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Include a few extra items with your own groceries next weekend. Leadership Greensboro Seniors will be outside local grocery stores waiting for every can of tuna or beef stew, and every bag of dry beans or rice you can pile in their carts. Representing more than 50 congregations in the city, the group is conducting its semi-annual nonperishable food drive next Friday and Saturday to benefit Greensboro Urban Ministry and the hungry in the community.

It is often devastating to LGBT people to have their faith used as a weapon against us   -Harry Knox

 

The 42-inch storm water outfall replacement project is on hold until next year, City Engineer Eric Johnston announced at a recent public works standing committee meeting. Oak Harbor Bay's marine environment has taken its toll of the 40-plus-year-old pipe. A mixture of high tide, wind, rain and sand caused extreme erosion, which dramatically shortened the pipe and increased the amount of city manpower needed to clear the outfall to prevent flooding along Highway 20.

That’s also the heavy-use period   -Eric Johnston

 

Oak Harbor's Pioneer Way Project was assigned a new project manager, by default. Former project manager Mick Munken left Perteet, the city-contracted design consulting firm, to work for another company. He's been replaced with Dan Hansen, a senior Perteet engineer with family ties to Whidbey Island, said City Engineer Eric Johnston.

Perteet has refined the design and continues to refine it   -Eric Johnston

 

Westpac 'defector' reveals his plans to set things right. Eric Johnston reports. Heading into ANZ's Melbourne headquarters for the first time on a warm November morning last year, Phil Chronican realised there was a problem.

I had to take the first three blue ties I saw   -Phil Chronican

 

The Washington State Department of Transportation will re-evluate the speed limits along Highway 20 in Oak Harbor, announced City Engineer Eric Johnston at Tuesday's City Council meeting. Johnston estimates the study will take about six to nine month. There was no specific driving force behind the city's request for the speed limit review, he said, adding that a recent incident involving a SUV and pedestrian had nothing to do with the inquiry because speed wasn't a factor.  

The Washington State Department of Transportation will re-evluate the speed limits along Highway 20 in Oak Harbor, announced City Engineer Eric Johnston at Tuesday's City Council meeting. Johnston estimates the study will take about six to nine month. There was no specific driving force behind the city's request for the speed limit review, he said, adding that a recent incident involving a SUV and pedestrian had nothing to do with the inquiry because speed wasn't a factor.

It’s just a good idea to look at it every so often   -Eric Johnston

 

A $339,925 grant from the Washington State Department of Transportation will cover new enhanced street crossings to improve school children's safety during their commutes to and from school. City Engineer Eric Johnston said the grant encompasses the "three E's" of traffic safety: engineering, education and enforcement. The grant will fund eight state-approved crosswalks in Oak Harbor, said Johnson.

The most effective way to get compliance in the school zone is enforcement   -Eric Johnston

 

Two Batavia men are facing drug charges. After executing search warrants, law enforcement officials say they discovered a dismantled meth lab in a Ross Street apartment. 33-year-old Warren Cotten and 31-year-old Eric Johnston were both arrested in connection with the raid. Inside the apartment officers say they found meth in various stages of production and chemicals needed to make the drug.  

Carrabelle's Ray Messer always knew his deer dogs had a good set of noses. What he didn't know was that they could handle a shotgun, too. On the morning of Jan. 26, Messer and his brother, Pleas, and Ray's son, Michael, were out hunting north of Carrabelle, up Highway 67, in Liberty County.

They had laid a Remington 870, a 12-gauge pump shotgun, on the ground   -Eric Johnston

 

The Snowline Joint Unified School District Governing Board took action Tuesday night to lay off 15 teachers and roll out fees charging parents for busing to and from school beginning this fall. The moves are among a slew of cost-cutting measures aimed at saving more than $8 million in the 2010-11 budget amid state cuts and declining enrollment, according to district officials. Parents will now have to pay $350 for one year of transportation for one child, with a sliding fee schedule offering slightly