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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

As the Paradigm Shifts | Self-Deprivation

By Rosie Kuhn|2025-10-11T14:08:51-07:00October 11th, 2025|1 Comment

USPS rule changes may complicate mail-in voting, risking late ballots in November election

By News Source|2025-10-10T15:04:13-07:00October 11th, 2025|Comments Off

Sheriff’s Report | October 1 – 7, 2025

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

WSF expects service disruptions on all routes this evening

By News Source|2025-10-10T14:48:44-07:00October 10th, 2025|Comments Off

Marineland marine park threatening to kill 30 whales

By News Source|2025-10-10T14:41:07-07:00October 10th, 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

WSF Weekly Update | ‘You can’t fire a cannon out of a canoe’

By News Source|2025-10-10T12:21:48-07:00October 10th, 2025|Comments Off

San Juan County policy change would streamline energy projects

By News Source|2025-10-09T16:45:12-07:00October 10th, 2025|1 Comment

Occam’s Razor | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson

By S. C. Watson|2025-10-08T16:04:52-07:00October 10th, 2025|Comments Off

This is Actually Good | Tahini Cauliflower recipe

By Rachel Factor|2025-10-09T16:40:02-07:00October 9th, 2025|Comments Off

News Brief | Canada’s Marineland ‘threatens to euthanise 30 beluga whales’

By News Source|2025-10-09T15:51:22-07:00October 9th, 2025|Comments Off

Vehicle reservations for winter sailing season open Tuesday, Oct. 28 at 10am

By News Source|2025-10-09T14:32:45-07:00October 9th, 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

Islanders help shape county climate resilience plan

By News Source|2025-10-08T12:10:19-07:00October 8th, 2025|2 Comments

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

News Brief | Orcas islander Jas Ikeda remains in an Israeli prison

By News Source|2025-10-06T14:15:12-07:00October 6th, 2025|Comments Off

No jurors needed for October 6-10

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

No Place Like Loam | A strawberry tree grows in Seattle: Rediscovering an ancient evergreen

By Alex Tamaya-Wolf|2025-10-06T14:47:45-07:00October 6th, 2025|1 Comment

Occam’s Razor | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson

By S. C. Watson|2025-10-06T18:19:53-07:00October 6th, 2025|1 Comment

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

Midnight Mutterings | Florynce Kennedy

By Lin McNulty|2025-10-04T11:36:08-07:00October 4th, 2025|Comments Off

Larsen releases statement on Trump administration raising costs by cancelling clean energy projects

By News Source|2025-10-03T15:36:55-07:00October 4th, 2025|Comments Off

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

Occam’s Razor | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson

By S. C. Watson|2025-10-02T16:46:55-07:00October 3rd, 2025|Comments Off

Israeli military stops nearly all boats in aid flotilla, sparking global protests

By News Source|2025-10-03T14:11:26-07:00October 2nd, 2025|1 Comment

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

Larsen releases statement on government shutdown

By News Source|2025-10-02T10:10:47-07:00October 2nd, 2025|1 Comment

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

ALL ROUTES | Fare changes begin Wednesday, Oct. 1

By News Source|2025-10-01T13:27:55-07:00October 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

News Brief | Marine experts save sea lion from plastic strap around neck

By News Source|2025-09-30T13:59:36-07:00September 30th, 2025|Comments Off

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

Larsen Op-Ed | Republicans in Congress are doubling down on a health care crisis of their own making

By News Source|2025-09-29T16:53:07-07:00September 30th, 2025|Comments Off

News Brief | Oregon says ‘no’ to troop deployment, files suit

By News Source|2025-09-29T15:03:21-07:00September 29th, 2025|1 Comment

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

No Place Like Loam | Growing figs in the Pacific Northwest

By Alex Tamaya-Wolf|2025-09-29T12:15:18-07:00September 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

News Brief | Oregon says ‘no’ to troop deployment, files suit

By News Source|2025-09-28T15:17:35-07:00September 28th, 2025|2 Comments

Center for Whale Research update on J42 and J64

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

News Brief | Extended fall sailing schedule for Anacortes/San Juan Islands route returns after 20 years

By News Source|2025-09-28T13:05:09-07:00September 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

News Brief | Trump sending troops to Portland, Oregon

By News Source|2025-09-27T12:15:30-07:00September 27th, 2025|1 Comment