Thursday, Feb. 24, 1966, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 1991 and Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2001 | HISTORY CORNER
Published 2:17 pm Tuesday, January 19, 2016
50 years ago
Editor: Ace Comstock
Baby Island resort sold to local real estate firm
“Baby Island resort, at one time the largest and most favored fishing resort on the south end, has been sold to a real estate firm. The firm, Coast Wide Land, Inc., of Clinton will subdivide the property into lots and sell them along with the cabins. Ken Bridges, salesman for the firm, said the cabins will be remodeled along with the dock and boat house, which will be available to the new owners. In a trade involving $325,000 worth of property, the resort was first exchanged for a trailer park in Kent before being sold to Coast Wide. Vern Johnson, formerly of Langley, had owned the resort for the past 17 years. He traded the resort for Circle K Mobile Homes owned by Dwight Morgan. Morgan then quickly sold the resort to the real estate firm in a deal completed yesterday.”
25 years ago
Editor: Jim Larsen
Freeland battalion chief suspended in FD 3 move
“Freeland Battalion Chief Scott Treggett has been ‘suspended’ from duty by Fire District 3 Commissioners Tom Saunders and Gary Gabelein. The two commissioners made the announcement Tuesday night following an executive session. The third commissioner, Ken McClellan, had left the meeting early to sit on a board that decides claims for needy veterans.
“McClellan said Friday that he knew nothing of plans to suspend Treggett, who he described as ‘a very dedicated individual.’ He said he was not informed of the move until Thursday. ‘I was absolutely amazed,’ he said, adding that he would ‘absolutely’ have voted against the suspension.”
Editor’s note: Three years later, a hearing examiner threw out all allegations of wrongdoing levied against Treggett, a 20-year veteran. He was reinstated and all records and charges removed from his personal file.
15 years ago
Editor: Jim Larsen
Phone call puts boaters in peril
“A boater who momentarily took his attention off his tiller to answer a cell phone call wound up stranded in South Whidbey tideflats Saturday afternoon, then had to have his family rescued by fire district volunteers.
“Richard Haley of Port Townsend was sailing his 24-foot boat, the Raven, south of Maxwelton Beach around noon Saturday when he received a cellular phone call from his brother. As he spoke on the phone, a sudden gust blew his boat into 4-foot-deep water about 150 feet from shore. The boat’s keel stuck in the sand, standing the boat. By 12:30 p.m., water rescue personnel from Fire District 3 launched a rescue boat from Possession Point Park after receiving a request for help from Haley through the U.S. Coast Guard.”
