While Oak Harbor leaders are making important decisions about infrastructure, taxes and the future of the marina, complaints about sticky tape garnered the most public comments during a city council meeting last week.

Nearly a dozen tennis players sent in public comment to complain that pickleball players befouled Sumner Park courts by gluing down tape about two months ago. The tennis players want the city to remove the tape residue and find alternative courts for the over-enthusiastic picklers.

In fact, resident Howard Strickland said the residue is “simple vandalism” and urged police to press charges against the sticky tape “tortfeasors.”

“Do not reward this criminal action,” he wrote.

Even after the tapes were removed, the tacky glue that made up the pickleball court lines has rende

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