The Oak Harbor Council of the Navy League has won a 2010 Donald M. Mackie Award for best council newsletter.

The local chapter took second place in the medium council division for the “Quarter Deck,” which is published quarterly. Its staff is made up of K.C. and Skip Pohtilla and Jack Stiltz.

The Mackie Award honors excellence in both print and web-based communication. The awards were established in 1964 to encourage more effective communication between Navy League members, and were named after Donald M. Mackie, who was instrumental in establishing what is now known as “Seapower” magazine. The website category was added in 2007.

Other winners in the medium council division included the greater Austin council, which took first place and the Savannah council, which came in third. The Bremerton-Olympic Peninsula council won first place in the large council division.

The awards will be presented at the Hall of Fame and Honors luncheon in October, during the Navy League’s national convention in Chattanooga, Tenn.