A 22-year-old Oak Harbor who recently pleaded guilty to rape of a child in the second-degree will likely get treatment instead of prison time.
Oak Harbor’s Ryan Richards is ready to take on the world.
“Despite the objections of residents, the Oak Harbor City Council followed the advice of city staff and voted 6-1 to annex 80 acres into the city Tuesday night.”
Prices are not equal at local grocery stores.
Help may be coming for local business in the form of new marketing efforts and meetings to hammer out the differences between business needs and governmental policy.
Coupeville has three valedictorians this year.
“A little more than six months ago, the managers of New Leaf were thinking they’d have to move. Yet today, New Leaf owns its former rental, a three-story, 4,900-square-foot building on Fidalgo Avenue, and is in the process of remodelling it.”
The job of cop on campus at Oak Harbor High School may be in jeopardy next year unless the city and school district can work out a new way to pay for it.
Whidbey Playhouse’s Dial M for Murder has a nice ring to it.
Whidbey General Hospital Emergency Medical Services Manager Roger Meyers is excited about the new Oak Harbor paramedic quarters currently under construction at 800 N.E. 7th Ave.
“Charles Evans, 95, was a raw recruit when the U.S. Army posted him to Fort Casey, back in the early 1920s. It was a quiet time, between world wars. On Saturday, June 10, the Seattle man will get a hero’s welcome when he returns to Fort Casey as a guest of honor at the fort’s 100th anniversary celebration.”
Oak Harbor eighth-grader gets a one-girl graduation ceremony
“Boat, said Julie Rothwell. Yup, said Russell Seelye. With that, the two left the comfortable, warm galley of the fishing tender Taku, anchored off Blower’s Bluff on Wednesday, and headed on deck to take the lines of the commercial crab boat, Seeker. Seelye and Rothwell – skipper and first mate aboard the 67-foot, 1947-era Taku – spent a lot of time leaving the galley Wednesday. They were busy buying dungeness crab from a fleet of about 35 commercial crab fishermen, lured to the waters around Oak Harbor last week by a productive 39-hour spring opening for commercial crabbers.”
