Oak Harbor News

Over the past five years, the number of students receiving free and reduced lunches from the Coupeville School District has nearly doubled.

Oak Harbor resident George Holtry speaks at a city council meeting Tuesday concerning the recent firing of Fire Chief Mark Soptich.

Oak Harbor resident Don Pierce is trying to find a home for his mother's cats. And she had a lot of them.

The ferries were bought at a high price and have some odd characteristics: the tendency to list, the engines that seem to waste fuel, and tight quarters for vehicles.

Oak Harbor High School student Brandon Abraham, metal fabrication teacher Jerry Mumper, and students Matthew Barrailler and Christopher Anderson stand around their completed midsection of the Admiralty Head Lighthouse lantern house.

Garry Oak Gallery's February featured artist is Jeanne Sears Valdez, a painter whose style ranges from abstraction to realism.

A 30-year-old man who drove over a pothole in his Lexus is asking Oak Harbor to foot the bill.

Island County Prosecutor Greg Banks has had yet another success in defending a groundbreaking conviction of an Oak Harbor child murderer.

SCO presents "From Russia with Love" featuring young violinist Lara Lewison at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan.

Political hopeful William Pohtilla speaks with Oak Harbor City Councilman Jim Campbell after a special meeting Monday.

Zombies are coming to Whidbey Island and you can groan and dance along as the Oak Harbor High School Choir Club and Media Arts Club create "Thrill the Island," an island-wide music video of Michael Jackson's "Thriller." More than 50 students are working on the project and they hope hundreds of community members across Whidbey Island will join in as ... (more)

There are so many remakes these days it's as if anything created 20 years or more ago is a... Melanie Goyette and Kevin Endejan were married July 23 while cruising aboard the Osprey at Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, with Florence Morrison officiating.

That was the day he allegedly stabbed one of his grandfathers more than 30 times, tied up his great aunt with packing tape and then drove to his mother's house where he also stabbed his other grandfather to death.

Vashon schools closed Wednesday No school Wednesday in Sumner School District Warming Center primed if power goes off Auburn officials urge citizens to take safety precautions as winter blast passes through State Route 410 closed between Bonney Lake and Buckley due to accident With predictions of snow and dicey roads, all schools in the Bellevue ... (more)

Raymond Knight, Detron Fields, Chardoney Knight, Samone Knight, Diavion' Fields, and Dominique Fields enjoy a snowball fight after snow fell on Oak Harbor.

A former human-resources manager of Trident Seafoods in Anacortes is charged with several counts of theft on reports that he funneled paychecks of former employees into his own bank account.

Pinnacle Mortgage Planning is pleased to announce the opening of a new mortgage loan office in Oak Harbor, Washington.

In a recently hammered out land agreement, Beatrice Morgan signed over 19 undeveloped tideland lots, which extend more than a quarter mile along the Strait of Juan de Fuca near West Beach and Fort Nugent roads, to the Whidbey Camano Land Trust.

The firing of Oak Harbor City Administrator Paul Schmidt and City Attorney Margery Hite will cost taxpayers at least $147,765. Both were unceremoniously let go late last week by newly elected Mayor Scott Dudley.