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Student election results announced at Orcas Christian High School

By Community|2025-10-13T13:54:31-07:00October 13th, 2025|1 Comment

Guest Opinion | Celebrating National Coming Out Day

By Community|2025-10-13T13:34:51-07:00October 13th, 2025|1 Comment

Create comfort with fidget quilts at Orcas Senior Center

By Community|2025-10-12T12:59:33-07:00October 12th, 2025|Comments Off

Plan now for this Community Thanksgiving Potluck Dinner

By Community|2025-10-12T12:46:14-07:00October 12th, 2025|Comments Off

Bailer Hill Rd to fully close on Tues. Oct 14 as project enters final construction phase

By Community|2025-10-11T14:54:41-07:00October 12th, 2025|Comments Off

Fian and Orcas Dance Collective to host Halloween Masquerade

By Community|2025-10-11T15:47:53-07:00October 12th, 2025|Comments Off

Medicare Open Enrollment | Get help navigating your options

By Community|2025-10-12T12:53:37-07:00October 12th, 2025|Comments Off

Madrona Institute announces 2025 RFPs for San Juan Islands Stewardship Fund Grants

By Community|2025-10-11T15:15:07-07:00October 11th, 2025|Comments Off

Register NOW for Mason Bee Cocoon Harvesting and Orcas Isle Cider Tasting

By Community|2025-10-11T14:46:28-07:00October 11th, 2025|Comments Off

Sheriff’s Report | October 1 – 7, 2025

By Community|2025-10-10T16:10:14-07:00October 11th, 2025|Comments Off

Guest Opinion | Vote NO on the Orcas Fire District bond proposition 1

By Community|2025-10-10T14:21:19-07:00October 10th, 2025|5 Comments

Land Bank’s fall newsletter is here

By Community|2025-10-10T14:11:58-07:00October 10th, 2025|Comments Off

Darvill’s launches first-ever drop-in book club

By Community|2025-10-10T12:35:19-07:00October 10th, 2025|Comments Off

Be an Early Bird | Pay your property taxes before Oct 31

By Community|2025-10-09T14:10:11-07:00October 9th, 2025|Comments Off

Upcoming at Orcas Center: Community art show ‘The Art of Recycling’

By Community|2025-10-09T13:27:20-07:00October 9th, 2025|Comments Off

Federal shutdown impacts on local public health

By Community|2025-10-09T11:20:55-07:00October 9th, 2025|Comments Off

Project updates from San Juan County Conservation Land Bank

By Community|2025-10-09T11:15:01-07:00October 9th, 2025|Comments Off

We can streamline energy projects with San Juan County policy change

By Community|2025-10-08T15:24:26-07:00October 8th, 2025|1 Comment

Fall 2025 Great Islands Clean-Up collects over 1,300 pounds of litter across San Juan County

By Community|2025-10-08T15:13:17-07:00October 8th, 2025|Comments Off

CWR encounters T60 brothers in Swanson Channel

By Community|2025-10-08T11:47:17-07:00October 8th, 2025|Comments Off

Free Immunization Clinics | Protect your child against influenza, COVID

By Community|2025-10-08T10:50:18-07:00October 8th, 2025|Comments Off

Lopez family returns home from SJI to find house burned

By Community|2025-10-08T10:50:59-07:00October 8th, 2025|1 Comment

Lopez Island in need of a community conversation: demographic and affordability

By Community|2025-10-08T10:07:17-07:00October 8th, 2025|3 Comments

Burn permits now open in San Juan County

By Community|2025-10-07T16:07:49-07:00October 7th, 2025|Comments Off

No jurors needed for October 13-17

By Community|2025-10-07T14:28:59-07:00October 7th, 2025|Comments Off

Assessor sends 2025 ‘Change of Value’ notices

By Community|2025-10-07T14:14:07-07:00October 7th, 2025|Comments Off

In Memoriam | D. D. Glaze, 1935 – 2025

By Community|2025-10-07T14:00:23-07:00October 7th, 2025|Comments Off

Orcas Island Education Foundation announces annual fundraiser

By Community|2025-10-07T13:35:43-07:00October 7th, 2025|Comments Off

Tumble playgroup at Odd Fellows Hall

By Community|2025-10-07T13:26:45-07:00October 7th, 2025|Comments Off

Council sets priorities for 20206-27 biennial budget amidst funding challenges

By Community|2025-10-07T13:16:46-07:00October 7th, 2025|Comments Off

OIFR seeks community properties for firefighter training

By Community|2025-10-06T18:17:08-07:00October 7th, 2025|Comments Off

No jurors needed for October 6-10

By Community|2025-10-06T13:59:27-07:00October 6th, 2025|Comments Off

OPALCO renewable energy community meetings recap

By Community|2025-10-06T13:15:31-07:00October 6th, 2025|Comments Off

Conservation Land Bank acquires 225-acre school trust land parcel on Blakely Island

