it will take too long before he wanders over to Wildcat Memorial Stadium.
As the Oak Harbor School District’s new interim assistant superintendent, it’s part of his job to get out of the office, meet new people and develop relationships.
