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Dec 3, 2024 · The State Patrol reported that the teenager was driving a 2022 Dodge Charger north on Highway 20 at a high rate of speed. She lost control at the curve at the intersection of Libbey Road, crossed into the wrong lane, left the roadway and struck a pole.

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Jan 7, 2025 · The Madison Bay, which Zustiak said weighs approximately 1,700 tons, will be moved with the help of about 12 to 15 workers and what he described as “sausage-shaped airbags,” multi-layered rubber bags that are placed under …

Jan 7, 2025 · EP-3s have operated in or near all of the world’s hotspots, including the South China Sea, Libya, Syria and the Caribbean. The plane became a worldwide focal point in 2001, when an EP-3 assigned to the National Security Agency’s Sensitive Reconnaissance Operations Program collided with a Chinese J-8 fighter jet over the South China Sea, near Hainan Island, killing the Chinese pilot and ...

Dec 10, 2024 · Community members have been rallying to help a homeless man after he tried to save a teenager who died in a car crash on Dec. 2. Jeff Pangburn, 55, was lying under the gazebo at the Libbey Road and Highway 20 intersection on North Whidbey when, at about 3 a.m., he heard what he described as a “big crack.”

Jan 10, 2025 · Oak Harbor police arrested a man who barricaded himself in an assisted living home after threatening people with a box cutter following a fight over a scooter on Wednesday, according to court documents. Stephen E. Collins, a 65-year-old Oak Harbor resident, appeared in Island County Superior Court ...

Dec 13, 2024 · The Island County administrator announced this week that he will be resigning from the position, effective Feb. 7. Michael Jones, the former city manager in Blaine, was hired as the first person in the newly created position in the summer of 2022.

Bernardine Ida Janssen, Deena to all who know her, 77, of Oak Harbor, WA, passed away on January 30, 2025…. Read Story

Nov 12, 2024 · A Freeland woman was seriously injured in a vehicular collision Friday afternoon on the highway. Maria Kelly, 85, was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle following the incident.