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Wonn Road settlement offer finds commissioner support
Island County’s commissioners are far apart on whether to accept an offer that could end litigation over a…
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Coupeville Careage facility closed to new patients due to violations
Careage of Whidbey, a skilled-nursing facility in Coupeville, has been closed to new patients since December 17 because…
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Battle for Wonn Road may end with settlement
An eight-year-old squabble over a wall built to block a popular beach access in Greenbank may come to…
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Firefighters, nurses ferment good times at Rain Shadow Cellars
Wines that taste the same year after year? That’s not what the foursome who own Rain Shadow Cellars…
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Compliance with Hearings Board order easier on some issues than others
Three of the seven environmental-protection issues in which a quasi-judicial board found Island County lacking can be resolved…
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Island County awards tourism money
Coupeville’s chamber of commerce scored the lion’s share of the county’s basic 2 percent hotel-motel tax revenues for…
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Road destroyed by Ledgewood landslide drops eight feet
A short stretch of Driftwood Way, the same road that was cut in half two years ago by…
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Island County commissioners considering challenge of federal flood area findings
The Island County commissioners are considering hiring an Edmonds engineering firm to help stave off new or increased…
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State allots more retail pot shops to Island County
Oak Harbor can become home to a second state-licensed marijuana retailer, and the rest of Island County can…
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Oak Harbor Haggen among stores on auction block
Oak Harbor’s Haggen store is among the 33 “core” locations that the Bellingham-based grocery chain won court approval…
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Increased Island County budget includes more money for law enforcement
Driven partly by an improved real estate market, Island County’s 2016 preliminary budget will increase by 8 percent…
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WEED ON WHIDBEY: Part 3-A day at the island’s first pot shop
“Have you tried the Pink Lady Kush concentrate? It’s an 80/20 indica dominant.”
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WEED ON WHIDBEY: Part 2-Where the green gets grown
Rockie Eggebrecht is a hard-working farmer, but not the kind who wears overalls, labors in the soil and…