WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: A member of the Oak Harbor City Council is now at the head of the Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce.
Eric Marshall
WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: Oak Harbor officials’ plan to adopt a business and occupation tax to help fund marina dredging, the construction of a marina breakwater and a city recreation center fell apart during vigorous debate at a city council meeting Tuesday.
CITY OF OAK HARBOR: Video recording of the May 20, 2025 city council meeting, including discussion of a proposed business & occupation tax.
WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: The city of Oak Harbor is looking at potentially changing the way it responds to emergencies.
WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: The Oak Harbor City Council granted a developer a two-year extension of an agreement related to a large-scale housing development on the hillside above the Safeway and Walmart.
WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: As the Oak Harbor City Council prepares to make a vote on the proposed business and occupation — or B&O — tax next month, Deputy City Administrator and Finance Director David Goldman returned to the council chambers with a new option.
3-253-2025 City of Oak Harbor Council Workshop
WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: What started off as an unusually intense rivalry between two mayoral candidates degenerated into a battle of allegations and Facebook posts fought from opposite sides of the country.