By Community|2025-10-06T13:04:43-07:00October 6th, 2025|Comments Off

J36 and J Pod documented off San Juan Island

By Community|2025-10-06T12:23:08-07:00October 6th, 2025|Comments Off

Winter Artisan Market accepting applications for artists, artisans

By Community|2025-10-05T13:26:18-07:00October 5th, 2025|Comments Off

The Countdown Is On | Get your Friday Harbor Film Festival 2025 pass

By Community|2025-10-05T13:13:58-07:00October 5th, 2025|Comments Off

Senior Center | Where fun meets health

By Community|2025-10-05T12:50:09-07:00October 5th, 2025|Comments Off

2025 San Juan County WSU Master Gardeners Garden Workshop Series

By Community|2025-10-05T12:32:30-07:00October 5th, 2025|Comments Off

NYT bestselling author Ben Clanton at Library

By Community|2025-10-04T13:09:58-07:00October 5th, 2025|Comments Off

Guest Opinion | AI’s dirty secret

By Community|2025-10-04T13:20:03-07:00October 4th, 2025|5 Comments

Port Commission approves ‘better – not bigger’ option for airport

By Community|2025-10-03T15:51:42-07:00October 4th, 2025|5 Comments

Sheriff’s Report | September 24 – 30, 2025

By Community|2025-10-03T16:17:59-07:00October 4th, 2025|Comments Off

Power of Community | Orcas Island raises $65,000 in September for Resource Center services

By Community|2025-10-03T15:29:11-07:00October 3rd, 2025|Comments Off

Larsen releases statement on Israeli detention of Orcas resident, Jasmine Ikeda

By Community|2025-10-03T14:23:00-07:00October 3rd, 2025|1 Comment

Looking into the horizon of OICF’s future

By Community|2025-10-03T14:09:56-07:00October 3rd, 2025|2 Comments

Orcas Island Fire & Rescue equips new EMTs with life-saving AEDs

By Community|2025-10-03T13:37:23-07:00October 3rd, 2025|Comments Off

Worm composting workshops coming up at The Exchange

By Community|2025-10-03T13:16:57-07:00October 3rd, 2025|Comments Off

Letter to Editor | Chip, chip hooray

By Community|2025-10-03T12:46:38-07:00October 3rd, 2025|Comments Off

Orcas resident illegally detained by Israeli military

By Community|2025-10-02T15:18:06-07:00October 2nd, 2025|1 Comment

Coming to Grange | ATOI presents ‘Orcas Sings B’way’

By Community|2025-10-03T15:29:42-07:00October 2nd, 2025|Comments Off

CWR documents fantastic encounter with J Pod

By Community|2025-10-02T11:35:47-07:00October 2nd, 2025|Comments Off

Artworks October featured artist – Pam Jenkins

By Community|2025-10-02T10:37:26-07:00October 2nd, 2025|Comments Off

Council to review 2025 Comp Plan update at series of fall meetings

By Community|2025-10-02T10:28:12-07:00October 2nd, 2025|Comments Off

Community leaders to share findings on Orcas Island healthcare needs

By Community|2025-10-02T09:46:45-07:00October 2nd, 2025|Comments Off

Orcas Center is ready to rock and roll

By Community|2025-10-02T09:24:02-07:00October 2nd, 2025|Comments Off

Eastsound business seeks new owner

By Community|2025-10-01T16:50:31-07:00October 1st, 2025|2 Comments

Orcas Island Garden Club presents Growing Anemones, Ranunculus, and Peonies by Anne Long

By Community|2025-10-01T16:52:13-07:00October 1st, 2025|Comments Off

The Kitchen is coming back to Odd Fellows

By Community|2025-10-01T15:28:28-07:00October 1st, 2025|Comments Off

County seeks proposals for behavioral health peer support program

By Community|2025-10-01T14:52:17-07:00October 1st, 2025|Comments Off

Islands’ Oil Spill Association to celebrate 40th Anniversary on October 23

By Community|2025-10-01T14:46:10-07:00October 1st, 2025|Comments Off

Rosario Strait tidal energy project update from OPALCO

By Community|2025-10-01T14:13:01-07:00October 1st, 2025|2 Comments

Test your earthquake preparedness on October 16

By Community|2025-10-01T13:34:57-07:00October 1st, 2025|Comments Off

Fall is Here | Let’s check your heat sources and smoke & CO detectors

By Community|2025-10-01T13:22:35-07:00October 1st, 2025|Comments Off

All beaches in San Juan County closed to recreational shellfish harvesting

By Community|2025-10-02T09:27:13-07:00September 30th, 2025|Comments Off

Letter to Editor | Will County Council stand by its proclamation on rights of southern residents?

