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
EWUA meetings
||| FROM DAN BURKE for EASTSOUND WATER USERS ASSOCIATION ||| Eastsound Water Users Association is a service-oriented association whose goal is to utilize all available resources to ensure that an adequate and consistent supply of
Letter to Editor | Kari McVeigh gets my vote
||| FROM SCOTT BOYE ||| Kari McVeigh has decades of experience working as a public servant for a variety of school districts. She will hit the ground running with expertise in budget and finance, personnel,
Shawna Franklin featured artist at Artworks
||| FROM B.J. ARNOLD for ORCAS ISLAND ARTWORKS ||| Orcas Island Artworks is pleased to announce Shawna Franklin as the Featured Artist for the Month of June. “My intention is to capture an idea or
Public Notice | Orcas Island School District #137
||| FROM SUZANNA SMITH for ORCAS ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT ||| As required by RCW 28A.505.050 and RCW 28A.505.060, notice is hereby given that the Orcas Island School District No. 137 will be completing the 2024-25
GO FUND ME | Support Brian’s road to recovery
||| FROM JENNIFER LEHR ||| In a moment, life can turn from Healthy…to HELL, and that's precisely what happened to Islander Brian Milligan on May 4th. Brian was visiting Poland when he was involved in a horrific motorcycle
4th July Events
||| FROM CAREY ESKRIDGE for CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ||| The Orcas Island Chamber of Commerce is thrilled to announce this year’s Fourth of July Weekend schedule of events. This year’s theme is "All Together Now"
Shaw Island community meeting recap
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County held a community meeting on Shaw Island June 3, 2024 to discuss a possible property purchase for the Public Works Department. The meeting was attended
Sheriff’s Report | May 29 – June 4, 2024
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ||| WEDNESDAY, MAY 29 24-003096 DUI 13:25:32 05/29/24 The Sheriff's Office responded to a single vehicle collision. The driver was possibly having a medical issue and was released
Report of downed aircraft in San Juan Channel
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ||| The San Juan County Sheriff’s Office, along with personnel from the US Coast Guard and the WA Department of Fish & Wildlife (DWFW), are responding to a
William Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut, ID’d as pilot in San Juan Islands plane crash
||| FROM FOX13SEATTLE ||| Retired American astronaut William Anders, who was a member of the Apollo 8 crew, has been identified as the pilot inside the plane that crashed in the waters off the San Juan
Meet Orcas County Council candidates
||| FROM CINDY CARTER ||| There will be a Townhall Meeting to meet the County Council Candidates on Orcas Island at the Eastsound Firestation on Wednesday, June 26th at 6:30 pm. Candidates will introduce themselves
San Juan County now accepting 2024 Home Fund applications
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County Health & Community Services released a Notice of Funds Available (NOFA) for the Home Fund program’s 2024 funding round. Responses will be accepted through July
OICF announces new Executive Director
||| FROM HILARY CANTY for ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ||| The Orcas Island Community Foundation Board of Trustees is delighted to announce the selection of Lindsay Jennings as the next Executive Director of OICF, following
Island Ways | SSA crews: Staffing levels a “recipe for disaster”
||| FROM NANTUCKET INQUIRER AND MIRROR ||| Orcas and Nantucket Islands are each roughly the same size and the same distance off their respective coasts. We share the same concerns about the high cost of
Ukulele Kanikipila
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Experience the joy of making music at Ukulele Kanikipila, Hawaiian for "play music," every Monday from 1 to 3 pm at Orcas Senior Center. This gathering
WSF Weekly Report | Things are looking electric
||| FROM STEVE NEVEY for WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES ||| We’ve hit an exciting milestone in our electrification efforts with the launch of a national contracting process to build five new hybrid-electric ferries. Aside from greatly lowering our
