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Oak Harbor, Washington is located in Island County. Zip codes in Oak Harbor, WA include 98277, and 98278. The median home price in Oak Harbor is $237,900 which is roughly $131/per square foot. More Oak Harbor information.

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Friday May 17 | KOMO News

Police: Mom uses young daughter to steal teen's violin

UPDATE: Kalob Tatum says his stolen violin was recovered Thursday night. Details about how the violin was returned are sketchy, but Tatum said it is damaged and needs to be repaired before he can play it.

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Wed May 15, 2013

Whidbey News-Times

Reluctant return

When Stephen Rodrick returned to Oak Harbor and started unpeeling layers from his past, part of him became a frightened 13-year-old boy again.

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Tue May 14, 2013

HeraldNet

Front Porch: Human rights vigil May 29 in Everett

Human rights vigil The Snohomish County Commission on Human Rights is hosting a May 29 vigil honoring Brisenia and Raul Flores, the 9-year-old Arizona girl and her father murdered in 2009 by an anti-immigrant activist from Everett.

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South Whidbey Record

Dozens turn out for Day of Prayer in Coupeville

Carl Smith blows his shofar at the National Day of Prayer event in Coupeville. The shofar is a ram's horn used in Jewish ceremonies such as Rosh Hashanah.

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Mon May 13, 2013

Whidbey News-Times

Young Oak Harbor Samaritan honored for his honesty, tenacity

Jonathan McLaughlin, a junior at Oak Harbor High School, discovered that after trying to return a woman's purse last month.

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Sat May 11, 2013

Whidbey News-Times

Oak Harbor School board focuses on Gibbon as superintendent

He came to Oak Harbor Monday night to facilitate a workshop for the Oak Harbor School District board, offering his wisdom, guidance and advice on how to proceed in replacing Rick Schulte as the school district's superintendent.

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Thu May 09, 2013

Men's Journal

A Pilot's Son, Flying Solo

As fathers go, Commander Peter Rodrick was a boyhood fantasy dashing, decorated, able to land a jet on a tiny aircraft-carrier flight deck.

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Wed May 08, 2013

Whidbey News-Times

Driver nearly runs down Holland Happening vendors with Toyota

An Oak Harbor man crashed his car through barriers during the city's Holland Happening event earlier this month, forcing pedestrians to flee as he drove past vendor tents on the closed-off road, according to court documents.

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Whidbey News-Times

NAS Whidbey schedules oil spill response drill for May 9

The drill will be conducted May 9 by the Navy, Coast Guard and Washington State Department of Ecology off Whidbey Island Naval Air Station's Seaplane Base in Oak Harbor.

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Tue May 07, 2013

South Whidbey Record

County's decision to limit Oak Harbor growth stands

Island County prevailed once again in litigation over the City of Oak Harbor's efforts to expand its western boundaries.

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Mon May 06, 2013

Whidbey News-Times

'It's what I do': Artist giving works to Oak Harbor

It's taken a couple of years of negotiating, but North Whidbey artist Wayne Lewis may soon send his 3-foot clay sculpture of a Native American to be cast in bronze.

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Examiner.com

Midway Florist in Oak Harbor has quality, fresh flowers and floral displays

Rob McGowen had been involved with flowers for his whole adult life. He says, "It's what I love to do." As a young person, his first significant job was working in a florist shop.

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Wed May 01, 2013

South Whidbey Record

Deputies arrest suspected burglar, Scatchet Head resident

Island County Sheriff Mark Brown asked for the community's help last week in locating Robert Dean Burns, who was wanted on warrants out of Island County, Oak Harbor and Renton.

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Tue Apr 30, 2013

Whidbey News-Times

Judge sides with county on Oh Uga lawsuit

WEAN spokesman Steve Erickson spoke out on the issue between City of Oak Harbor and Island County, saying expansion of the UGA would be bad for the environment and Swan Lake.

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HeraldNet

So all can enjoy: Volunteers team with AmeriCorps staff to spruce up parks

Barbara Shaw or Oak Harbor paints stripper onto the roof of a Civilian Conservation Corps 1930s picnic shelter at Bowman Bay in Deception Pass.

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Whidbey News-Times

Consider running for office; Filing Week is May 13-17 | Editorial

A number of local offices are up for election this year, and the time to step up and be part of a solution is just around the corner.

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Mon Apr 29, 2013

Whidbey News-Times

Tavern wants city of Oak Harbor to compensate for biz losses

Swinomish Tribal Community may not be alone in suing the City of Oak Harbor over the inadvertent discovery of Native American remains during the 2011 Pioneer Way project.

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Whidbey News-Times

Longtime Oak Harbor business Island Drug sets up at new location, opens Monday

As the front end manager of Island Drug, she's been tasked with leading a smooth transition between the current store site on Pioneer Way and the new building on State Highway 20 that opens to the public Monday morning.

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Fri Apr 26, 2013

The Olympian

Senate OKs 401(k)-style pension plans for state employees

A controversial plan to let future state employees opt into a 401 style pension plans – instead of fixed-payment pensions that most receive today – won passage in the state Senate by a narrow vote of 25 to 22 on Thursday.

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Thu Apr 25, 2013

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Senate bill would allow discrimination against gays

Businesses in Washington would get the right to refuse services to gay and lesbian customers if "providing those goods or services" conflicts with the religious or philosophical beliefs of the business owner, under a bill introduced Thursday in the state Senate.

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