By Community|2025-09-30T15:48:33-07:00September 30th, 2025|1 Comment

Ladies of Airhawks Series | Mindy Nunez

By Community|2025-09-30T13:49:19-07:00September 30th, 2025|2 Comments

CWR encounters J and L Pod off San Juan Island

By Community|2025-09-30T12:05:23-07:00September 30th, 2025|Comments Off

Two Orcas Island Land Bank preserves are now re-open

By Community|2025-09-30T11:55:11-07:00September 30th, 2025|2 Comments

Time to Batten Down the Hatches | Preparing your vessel for fall and winter

By Community|2025-09-30T11:33:12-07:00September 30th, 2025|Comments Off

Orcas Center commissions microgrid, securing community resilience

By Community|2025-09-29T14:52:00-07:00September 29th, 2025|2 Comments

Lopez Island in need of financial health check, community conversation

By Community|2025-09-29T14:04:44-07:00September 29th, 2025|2 Comments

Kids Got Talent is back for another year of joy and community

By Community|2025-09-29T14:55:03-07:00September 29th, 2025|Comments Off

Center for Whale Research update on J42 and J64

By Community|2025-09-28T13:14:38-07:00September 28th, 2025|Comments Off

New piece installed at SJI Sculpture Park

By Community|2025-09-27T14:34:59-07:00September 28th, 2025|Comments Off

Drumming, needlework, watercolors at Orcas Senior Center

By Community|2025-09-27T14:22:48-07:00September 28th, 2025|Comments Off

Community leaders to share findings on Orcas Island health care needs

By Community|2025-09-27T12:38:45-07:00September 28th, 2025|Comments Off

Orcas Island Fire & Rescue launches new community website

By Community|2025-09-27T13:44:57-07:00September 27th, 2025|Comments Off

Threads of Inspiration | A quilting exhibition at Orcas Senior Center

By Community|2025-09-27T13:20:43-07:00September 27th, 2025|Comments Off

Whale Museum announces new Salish Sea Explorer Kit Program

By Community|2025-09-27T12:28:33-07:00September 27th, 2025|Comments Off

Strum along with the Legacy Ukulele Ensemble and Peter Luongo

By Community|2025-09-27T13:32:35-07:00September 27th, 2025|Comments Off

Sheriff’s Report | September 17 – 23, 2025

By Community|2025-09-26T15:53:45-07:00September 27th, 2025|Comments Off

Grand re-opening of two Orcas Island preserves

By Community|2025-09-26T14:33:51-07:00September 26th, 2025|Comments Off

Orcas Christian kicks off this year’s first Week of Worship

By Community|2025-09-26T14:21:23-07:00September 26th, 2025|Comments Off

Guest Opinion | Should Orcas Island (and SJC communities) have public transit?

By Community|2025-09-26T13:53:12-07:00September 26th, 2025|12 Comments

Grant funded Community Health Project Manager role – accepting applications until September 30

By Community|2025-09-25T13:57:14-07:00September 25th, 2025|Comments Off

Check out this unique blend of literature and lore about the San Juan Islands

By Community|2025-09-25T13:38:35-07:00September 25th, 2025|Comments Off

Meeting Recap | Community discusses sheriff substation move on Lopez with officials, staff

By Community|2025-09-25T13:09:27-07:00September 25th, 2025|Comments Off

County issues Hispanic Heritage Month proclamation, supported by new language access plan

By Community|2025-09-25T13:00:10-07:00September 25th, 2025|Comments Off

Southern residents return to the Salish Sea

By Community|2025-09-24T12:45:25-07:00September 24th, 2025|Comments Off

Keynote speaker Thor Hansen leads 2025 Annual Garden Workshop Series

By Community|2025-09-24T12:18:12-07:00September 24th, 2025|Comments Off

PeaceHealth Family Medicine hosting flu shot clinics in October

By Community|2025-09-24T11:15:49-07:00September 24th, 2025|Comments Off

No Place Like Loam | Growing olives in the Pacific Northwest

By Community|2025-09-24T10:52:33-07:00September 24th, 2025|Comments Off

Free noxious weed disposal program ends Sept. 30

By Community|2025-09-24T10:28:53-07:00September 24th, 2025|Comments Off

LWVSJ Observer Corps | County Council September 23, 2025

By Community|2025-09-24T10:17:48-07:00September 24th, 2025|Comments Off

Tickets now available for Empty Bowls Sunday Supper

By Community|2025-09-23T15:15:57-07:00September 24th, 2025|Comments Off

Have a garden question? Ask an Orcas Master Gardener

By Community|2025-09-23T15:02:40-07:00September 23rd, 2025|Comments Off

Health Care District schedules upcoming board meeting

By Community|2025-09-23T14:44:12-07:00September 23rd, 2025|Comments Off

Jurors for 9/29 – 10/3 are excused

By Community|2025-09-23T14:36:41-07:00September 23rd, 2025|Comments Off

Memorial service for Judy Turksel

By Community|2025-09-23T14:14:31-07:00September 23rd, 2025|Comments Off

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