Here’s a thought…
“Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.”
GIORGOS SEFERIS
Student Art Exhibit opening Friday, April 25
||| FROM THE A-OK TEAM ||| You are invited! Come enjoy the Annual Student Art Exhibit Opening Friday, April 25th 4:30 - 6:00pm Orcas Center Featuring Orcas Island Elementary, Middle and High School artwork. High School presentations start at
LWVSJ Observer Corps Notes | San Juan County Council April 22, 2025
||| FROM NECIA QUAST for LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS ||| The council proclaimed May 1 Law Day and the month of May as Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. A new parks
Jurors excused Monday, April 28 through Friday, May 2
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| For the jury period beginning Monday, April 28th through Friday, May 2nd, all jurors are excused. Thank you.
Wildfire smoke continues to impact local air quality
Skagit, Whatcom counties, Bellingham among cleanest areas for ozone ||| FROM NORTHWEST CLEAN AIR AGENCY ||| Wildfire smoke that smothered Washington communities at times with harmful fine particles in recent summers also impacted local air
The best protection against measles
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Measles cases continue to increase throughout the United States. But there is a way to protect yourself, your family, and your community. The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR)
Notice of upcoming special meeting of Fire Commission
||| FROM KEITH LIGHT for ORCAS FIRE & RESCUE ||| San Juan County Fire Protection District #2, Board of Fire Commissioners Special Meeting | Friday, 04/25/2025, 5:30PM In person: 45 Lavender Lane, Eastsound, WA By
An Evening with David Roth
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Let’s honor and celebrate our home planet
Special Upcoming Events are Friday the 25th and Saturday the 26th ||| FROM SAN JUAN MAKERS GUILD ||| Voice of the Earth, Fri. 25th Native flute and folk music, Poetry, and Coast Salish Storytelling at
Health Care District Board to meet tomorrow
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND HEALTH CARE DISTRICT BOARD ||| The Orcas Island Health Care District Board will hold a Special Board Meeting on Thursday, April 24th, 2025 from 5:00 - 7:00 PM in the Orcas Island Community
LWVSJ Observer Corps*: County Council April 21, 2025
||| FROM NECIA QUAST for LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS ||| During public comment the president of the San Juan Building Association spoke of improving the past adversarial relationship with the Department of Community Development. In
Free Wildfire Readiness event – May 10 – 1-3pm
May is National Wildfire Preparedness Month ||| FROM BEN LUNA for ORCAS ISLAND FIRE & RESCUE ||| Please join Orcas Island Fire and Rescue (OIFR), the Washington State Department of Natural Resources and San Juan
Due Next Week | Real and personal property taxes due April 30
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County Treasurer, Rhonda Pederson, would like to remind county property owners that the first half of property taxes and personal property taxes are due and payable
Loyalty to the Earth | There is no room for more
If there is a lot, we take a lot; if there is a little, we take it all. — Lyle Lewis, Racing to Extinction ||| LOYALTY TO THE EARTH by ELISABETH ROBSON ||| We are captives
Conservation Land Bank opens Watmough Head trail on Lopez Island
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Saturday, May 3, join commissioners and staff from the Land Bank and Bureau of Land Management as we celebrate opening the new trail from Watmough Bay to Watmough
Fleabag from National Theatre Live at Orcas Center
||| FROM BETHANY MARIE for ORCAS CENTER ||| Orcas Center brings Fleabag, the acclaimed one-woman show written and performed by the extraordinary Phoebe Waller-Bridge to the big screen on Wednesday, April 30 at 7pm as
Orcas Island Film Festival presents the Spring Mini Fest
||| FROM DONNA LASLO for ORCAS ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL ||| The Orcas Island Film Festival (OIFF) is thrilled to announce the return of its Spring Mini Fest happening April 25–27, 2025 at the Sea View
