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District discusses funding challenges with lawmakers
2024年12月6日 · The district has also been underfunded for special education by $11 million since 2021. In the 2023-24 school year, the district was $3 million short of the $19 million price tag to fully support its students with disabilities.
Teenager killed in accident - Whidbey News-Times
2024年12月3日 · 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.
U.S. Attorney’s Office looking at Oak Harbor case
2024年9月24日 · “The state is seeking to add substantive charges relating to Joshua Wiener’s act of providing drugs to (the victim) during the period that he groomed and eventually raped her, and his acts of making and developing video recordings depicting his sexual exploitation of (the victim),” the prosecutor’s motion states.
Oak Harbor installs long-awaited sculpture | Whidbey News-Times
2024年10月11日 · The Oak Harbor landscape has taken a slightly new shape. Around 80 members of the community, city staff, Sculpture Northwest and the Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce gathered at Flintstone Park on Thursday for the much-anticipated ribbon cutting of the Angel de la Creatividad, a 40-foot sculpture.
Kidnapper, child rapist sent to prison | Whidbey News-Times
2024年12月6日 · Wiener appeared in court last week for sentencing. The judge agreed with the sentencing recommendation and sent him to prison for 17 years. In a lengthy sentencing memorandum, Island County Deputy Prosecutor Michael Safstrom provides a detailed account of the crimes, focusing on how Wiener built a relationship with the vulnerable child and hid his abuse of her “in plain sight” before ...
Muzzall, St. Clair race still too close to call
2024年11月6日 · The contest between Muzzall and St. Clair was one of the most expensive in the state, with the candidates raising well over $1 million between them; in addition, political groups joined in with their own, often negative advertising about the candidates.
Stanwood, Oak Harbor finish investigation into ‘hateful words’ at …
2024年9月27日 · The schools said they could not release any information about suspensions. When the districts announced the investigation Monday, they wrote, “As per our school policies, WIAA rules, Wesco guidelines, and state law, we will enact disciplinary measures on anyone found in our systems to have instigated a racist activity.”
Warrant issued on assault suspect | Whidbey News-Times
2024年10月4日 · The elderly man tried to intervene when Brown assaulted a man in the kitchen. Instead, Brown punched the older man, the report states. The elderly victim was recuperating from surgery for an aortic aneurysm; his son had died and he was visiting Whidbey to take care of his affairs, the report states.